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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"theory of rights"”.
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The Theory of Rights of Bartolomé de Las Casas: A dialogue between Las Casas and Locke as forerunners of human rights
… (1484-1566) has been described as a “forerunner” of a distinctly Latin American tradition of human rights, but little attention has been paid to the particular features of his theory of rights which are said to have inaugurated this tradition. To draw out the distinctiveness of his political …
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Security interests with rights of use: an English law and comparative analysis
This thesis advances a theory of rights of use in intermediated securities in English private law. The term ‘right of use’ refers to the right of a creditor, usually a financial institution, to dispose of a customer’s securities outright, prior to any default, in exchange for a promise to deliver …
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Towards a theory of animal rights: Adventures in metaphysics and morals
At this time, we have a century of jurisprudential and philosophical discussions on the metaphysical nature of rights. We have almost half a century of moral theory arguing for the moral rights of animals. Surprisingly, these two literatures have not intersected much. This leaves open whether the …
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Privacy vs. Technology: What privacy rights do we have and how can we protect these rights?
This thesis seeks to explain what privacy rights we have and how we can protect them, given the recent advances in technology, most notably the growth in the use of the interest. Following an introductory chapter which discussing the effects of technology on privacy. Chapter Two sets out an …
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The ethics of animal experimentation: the Littlewood report
The Littlewood Committee's defence of a laissez-faire approach to animal experimentation is ethically indefensible on grounds that non-human animals are sentient, autonomous beings who express an acute interest in their continued existence and demonstrate an aversion to the frustration of their …
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Environmental Rights
In this thesis I address the claim that theories of moral rights are incompatible with environmental concerns. This claim is often made on the grounds that rights are too individualistic and human-centred. I attempt to answer this, not on the grounds that it misrepresents all theories of rights or …
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An immanent critique of the African regional human rights system: Theory, practice and reforms
This thesis is an immanent critique of the African human rights system. It, therefore, examines the practice of human rights as set by the African people as opposed to purely external transcendental forms of critique. This is carried out by studying the theory of the African regional human rights …
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Essays on Consent
This thesis is comprised of four substantive essays on consent. More specifically, they concern individual permissive consent—that is to say, consent by which one person intentionally and directly gives another person moral or legal permission to perform an action. What follows is a brief outline …
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As One United People: An Inclusive Communitarian Approach to Constitutional Rights in Singapore
Despite having a written Constitution, Article 4 of which states that it is the ‘supreme law’ of the nation and which confers strike down powers on the courts, there has never been a single successful constitutional rights challenge to legislation and executive orders in Singapore’s 54 years of …
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Semantic deontic modeling and text classification for supporting automated environmental compliance checking in construction
… industry refers to checking the conformance of a process, plan, document, design, or action to applicable norms (regulatory norms, contractual norms, and advisory practices). Manual compliance checking has been time-intensive, resource-consuming, and error-prone. Automated compliance checking …