The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights

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The Cambridge Handbook of Natural Law and Human Rights

Edited by Tom Angier · Iain T. Benson · Mark D. Retter
Cambridge University Press November 2022

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ISBN-13
9781108837514
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
November 2022
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This Handbook provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of the relationship between natural law and human rights. It fills a crucial gap in the literature with leading scholarship on the importance of natural law as a philosophical foundation for human rights and its significance for contemporary debates. The themes covered include: the role of natural law thought in the history of human rights; human rights scepticism; the different notions of 'subjective right'; the various foundations for human rights within natural law ethics; the relationship between natural law and human rights in religious traditions; the idea of human dignity; the relation between human rights, political community and law; human rights interpretation; and tensions between human rights law and natural law ethics. This Handbook is an ideal introduction to natural law perspectives on human rights, while also offering a concise summary of scholarly developments in the field.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The perennial and dynamic relationship between human rights and natural law
Mark Retter, Tom Angier and Iain T. Benson
Part I. Natural Law and the Origins of Human Rights:
2. Natural law and human rights: continuities and discontinuities
Cary J. Nederman and Ben Peterson
3. The paradox of shrinking individuality: natural rights' development and relevance to human rights today
Mónica García-Salmones
4. Synderesis, Conscientia and human rights
Kevin L. Flannery, S.J.
5. The case against the marriage of natural law and natural rights
Tracey Rowland
6. The mythical connection between natural law and the universal declaration of human rights
James Chappel
7. Natural law and the universal declaration of human rights
Paul Yowell
Part II. Natural Law Foundations of Human Rights Obligations:
8. Ontological and epistemological foundations of human rights
Tom Angier
9. The Teleological Foundations of Human Rights
Edward Feser
10. New natural law foundations of human rights
Christopher Tollefsen
11. A personalist foundation for natural law and human rights
Josef Seifert
12. Acknowledged dependence, natural rights, and human rights: Augustinian humility, Charles Malik, and the universal declaration
Mary M. Keys and Melody Grubaugh
13. Eternal law, natural law, natural rights: freedom and power in Aquinas
Jean Porter
Part III. Natural Law and Human Rights within Religious Traditions
14. Natural law, natural theology, and human rights in the Jewish tradition
David Novak
15. Natural law and human rights in Catholic Christianity
Roland Minnerath
16. Natural law and natural rights in the early Protestant tradition
John Witte, Jr.
17. Human rights or moral obligations?: the link with natural law in Hinduism
Shashi Motilal and Jeremiah Dumai
Part IV. The Human Person, Political Community and Rule of Law:
18. Human dignity and natural law
Patrick Lee and Robert P. George
19. Civic friendship, natural law and natural right
John von Heyking
20. Common goods, group rights and human rights
Mark D. Retter
21. Natural law, human rights and the separation of powers
Julian Rivers
22. Human goods and human rights law: two modes of derivation from natural law
Grégoire Webber
23. Natural law, human rights, and Jus Cogens
Stephen Hall
Part V. Rival Interpretations and Interpretive Principles:
24. Moral pluralism, political disagreement and human rights
Catherine McCauliff
25. Human rights law and adjudication: the role of Determinatio
Francisco J. Urbina
26. Natural law and human rights amid the legal ruins of liberal scepticism, values language and global resets
Iain T. Benson
27. Human rights and the modes of judicial responsibility
Peter D. Lauwers
28. The right to religious freedom: extension or erosion?
Rafael Domingo
29. Natural law, rights of the family, and international human rights instruments
Jane F. Adolphe
30. Natural law and socioeconomic rights
Gary Chartier
31. Solidarity and global allocation of COVID-19 vaccines: a question of equality?
Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky
Part VI. Challenges and Future Prospects:
32. Philosophical challenges and prospects for natural law foundations of human rights
Jonathan Crowe
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