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Theories on Human Rights

R. Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman Faculty of Law, Airlangga University Surabaya, 8 October 2013. Theories on Human Rights. Aims of Course. The development of human rights thoughts Theoretical approach to human rights The concept of justice The concept of law and human rights.

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Theories on Human Rights

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  1. R. Herlambang Perdana Wiratraman Faculty of Law, Airlangga University Surabaya, 8 October 2013 Theories on Human Rights

  2. Aims of Course • The development of human rights thoughts • Theoretical approach to human rights • The concept of justice • The concept of law and human rights

  3. References • Heard, Andrew (1997) Human Rights: Chimerasin Sheep’s Clothing? www.sfu.ca • Donnelly, Jack (1989) Universal Human Rights inTheory and Practice. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

  4. Theory, what is that? • „An analysis of facts which are connected each other • One thing that makes sense or scientifically acceptable general principle or the principle of building that offers an explanation for the phenomenon

  5. Theoretical approach to human rights • Libertarian Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (New York: Basic Books, 1974), Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (Cambridge: John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice, & John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1971) • Utilitarian David Lyons’ "Utility and Rights," Nomos XXIV: Ethics, Economics and the Law (New York: New York University Press, 1982), Russell Hardin’s "The Utilitarian Logic of Liberalism," Ethics, 97, 1 (October, 1986), 47-74, Richard B. Brandt’s Morality, Utilitarianism, and Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

  6. Naturalist Richard Tuck, Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) & James W. Nickel, Making Sense of Human Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987). • “Human rights represent a social choice of a particular moral vision of human potentiality, which rests on a particular substantive account of the minimum requirements of a life of dignity” (Donelly 1989: 17)

  7. Approach to rights (1) • How do you see rights perspective from this pic. ? • Is there rights for street vendor?

  8. Approach to rights (2) • And, how about this children? • Is there rights for a child?

  9. Marxian approach to human rights • Marx denounced rights as a fabrication of bourgeois society • ‘Market friendly human rights’ (Baxi 2002)

  10. Poverty cycle? • Rights based approach: ‘entitled vs. given?’

  11. Claim Rights • The most common interpretation given to the `right' in human rights is that of claim-rights. There is a defined benefit to which individuals are entitled, and there is a correlative duty on others in relation to that benefit. • This tendency may be partly due to the increasing codification of human rights into legal documents. • It is far more efficacious if human rights are conceived of as claimrights, because those who are deprived of their rights may arguethat others (usually their government) must be compelled to fulfill a duty to provide the benefit.

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