Description

The conference was convened by Assistant Professor Mark McBride, National University of Singapore.

Among others, the following questions were addressed at the conference:

• What is the correct methodology for a philosophical theory of legal rights?
• Is the Hohfeldian schema a secure foundation on which to build one’s theory of rights?
• Does either the interest theory or the will theory provide a correct theory of rights, or must these theories be transcended?

Additionally, doctrinal applications of the above were considered.

View programme details here.