How Rights Move: Losing and Acquiring Rights in the International Domain (with live webcast)
| David Rodin |
Description:
The Second Annual Carnegie-Uehiro Lecture
People have rights, and these rights place limits on what any minimally decent person or society may do. But rights are not simply static, specifying claims and duties at a particular point in time; they also alter over time. Even our most important rights—such as the rights to liberty, to property, to life itself—can be lost or altered as a consequence of actions we ourselves take. This dynamic feature of rights lies at the heart of many core ethical problems including punishment, restitution, self-defense, international sanctions, forcible humanitarian intervention, and war.
This talk explores the logic which governs how rights may be lost, acquired and transferred—how they 'move'—and examines in particular the implications this has for the way we justify and prosecute war.
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Speaker: David Rodin
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Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
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