In The Moral Dimensions of Human Rights, Carl Wellman takes a broad approach to human rights by discussing all three types - moral, international, and national -at length. At the same time, Wellman pays special attention to the moral reasons that are relevant to each kind of human rights.

Auteur

Carl Wellman is Emeritus Hortense and Tobias Lewin Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Washington University St Louis; author of Real Rights.

Résumé
Many books on human rights either concentrate on human rights as fundamental moral rights with little attention to international human rights, or discount moral human rights and focus on international human rights. The Moral Dimensions of Human Rights takes a broad approach by discussing all three species of human rights - moral, international, and national -at length. At the same time, Carl Wellman pays special attention to the moral reasons that are relevant to each kind of human rights. The book has three parts. In the first, Wellman develops an original view of the nature and grounds of moral human rights based on his previous publications in the general theory of rights, especially Real Rights. The next part explains how moral human rights are relevant both to the justification and to the interpretation of human rights in international law and identifies several other relevant moral considerations. In the third part, the author argues that different kinds of moral and international human rights ought to be incorporated into national legal systems in four distinct ways-recognition in a written constitution, judicial decisions, legislation, and ratified human rights treaties.

Contenu

An Approach to Human Rights 1. The Natural Rights Tradition 2. Alternative Approaches 3. Conclusion 2. The Nature of Moral Human Rights 1. Rights 2. Moral Rights 3. Human Rights 4. Modality 5. Adversarial 6. Universal 7. Political Import 8. Inalienable 9. Importance 10. Conclusion 3. Grounds of Moral Human Rights 1. Basal Rights 2. Derived Rights 3. Conclusions 4. Moral Dimensions of Human Rights Documents 1. Declarations 2. Treaties 3. Security Rights 4. Rights to Liberty 5. Equality Rights 6. Welfare Rights 7. Due Process Rights 8. Political Rights 9. Group Rights 10. Conclusions 5. Nature of International Human Rights 1. Rights 2. Modality 3. Adversarial 4. Universality 5. Conclusion 6. Grounds of International Human Rights 1. The Charter of the United Nations 2. Conventions Sponsored by the United Nations 3. General Assembly Resolutions 4. Reports of Human Rights Committees 5. Evidences of Customary International Law 6. Judicial Decisions 7. Conclusions 7. International Rights vs. National Sovereignty 1. United Nations Charter 2. General Assembly Resolutions 3. United Nations Practices 4. International Court Cases 5. Unresolved Legal Issues 6. Just Resolutions 7. Conclusions 8. Constitutional Rights 1. Constitutional Recognition 2. Entrenchment 3. As Human Rights? 4. Conclusion 9. Judicial Recognition of Human Rights 1. Advantages 2. Disadvantages 3. Appraisal on Balance 4. Redefining Constitutional Rights 5. Deriving Rights 6. Recognizing Additional Rights 7. Conclusion 10. Legislative Recognition and Implementation 1. Disadvantages of Legislative Recognition 2. Advantages of Legislative Recognition 3. Which Rights? 4. Kinds of Implementation 5. Which Kinds? 6. Conclusion 11. Recognition and Implementation of Treaty Rights 1. When Agree? 2. When Reservations? 3. How Implement? 4. Conclusions 12. Moral Dimensions 1. Moral Human Rights 2. International Human Rights 3. National Human Rights