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Race, Rights, and Justice

Race, Rights, and Justice

Corlett, J. Angelo

Hardcover

Series: Law and Philosophy Library, Book 85

PhilosophyGeneral Law

ISBN10: 1402096518
ISBN13: 9781402096518
Publisher: Springer
Published: Mar 27 2009
Pages: 228
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Race, Rights, and Justice explores questions of the nature of law and constitutional interpretation, international law and global justice, and the nature, function, and importance of rights each from a perspective that takes seriously the realities of race and racism. After a critical assessment of various contemporary theories of law is provided, a new theory of legal interpretation is set forth and defended. The respective words of Immanuel Kant and H.L.A. Hart on the possibility and desirability of international law are carefully explicated. Following this, Race, Rights, and Justice defends John Rawls' Law of Peoples from the cosmopolitan liberal critique of it. The nature and importance of rights, both individual and collective, are clarified while correcting some political philosophies that have propagated confused rhetoric about rights. And the collective right to humanitarian intervention is investigated philosophically in terms of the recent problems in Colombia, with surprisingly original results. While the methodology of this book is thoroughly analytical, philosophically speaking, some of the conclusions drawn are substantially original, infusing the facts of race and racism into mainstream matters of philosophy of law.

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