Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2011
Abstract
In Dignity, Rights, and Responsibilities1 Jeremy Waldron offers a characteristically thoughtful and elegant account of rights, or as he calls it, responsibility-rights. As Waldron rightfully acknowledges, rights understood as a form of responsibility are not meant to capture every species of rights, but to provide us with a new analytic resource for better understanding a particular subset of rights that curiously entail a form of responsibility on the part of the rights holder. The link between rights and responsibility, Waldron argues, is built upon a strong foundational commitment to human dignity. The most compelling contribution of Waldron's paper is his careful unbraiding of the complex relationship of rights, responsibility, and a liberal conception of human dignity.
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Law | Sexuality and the Law
Recommended Citation
Katherine M. Franke,
Dignifying Rights: A Comment on Jeremy Waldron’s Dignity, Rights, and Responsibilities,
43
Ariz. St. L. J.
1177
(2011).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/1715