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Promises, Rights and Claims

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Author

Summary, in Swedish

Abstract in Undetermined

The paper argues that promise rights presuppose independently existing (if not pre-existing) claims. The argument relies on the Bifurcation Thesis, according to which all claims, and all rights, can be exhaustively divided into two categories: capacity based and exercise based.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

51-76

Publication/Series

Law and Philosophy

Volume

30

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Philosophy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0167-5249