Group Rights

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Nowadays, rights are frequently ascribed to groups distinguished by their nationality, culture, religion or language. Rights are also commonly ascribed to institutionalised groups, such as states, businesses, trade unions and private associations. Yet the ascription of rights to groups remains deeply controversial. Many people reject the very idea of group rights. Amongst those who do not, there is radical disagreement about which sorts of group might possess rights and why. Some believe that group rights threaten the freedom and well-being of individuals, while others argue that the rights of groups can complement them. Some claim that group rights can also be human rights; others find that claim incoherent. The contributions making up this volume wrestle with these and many other of the issues that surround group rights. This volume brings together twenty-four of the journal articles that have contributed most significantly to contemporary thinking on group rights. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction PART I UNDERSTANDING GROUP RIGHTS The Rights of Groups as Moral Entities 1 The Corporation as a Moral Person’, American Philosophical Quarterly, 16 2 The Moral Significance of Collective Entities’, Inquiry, 44 3 ‘Collective Interests and Collective Rights’, American Journal of Jurisprudence, 49 4 ‘Should Communities Have Rights? Reflections on Liberal Individualism’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 4 The Shared Rights of a Group’s Members 5 ‘Group Rights and Group Oppression’, Journal of Political Philosophy, 7 6 ‘Collective Rights’, Public Affairs Quarterly, 13 7 ‘Group Rights and Social Ontology’, Philosophical Forum, 28 8 ‘Two Views of Collective Rights’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 4 PART II GROUP RIGHTS AND COLLECTIVE GOODS 9 ‘Individuals, Groups, and Rights to Public Goods’, University of Toronto Law Journal, 38 10 ‘Do We Have a Right to Common Goods?’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 14 PART III SCEPTICISM ABOUT GROUP RIGHTS 11 ‘Can Groups be Persons?’, Review of Metaphysics, 42 12 ‘Collective Rights?’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 4 13 ‘Some Confusions Concerning Collective Rights’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 4 14 ‘Are There Any Cultural Rights?’, Political Theory, 20 PART IV GROUP RIGHTS, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS 15 "'Mistresses of Their Own Destiny”: Group Rights, Gender, and Realistic Rights of Exit’, Ethics, 112 16 ‘Can Collective and Individual Rights Coexist?’, Melbourne University Law Review, 22 17 ‘Collective Rights and Individual Autonomy’, Ethics, 117 18 ‘Are There Collective Human Rights?’, Political Studies, 43 19 ‘Group Rights, Human Rights and Citizenship’, European Journal of Philosophy, 10 PARTY V APPLICATIONS 20 ‘National Self-Determination’, Journal of Philosophy, 87 21 ‘The Good, The Bad, and the Intolerable: Minority Group Rights’, Dissent, pp. 22-30 22 ‘The Logic of Aboriginal Rights’, Ethnicities, 3 23 ‘Language Laws and Collective Rights’, Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 4 24 ‘Collective Rights in the Liberal State’, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, 3 Name Index