Community and Collective Rights

Dwight Newman is a Professor at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Canada.

Community and Collective Rights is a book that makes clear what it wants to do and does it. Some books read like collections of essays related to a general field of inquiry...This is a different kind of book, though, which presents a thorough, cohesive investigation of a single topic. Regardless of whether one agrees with the author's conclusions, the theoretical framework is a formidable attempt to tackle a complex problem...Newman's ambitious account challenges us to reconsider the basis of our views regarding the moral status, responsibilities, and claims of collectivities.Broadly speaking, the book should be of interest to scholars with an appetite for questions at the intersection of law and philosophy. Indeed, the book reads even more like a work in political morality than one might expect from the title...The book also should be of interest to legal scholars with an interest generally in questions about group rights, or in specific controversies that fall within this arena, as it is packed with illustrative examples drawn from international and domestic law.

• PART I: THE EXISTENCE OF COLLECTIVE MORAL RIGHTS1. Introduction 2. Collectivities as Moral Rights-Holders 3. Collective Interests and Collective Rights PART II: MORAL CONDITIONS FOR COLLECTIVE RIGHTS4. Conflicting Rights 5. The Service Principle 6. The Mutuality Principle 7. Rights to Exit and Membership Control PART III: REALISING COLLECTIVE RIGHTS8. Imperfect Collectivities 9. Toward a Community of Communities