Conference on Contemporary Debates over Legal Rights
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- Conference on Contemporary Debates over Legal Rights
May
19
Thursday
Venue: | Lee Sheridan Conference Room, NUS Law |
Type of Participation: | Participation by Invitation Only |
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.
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