Content and Competence : A Descriptive Approach to the Concept of Rights / Jakob Weissinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weissinger, Jakob, 1986- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Mohr Siebeck, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Just what is a right? Jakob Weissinger approaches this central problem of jurisprudence by critically examining the purpose of such normative concepts and carefully analysing the fundamental elements of normative practice like actions, decisions, the logic of norms and values as well as the plurality of normative practice. Interlinking the insights won, he outlines a stand-alone theory of rights which emphasises the empowering dimension of rights in the process of justifying (legal) rules. Not only does he question well-established theories, such as Hohfeld's famous analysis of legal conceptions, but aspires to set future debates in legal theory, especially those surrounding rights such as the long-standing dispute between interest and choice theories of rights, on new and more solid meta-theoretical ground.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2019: HSS Frontlist Books

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 103804

ISBN:

9783161570315

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.1628/978-3-16-157031-5

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access