A Debate Over Rights

Matthew Kramer is a University Lecturer in Jurisprudence, Cambridge University, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Churchill College, Cambridge.Nigel Simmonds is a Reader in Jurisprudence, Cambridge University, and Fellow and Director of Studies in Law, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.Hillel Steiner is Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Manchester.

the authors expound their positions with admirable vigor and clarity. This work will certainly be of significant interest to anyone concerned with the Hohfeldian jural framework, the "Interest" and "Will" theories of Rights, on the rival analytic and evaluative approaches to the philosophical foundations of rights theory. It is, then, a more than welcome addition to our ongoing "debate over rights"

• Preface ; Introduction ; Rights Without Trimmings ; 1. Setting the Hohfeldian Table ; 2. Rights Without Trimmings ; Appendix: Getting Hohfeld Right ; Rights at the Cutting Edge ; 1. Background ; 2. The Fundamental Issues ; 3. Hohfeld and the Fragmentation of Rights ; 4. Hohfeld and the Kantians ; 5. The Interest Theory of Rights ; 6. The Modern Will Theory ; Working Rights ; 1. Preliminary Intuitions about Rights ; 2. From Hohfeld to Hart: The Modern Will Theory ; 3. Some Apparent Problems with the Will Theory ; 4. From Hart to Kant: The Classical Will Theory (Partly) Redeemed ; 5. Some Real Problems with the Interest Theory ; Index