A Debate Over Rights

• Rights are a central debate in a number of major disciplines, including politics, law and philosophy
• The three authors of this volume are all well-respected in the field of legal theory and philosophy
• This book is written in the unusual format of a three-way-debate where each author examines and argues with the positions taken by the other two
• This book clarifies and illuminates many contemporary contentious political disputes, and does so in a way that will interest a readership wider than those who are usually interested in legal and political philosophy

Readership: Academics in the fields of jurisprudence or legal philosophy, moral philosophy and ethics, political theory, political sceience and sociology will be interested in purchasing this book.

Matthew Kramer, Lecturer in Jurisprudence and Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, Nigel Simmonds, Reader in Jurisprudence and Fellow in Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Hillel Steiner, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Manchester

"the authors expound their positions with admirable vigor and clarity. This work will certainly be of significant interest to anyone concerned with the Hohfeldian jural framework, the "Interest" and "Will" theories of Rights, on the rival analytic and evaluative approaches to the philosophical foundations of rights theory. It is, then, a more than welcome addition to our ongoing "debate over rights"" - Jack Wade Nowlin, Dept. of Politics, Princeton University

Matthew H. Kramer: Preface
Matthew H. Kramer: Introduction
Matthew H. Kramer: Rights Without Trimmings
1: Setting the Hohfeldian Table
2: Rights Without Trimmings
Appendix: Getting Hohfeld Right
N. E. Simmonds: Rights at the Cutting Edge
1: Background
2: The Fundamental Issues
3: Hohfeld and the Fragmentation of Rights
4: Hohfeld and the Kantians
5: The Interest Theory of Rights
6: The Modern Will Theory
Hillel Steiner: Working Rights
1: Preliminary Intuitions about Rights
2: From Hohfeld to Hart: The Modern Will Theory
3: Some Apparent Problems with the Will Theory
4: From Hart to Kant: The Classical Will Theory (Partly) Redeemed
5: Some Real Problems with the Interest Theory
Index