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Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Matthew H. Kramer

    1. Cambridge University, UK
      Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Hohfeldian Rights and Public Law

    • Nicholas Bamforth
    Pages 1-27

  3. Getting Rights Right

    • Matthew H. Kramer
    Pages 28-95

  4. On Criminal Attempts

    • W. J. Waluchow
    Pages 96-118

  5. Attempts, Impossibility and Intention: a Reply to Waluchow

    • R. A. Duff
    Pages 119-147

  6. Property and Justice

    • Craig Rotherham
    Pages 148-174

  7. Prima Facie Rights, Rationality and the Law of Negligence

    • Richard Mullender
    Pages 175-208

  8. Noncompensatable Wrongs, or Having to Say You’re Sorry

    • Sandra Marshall
    Pages 209-224

  9. Choice and Circumstance

    • Hillel Steiner
    Pages 225-241

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 242-247
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About this book

In this wide-ranging investigation of many prominent issues in contemporary legal and political philosophy, eight distinguished philosophers and legal theorists (including Matthew Kramer, Hillel Steiner, Antony Duff, Sandra Marshall, Wilfrid Waluchow, and Nicholas Bamforth) tackle issues such as the rights of animals and foetuses, the relationship between law and politics, the requirements of justice, the demands of practical rationality, the role of public-policy considerations in legal reasoning, the fundamental characteristics of legal and moral entitlements, the appropriateness of compensation as a means of rectifying mishaps and misdeeds, the extent of individuals' responsibility for the consequences of their choices, and the culpability of failed attempts to commit crimes. Together, the eight principal essays in Rights, Wrongs, and Responsibilities shed philosophical light on public law, criminal law, and most areas of private law as they explore the bearings of the three key concepts in the volume's title.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cambridge University, UK

    Matthew H. Kramer

  • Churchill College, Cambridge, UK

    Matthew H. Kramer

About the editor

NICHOLAS BAMFORTH University Lecturer in Law, University of Oxford and Fellow, Queen's College, Oxford R.A. DUFF Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling SANDRA MARSHALL Professor of Philosophy, University of Stirling RICHARD MULLENDER Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne CRAIG ROTHERAM Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge HELLEL STEINER Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Manchester W.J.WALUCHOW Professor of Philosophy, McMaster University

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