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MOST RECENT ESSAYS by James W nickel

Research paper thumbnail of Linkage Arguments For and Against Rights.

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2022

This essay is about relations of support and conflict within systems of fundamental legal rights-... more This essay is about relations of support and conflict within systems of fundamental legal rights-and the arguments for and against rights that those relations make possible. Justificatory linkage arguments defend controversial rights by claiming that they provide very useful support to the realization of well-accepted rights. This essay analyzes such arguments in detail and discusses their structures, uses, and pitfalls. It then shows that linkage arguments can be used not just to defend rights but also to attack them. When rights conflict-severely or weakly, logically or practically-negative linkage arguments attacking them can be based on the trouble they make for other rights. Many examples of conflicts of rights are provided. Negative linkage arguments provide reasons for rejecting, repealing, or trimming the criticized right. Such arguments are already in regular use but their close relation to justificatory linkage arguments has not been recognized.

Research paper thumbnail of Moral Grounds for Economic and Social Rights

Oxford Handbook on Economic and Social rights (Malcolm Langford and Katharine G. Young, editorss.), 2022

This essay considers possible moral grounds for recognizing and realizing economic and social rig... more This essay considers possible moral grounds for recognizing and realizing economic and social rights (ESRs) as human rights. It begins by suggesting that ESRs fall into three families: (1) Welfare-oriented ESRs that protect adequate income, education, health, and safe and healthy working conditions; (2) Freedom-oriented ESRs that prohibit slavery, ensure free choice of employment, and protect workers' freedoms to organize and strike: and (3) Fairness-oriented ESRs that require nondiscrimination and equal opportunity in the workplace along with fair remuneration for one's work. To accommodate the normative diversity found in these three families the essay suggests a pluralistic justificatory framework that appeals to three kinds of moral reasons: human welfare; freedom, and fairness. A final section considers the possibility of subsuming all three of these approaches to justification under the idea of human dignity or the associated idea of equal respect for persons. Are there plausible moral grounds for taking economic and social rights (ESRs) seriously as human rights? To answer this question positively this essay reviews a number of attempts to provide moral grounds for ESRs and sketches a pluralistic justificatory framework. This framework appeals to three kinds of moral reasons: human welfare, freedom, and fairness.

Research paper thumbnail of Human Rights entry, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Please go to https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019

The philosophy of human rights addresses questions about the existence, content, nature, universa... more The philosophy of human rights addresses questions about the existence, content, nature, universality, justification, and legal status of human rights. The strong claims often made on behalf of human rights (for example, that they are universal, inalienable, or exist independently of legal enactment as justified moral norms) have frequently provoked skeptical doubts and countering philosophical defenses . Reflection on these doubts and the responses that can be made to them has become a sub-field of political and legal philosophy with a very substantial literature. This entry addresses the concept of human rights, the existence and grounds of human rights, the question of which rights are human rights, and relativism about human rights.

Research paper thumbnail of “Can a Right to Health Care be Justified by Linkage Arguments?” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 17:3 (2016): 293-306.

Research paper thumbnail of Assigning Functions to Human Rights

Human Rights: Moral or Political, Adam Etinson editor, OUP, 2018

This paper calls attention to some of the deficiencies in the debate between orthodox and politic... more This paper calls attention to some of the deficiencies in the debate between orthodox and political conceptions of human rights. Section I develops a framework of understanding functional claims and using them in philosophical explanations of norms. Sections II and II discuss critically the roles that James Griffin, John Rawls, andCharles Beitz ascribe to human rights and their grounds for doing so.

Research paper thumbnail of “Personal Deserts and Human Rights,” Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, ed. Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao and Massimo Renzo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015): 153-165.

Research paper thumbnail of “Two Models of Normative Frameworks for Human Rights during Emergencies” in Evan J. Criddle, ed., Human Rights in Emergencies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016): 56-80.

GOLDEN OLDIES by James W nickel

Research paper thumbnail of Making Sense of Human Rights, Second Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007, 263 pages.

This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel’s classic study explains and defends the ... more This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel’s classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political approaches, Nickel explains international human rights law and addresses questions of justification and feasibility. This book is still sold by Wiley so I'm able to put the full text online. Very cheap used copies are available from Amazon. Someone posted the first 29 pages at https://archive.org/details/makingsenseofhum0000nick_t0p2/page/n1/mode/2up

Research paper thumbnail of "What Future for Human Rights?, "Ethics and International Affairs" 28 (2014): 213-223.

Ethics and International Affairs, 2014

ike people born shortly after World War II, the international human rights movement recently had ... more ike people born shortly after World War II, the international human rights movement recently had its sixty-fifth birthday. This could mean that retirement is at hand and that death will come in a few decades. After all, the formulations of human rights that activists, lawyers, and politicians use today mostly derive from the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the world in  was very different from our world today: the cold war was about to break out, communism was a strong and optimistic political force in an expansionist phase, and Western Europe was still recovering from the war. The struggle against entrenched racism and sexism had only just begun, decolonization was in its early stages, and Asia was still poor (Japan was under military reconstruction, and Mao's heavy-handed revolution in China was still in the future). Labor unions were strong in the industrialized world, and the movement of women into work outside the home and farm was in its early stages. Farming was less technological and usually on a smaller scale, the environmental movement had not yet flowered, and human-caused climate change was present but unrecognized. Personal computers and social networking were decades away, and Earth's human population was well under three billion. When we read the Universal Declaration today, however, we find that it still speaks to many if not all of our problems. It addresses torture; detention without trial; authoritarian regimes that restrict fundamental freedoms and punish political participation; discrimination on grounds of race, gender, and religion; and inadequate access to food, education, and economic opportunities. Further, its norms have been embodied in international treaties that are widely accepted. The  UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, for example, has been ratified by  countries and entered into force in . The European and Inter-American courts of human rights have developed large bodies of innovative

Research paper thumbnail of "Poverty and Rights," Philosophical Quarterly, 55 (2005): 385-402.

Philosophical Quarterly, 2005

I defend economic and social rights as human rights, and as a feasible approach to addressing wor... more I defend economic and social rights as human rights, and as a feasible approach to addressing world poverty. I propose a modest conception of economic and social rights that includes rights to subsistence, basic health care and basic education. The second part of the paper defends these three rights. I begin by sketching a pluralistic justificatory framework that starts with abstract norms pertaining to life, leading a life, avoiding severely cruel treatment, and avoiding severe unfairness. I argue that economic and social rights are not excessively burdensome on their addressees and that they are feasible worldwide in the appropriate sense. Severe poverty violates economic and social rights, and accordingly generates high-priority duties of many parties to work towards its elimination.

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Indivisibility: Towards A Theory of Supporting Relations between Human Rights

Human Rights Quarterly, 2008

Page 1. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1305214 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY ce ... more Page 1. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1305214 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY ce e use of Chil-e ts l Salvador Penalty * James W. Nickel is Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor in the Department of ...

Research paper thumbnail of "Indivisibility and Linkage Arguments: A Reply to Gilabert," Human Rights Quarterly 32.2 (2010): 439-446.

Human Rights Quarterly, 2010

... A conceptual (or Page 2. Vol. 32 434 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 2. Pablo Gilabert, The Importance... more ... A conceptual (or Page 2. Vol. 32 434 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 2. Pablo Gilabert, The Importance of Linkage Arguments for the Theory and Practice of Human Rights: A Response to James Nickel, 32 HUM. RTS. Q. ___, [?] (2010). 3. Nickel, supra note 1, at 988. 4. Id. ...

Research paper thumbnail of "The Human Right to a Safe Environment," Yale Journal of International Law 18:1 (1993), 281-295.

Research paper thumbnail of "Who Needs Freedom of Religion?", Colorado Law Review 76 (2005): 909-933

This article proposes that we view freedom of religion as a specific application area of more g... more This article proposes that we view freedom of religion as a specific
application area of more general basic liberties such as freedoms of
thought, expression, association, assembly, movement, privacy, po-
litical participation, and economic activity. Separate enumeration of
freedom of religion in national and international bills of rights may
be useful, but it is not indispensable. In this respect freedom of relig-
ion is more like scientific freedom or artistic freedom than like free-
dom of expression. Recognizing that separate enumeration of free-
dom of religion is dispensable has salutary consequences for how we
conceive and justify freedom as it applies to religion. First, we see
that the general grounds of the basic liberties will also be the
grounds of religious freedom. Second, we gain a broad and ecu-
menical scope for freedom of religion that extends into areas such as
association, movement, politics, and business. Third, this perspective
helps us avoid a narrow clause-bound focus in interpreting freedom
of religion. Finally, this approach helps us resist exaggerating the
priority of freedom of religion.

Research paper thumbnail of "Restraining Orders, Liberty, and Due Process," in Andrew Ashworth & Lucia Zedner, eds., Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2013).

Research paper thumbnail of "Does the Constitution Mean What it Always Meant?" (with Stephen R. Munzer), Columbia Law Review 77 (1977), 1029-1062.

Research paper thumbnail of "Preferential Policies in Hiring and Admissions," Columbia Law Review 75 (1975), 534-558.

Columbia Law Review, 1975

Page 1. PREFERENTIAL POLICIES IN HIRING AND ADMISSIONS: A JURISPRUDENTIAL APPROACH JAMES W. NICKE... more Page 1. PREFERENTIAL POLICIES IN HIRING AND ADMISSIONS: A JURISPRUDENTIAL APPROACH JAMES W. NICKEL" * This Article discusses some of the troublesome policy issues1 that arise in connection with preferential ...

OTHER ESSAYS by James W nickel

Research paper thumbnail of "Philosophical Issues in International Environmental Law," (with Daniel McGraw), in Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas, eds., The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 453-71.

Research paper thumbnail of “Giving Up on the Right to Work,” in Virginia Mantouvalou, ed., The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015): 137-148.

Research paper thumbnail of "Goals and Rights--Working Together?", in Malcolm Langford et. al., The MDGs and Human Rights: Past, Present, and Future (Cambridge University Press, 2013),

Research paper thumbnail of Linkage Arguments For and Against Rights.

Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 2022

This essay is about relations of support and conflict within systems of fundamental legal rights-... more This essay is about relations of support and conflict within systems of fundamental legal rights-and the arguments for and against rights that those relations make possible. Justificatory linkage arguments defend controversial rights by claiming that they provide very useful support to the realization of well-accepted rights. This essay analyzes such arguments in detail and discusses their structures, uses, and pitfalls. It then shows that linkage arguments can be used not just to defend rights but also to attack them. When rights conflict-severely or weakly, logically or practically-negative linkage arguments attacking them can be based on the trouble they make for other rights. Many examples of conflicts of rights are provided. Negative linkage arguments provide reasons for rejecting, repealing, or trimming the criticized right. Such arguments are already in regular use but their close relation to justificatory linkage arguments has not been recognized.

Research paper thumbnail of Moral Grounds for Economic and Social Rights

Oxford Handbook on Economic and Social rights (Malcolm Langford and Katharine G. Young, editorss.), 2022

This essay considers possible moral grounds for recognizing and realizing economic and social rig... more This essay considers possible moral grounds for recognizing and realizing economic and social rights (ESRs) as human rights. It begins by suggesting that ESRs fall into three families: (1) Welfare-oriented ESRs that protect adequate income, education, health, and safe and healthy working conditions; (2) Freedom-oriented ESRs that prohibit slavery, ensure free choice of employment, and protect workers' freedoms to organize and strike: and (3) Fairness-oriented ESRs that require nondiscrimination and equal opportunity in the workplace along with fair remuneration for one's work. To accommodate the normative diversity found in these three families the essay suggests a pluralistic justificatory framework that appeals to three kinds of moral reasons: human welfare; freedom, and fairness. A final section considers the possibility of subsuming all three of these approaches to justification under the idea of human dignity or the associated idea of equal respect for persons. Are there plausible moral grounds for taking economic and social rights (ESRs) seriously as human rights? To answer this question positively this essay reviews a number of attempts to provide moral grounds for ESRs and sketches a pluralistic justificatory framework. This framework appeals to three kinds of moral reasons: human welfare, freedom, and fairness.

Research paper thumbnail of Human Rights entry, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Please go to https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights-human/

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2019

The philosophy of human rights addresses questions about the existence, content, nature, universa... more The philosophy of human rights addresses questions about the existence, content, nature, universality, justification, and legal status of human rights. The strong claims often made on behalf of human rights (for example, that they are universal, inalienable, or exist independently of legal enactment as justified moral norms) have frequently provoked skeptical doubts and countering philosophical defenses . Reflection on these doubts and the responses that can be made to them has become a sub-field of political and legal philosophy with a very substantial literature. This entry addresses the concept of human rights, the existence and grounds of human rights, the question of which rights are human rights, and relativism about human rights.

Research paper thumbnail of “Can a Right to Health Care be Justified by Linkage Arguments?” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 17:3 (2016): 293-306.

Research paper thumbnail of Assigning Functions to Human Rights

Human Rights: Moral or Political, Adam Etinson editor, OUP, 2018

This paper calls attention to some of the deficiencies in the debate between orthodox and politic... more This paper calls attention to some of the deficiencies in the debate between orthodox and political conceptions of human rights. Section I develops a framework of understanding functional claims and using them in philosophical explanations of norms. Sections II and II discuss critically the roles that James Griffin, John Rawls, andCharles Beitz ascribe to human rights and their grounds for doing so.

Research paper thumbnail of “Personal Deserts and Human Rights,” Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights, ed. Rowan Cruft, S. Matthew Liao and Massimo Renzo (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015): 153-165.

Research paper thumbnail of “Two Models of Normative Frameworks for Human Rights during Emergencies” in Evan J. Criddle, ed., Human Rights in Emergencies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016): 56-80.

Research paper thumbnail of Making Sense of Human Rights, Second Edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2007, 263 pages.

This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel’s classic study explains and defends the ... more This fully revised and extended edition of James Nickel’s classic study explains and defends the contemporary conception of human rights. Combining philosophical, legal and political approaches, Nickel explains international human rights law and addresses questions of justification and feasibility. This book is still sold by Wiley so I'm able to put the full text online. Very cheap used copies are available from Amazon. Someone posted the first 29 pages at https://archive.org/details/makingsenseofhum0000nick_t0p2/page/n1/mode/2up

Research paper thumbnail of "What Future for Human Rights?, "Ethics and International Affairs" 28 (2014): 213-223.

Ethics and International Affairs, 2014

ike people born shortly after World War II, the international human rights movement recently had ... more ike people born shortly after World War II, the international human rights movement recently had its sixty-fifth birthday. This could mean that retirement is at hand and that death will come in a few decades. After all, the formulations of human rights that activists, lawyers, and politicians use today mostly derive from the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the world in  was very different from our world today: the cold war was about to break out, communism was a strong and optimistic political force in an expansionist phase, and Western Europe was still recovering from the war. The struggle against entrenched racism and sexism had only just begun, decolonization was in its early stages, and Asia was still poor (Japan was under military reconstruction, and Mao's heavy-handed revolution in China was still in the future). Labor unions were strong in the industrialized world, and the movement of women into work outside the home and farm was in its early stages. Farming was less technological and usually on a smaller scale, the environmental movement had not yet flowered, and human-caused climate change was present but unrecognized. Personal computers and social networking were decades away, and Earth's human population was well under three billion. When we read the Universal Declaration today, however, we find that it still speaks to many if not all of our problems. It addresses torture; detention without trial; authoritarian regimes that restrict fundamental freedoms and punish political participation; discrimination on grounds of race, gender, and religion; and inadequate access to food, education, and economic opportunities. Further, its norms have been embodied in international treaties that are widely accepted. The  UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, for example, has been ratified by  countries and entered into force in . The European and Inter-American courts of human rights have developed large bodies of innovative

Research paper thumbnail of "Poverty and Rights," Philosophical Quarterly, 55 (2005): 385-402.

Philosophical Quarterly, 2005

I defend economic and social rights as human rights, and as a feasible approach to addressing wor... more I defend economic and social rights as human rights, and as a feasible approach to addressing world poverty. I propose a modest conception of economic and social rights that includes rights to subsistence, basic health care and basic education. The second part of the paper defends these three rights. I begin by sketching a pluralistic justificatory framework that starts with abstract norms pertaining to life, leading a life, avoiding severely cruel treatment, and avoiding severe unfairness. I argue that economic and social rights are not excessively burdensome on their addressees and that they are feasible worldwide in the appropriate sense. Severe poverty violates economic and social rights, and accordingly generates high-priority duties of many parties to work towards its elimination.

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Indivisibility: Towards A Theory of Supporting Relations between Human Rights

Human Rights Quarterly, 2008

Page 1. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1305214 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY ce ... more Page 1. Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1305214 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY ce e use of Chil-e ts l Salvador Penalty * James W. Nickel is Professor of Law and Affiliate Professor in the Department of ...

Research paper thumbnail of "Indivisibility and Linkage Arguments: A Reply to Gilabert," Human Rights Quarterly 32.2 (2010): 439-446.

Human Rights Quarterly, 2010

... A conceptual (or Page 2. Vol. 32 434 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 2. Pablo Gilabert, The Importance... more ... A conceptual (or Page 2. Vol. 32 434 HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY 2. Pablo Gilabert, The Importance of Linkage Arguments for the Theory and Practice of Human Rights: A Response to James Nickel, 32 HUM. RTS. Q. ___, [?] (2010). 3. Nickel, supra note 1, at 988. 4. Id. ...

Research paper thumbnail of "The Human Right to a Safe Environment," Yale Journal of International Law 18:1 (1993), 281-295.

Research paper thumbnail of "Who Needs Freedom of Religion?", Colorado Law Review 76 (2005): 909-933

This article proposes that we view freedom of religion as a specific application area of more g... more This article proposes that we view freedom of religion as a specific
application area of more general basic liberties such as freedoms of
thought, expression, association, assembly, movement, privacy, po-
litical participation, and economic activity. Separate enumeration of
freedom of religion in national and international bills of rights may
be useful, but it is not indispensable. In this respect freedom of relig-
ion is more like scientific freedom or artistic freedom than like free-
dom of expression. Recognizing that separate enumeration of free-
dom of religion is dispensable has salutary consequences for how we
conceive and justify freedom as it applies to religion. First, we see
that the general grounds of the basic liberties will also be the
grounds of religious freedom. Second, we gain a broad and ecu-
menical scope for freedom of religion that extends into areas such as
association, movement, politics, and business. Third, this perspective
helps us avoid a narrow clause-bound focus in interpreting freedom
of religion. Finally, this approach helps us resist exaggerating the
priority of freedom of religion.

Research paper thumbnail of "Restraining Orders, Liberty, and Due Process," in Andrew Ashworth & Lucia Zedner, eds., Prevention and the Limits of the Criminal Law (Oxford University Press 2013).

Research paper thumbnail of "Does the Constitution Mean What it Always Meant?" (with Stephen R. Munzer), Columbia Law Review 77 (1977), 1029-1062.

Research paper thumbnail of "Preferential Policies in Hiring and Admissions," Columbia Law Review 75 (1975), 534-558.

Columbia Law Review, 1975

Page 1. PREFERENTIAL POLICIES IN HIRING AND ADMISSIONS: A JURISPRUDENTIAL APPROACH JAMES W. NICKE... more Page 1. PREFERENTIAL POLICIES IN HIRING AND ADMISSIONS: A JURISPRUDENTIAL APPROACH JAMES W. NICKEL" * This Article discusses some of the troublesome policy issues1 that arise in connection with preferential ...

Research paper thumbnail of "Philosophical Issues in International Environmental Law," (with Daniel McGraw), in Samantha Besson and John Tasioulas, eds., The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010): 453-71.

Research paper thumbnail of “Giving Up on the Right to Work,” in Virginia Mantouvalou, ed., The Right to Work: Legal and Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2015): 137-148.

Research paper thumbnail of "Goals and Rights--Working Together?", in Malcolm Langford et. al., The MDGs and Human Rights: Past, Present, and Future (Cambridge University Press, 2013),

Research paper thumbnail of "Rethinking Rawls' Theory of Liberty and Rights," Chicago-Kent Law Review 69 (1994): 763-785.

Research paper thumbnail of "Group Agency and Group Rights," in Ian Shapiro and Will Kymlicka, eds., Ethnicity and Group Rights (Nomos XXXIX) New York: New York University Press, 1997: 235-256.

Research paper thumbnail of “Ethical Protections for Future Persons: Is their Present Non-existence a Serious Problem?”, Journal of Business Ethics 127 (2015): 717-722.

Journal of Business Ethics, May 22, 2014

One argument for a lifespan view of morality is that both deceased and future people do not now e... more One argument for a lifespan view of morality is that both deceased and future people do not now exist and that it is not possible to stand in moral relations to any kind of non-actual entities. This is the non-actuality argument in its broadest form. There are also narrower (and I think more plausible) forms of the argument that only apply to certain kinds of moral relations. For example, it might be accepted that we can now value morally the future well-being of future persons but denied that we can have duties to them. The lifespan view of morality’s reach can be challenged at both ends. About the recently deceased it seems that some moral principles extend to them since we can still respond appropriately to their personal deserts, recognize and fulfill promises made to them before they died, and respect the choices they made in their wills and instructions. And about future persons it seems that principles of both benevolence and non-maleficence apply to them. Extending morality’s reach in a few areas to both recently deceased people and future persons results in what might be called the ‘‘symmetrically extended’’ view. This paper is mainly concerned with only the future-oriented half of such a view.

Research paper thumbnail of Due Process Rights and Terrorist Emergencies

DPRs are legal protections against a variety of familiar abuses occurring during the arrest, inte... more DPRs are legal protections against a variety of familiar abuses occurring during the arrest, interrogation, trial, sentencing, and punishment of suspected criminals. In this paragraph I describe a representative set of DPRs. At the time of arrest and interrogation DPRs require access to counsel and forbid police violence, summary punishments, and torture. During detention prior to trial DPRs insist upon an indictment hearing, consideration of release on bail, and the right to demand that one’s detention be justified before an impartial judge (habeas corpus). Those accused of crimes have a right to a trial without excessive delay, and if the case goes to trial the proceedings must be fair and open, and the accused must enjoy the presumption of innocence, the right against self-incrimination, and a right to the assistance of counsel. The accused has a right to know the evidence against him or her, and there can be no conviction without a valid criminal statute that is not retroactive....

Research paper thumbnail of Rawls on Political Community and Principles of justice

Law and Philosophy, 1990

John Rawls's attempt to develop a notion of political community compatible with his style of libe... more John Rawls's attempt to develop a notion of political community compatible with his style of liberalism has not received much attention. In several recent essays, but particularly in 'The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus'] RaMs has developed an account of political community-which he calls social unity-that suggests that political community can and should exist in democracies by having general acceptance by the population of a certain conception of justice. 2 Like strong communitarians, Rawls understands political community in terms of a consensus on certain normative principles. In this paper I explicate and criticize Rawts's theory of political community. I present three criticisms of Rawls's views. Social unity exists, according to RaMs, when there is an overlapping consensus on a political conception of justice. A "political conception

Research paper thumbnail of Rethinking Rawls' Theory of Liberty and Rights

Research paper thumbnail of How Human Rights Generate Duties to Protect and Provide

Human Rights Quarterly, 1993

Page 1. HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY How Human Rights Generate Duties to Protect and Provide James W Ni... more Page 1. HUMAN RIGHTS QUARTERLY How Human Rights Generate Duties to Protect and Provide James W Nickel A common frustration with human rights instruments such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is ...

Research paper thumbnail of "Integrating Environmentalism and Human Rights" (with Eduardo Viola), Environmental Ethics 16 (1994): 265-271.

Research paper thumbnail of Integrando a defesa dos direitos humanos e do meio ambiente: lições do Brasil

Research paper thumbnail of "Are Human Rights Mainly Implemented by Intervention?" in Rex Martin and David Reidy, eds. Rawls's Law of Peoples: A Realistic Utopia? Blackwells 2006: 263-277.

Rawls's Law of Peoples, 2000

Page 1. Implementing Human Rights 261 Part V On Liberal Democratic Foreign Policy Page 2. Impleme... more Page 1. Implementing Human Rights 261 Part V On Liberal Democratic Foreign Policy Page 2. Implementing Human Rights 263 15 Are Human Rights Mainly Implemented by Intervention? James W. Nickel In The Law of Peoples1 ...

Research paper thumbnail of “Is Today’s International Human Rights System a Global Governance Regime?”, The Journal of Ethics 6 (2003): 353-371.

Research paper thumbnail of "The Philosophy of Human Rights," (with David Reidy) in Moeckli, Shah, Sivakumaran and Harris, eds., International Human Rights Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010): 39-63.

Research paper thumbnail of "Relativism, Self-Determination and Human Rights" (with David Reidy) in Deen Chatterjee, ed., Democracy in a Global World: Human Rights and Political Participation in the 21st Century. Rowman and Littlefield, 2007: 91-110.

Research paper thumbnail of "A Human Rights Approach to World Hunger," in Aiken and LaFollette, editors, World Hunger and Morality, Second Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995: 171-185.

Research paper thumbnail of "What's Wrong with Ethnic Cleansing?" Journal of Social Philosophy 26 (1995): 5-15.

Research paper thumbnail of "Economic Liberties" in Victoria Davion and Clark Wolf, eds., The Idea of Political Liberalism (Lanham, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000). 155-175.

Research paper thumbnail of "Due Process Rights and Terrorist Emergencies", European Journal of Legal Studies (1: 2007).

This essay discusses the grounds for due process rights (DPRs) and the permissibil¬ ity of suspen... more This essay discusses the grounds for due process rights (DPRs) and the permissibil¬ ity of suspending them during terrorist and other emergencies. The two topics are profitably treated together because DPRs—along with freedoms of movement, expression, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Realm of Rights

Human Rights Quarterly, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of A Bibliography on the Nature and Foundations of Rights, 1947-1977

Political Theory, Aug 1, 1978

This bibliography attempts to canvass writings on rights since World War 11. It focuses specifica... more This bibliography attempts to canvass writings on rights since World War 11. It focuses specifically on: (1) the concept (or nature) of rights, (2) what makes righ@ (and the use of rights) distinctive, and (3) the foundations of rights. In general it does not include analyses of the content of particular rights such as the right to life or the right to privacy. For writings in English the bibliography is quite comprehensive, but for writings in other languages we cannot make that claim. Annotations have by and large been restricted to chapter references. It should be noted, however, that abstracts of most recent articles in this area are available in The Philosopher's Index, and of books in The Bibliography of Philosophy. Anthologies of previously published pieces and collections of original papers have been identified in each case with a brief annotation; a few noteworthy items have been singled out as separate entries in the articles section of the bibliography. Those wishing to explore the literature on human rights and their international protection should consult Ian Brownlie. Editor. BASIC

Research paper thumbnail of Human Rights and the Challenge of Cultural Diversity

Research paper thumbnail of Do Professors Need Professional Ethics as Much as Doctors and Lawyers

Research paper thumbnail of The Human Right to a Safe Environment: Philosophical Perspectives on Its Scope and Justification

Yale Journal of International Law, 1993

In the last twenty-five years, environmentalists have sought recognition for the right to a safe ... more In the last twenty-five years, environmentalists have sought recognition for the right to a safe environment (RSE) in national and international fora.' As a result, some countries have recognized RSE in their constitutions.' Nevertheless, much skepticism exists about whether RSE is a genuine human right, and advocates of RSE still need to persuade critics that this right merits national and international recognition. This paper presents a normative

Research paper thumbnail of Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights by Will Kymlicka

The Journal of Philosophy, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Sparshott on Relevance

Dialogue, Jun 1, 1973

I want to criticize this analysis of relevance, but in order to explain its meaning it will be us... more I want to criticize this analysis of relevance, but in order to explain its meaning it will be useful to begin by considering some of the things that Sparshott has to say about relevance in The Concept of Criticism. He there considers two possible approaches to the concept of relevance. One, a logical interpretation, holds that one proposition is relevant to another if and only if its truth-value bears on or makes a difference to the truth-value of the other. Another approach, a "psychological" interpretation, considers a proposition to be relevant to a decision if it commonly influences people when they make decisions of that kind. The difficulty with the logical interpretation is that it

Research paper thumbnail of Moral rights in the workplace

Journal of Business Ethics, 1987

Page 1. MORAL RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE • 1 THE RIGHT TO MEANINGFUL WORK 2 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND ... more Page 1. MORAL RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE • 1 THE RIGHT TO MEANINGFUL WORK 2 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY 3 FREEDOM, COERCION, AND THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY W 4 THE RIGHT TO ORGANIZE ...

Research paper thumbnail of Human Rights and Food

Research paper thumbnail of Bibliography: A bibliography on the nature and foundations of rights, 1947-1977

Research paper thumbnail of Ideal and Nonideal Theory

Research paper thumbnail of Restraining Orders, Liberty, and Due Process

Oxford University Press eBooks, Jan 31, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Goals and rights: Working together?

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This article discusses whether it is ethically imperative to provide work to people who are unemp... more This article discusses whether it is ethically imperative to provide work to people who are unemployed, can't find jobs or other economic opportunities, and want to work. The idea of a right to work is explained and arguments for and against such a right are presented. Keywords: work; unemployment; right to employment; human rights

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Hart Publishing eBooks, Jan 28, 2015

Do we have a human right to work? What is the content of the right? Does it impose a duty on gove... more Do we have a human right to work? What is the content of the right? Does it impose a duty on governments to promote full employment? Does it entail an obligation to protect decent work? There is also a question about the right-holders. Do migrants have a right to work, for example? At the same time many people would rather not work. What kind of right is this, if many people do not want to have it? The chapters of this book address the uncertainty and controversy that surround the right to work both in theoretical scholarship and in policymaking

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International Migration Review, 1991

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Research paper thumbnail of Commentary: The Claims of Immigrants: A Response to Baubock and Parekh

International Migration Review, 1996

Page 1. Commentary The Claims of Immigrants: A Response to Baubock and Parekh James W. Nickel Uni... more Page 1. Commentary The Claims of Immigrants: A Response to Baubock and Parekh James W. Nickel University of Colorado, Boulder How ample a bundle of rights must be granted to immigrants is of obvious relevance to contemporary ...