Curtailment of individual rights by statutory moratoria

Delivering fairer workplaces through statutory rights? Enforcing employment rights in Britain

Over the past forty years Britain has experienced dramatic change in the role of legal regulation of the employment relationship. The voluntarist system, which characterized British industrial relations for most of the 20 century, has gone. At its heart was a policy of relative legal abstention, with primacy to, and support for regulation through collective bargaining. Regulation of the employm...

Individual Rights versus Economic Growth

Should human beings who have been granted basic rights be allowed to bargain them away? In some countries, most prominently in China, special export zones exist where workers are required to give up several of their rights in order to be employed. Are there serious objections to such renouncements? The first part of this paper discusses some of the pros and cons. In the second part, the results...

On Individual and Social Rights

The debate about the status and purpose of individual rights as against social rights depends a great deal on how we define these terms. Although it is difficult to come to a definitive philosophical or jurisprudential conclusion about social versus individual rights, textbooks on human rights recognize the difference between the two traditions (Gearon 2003). Furthermore, the difference between...

Individual rights and social justice.

Indigenous Peoples’ Rights to Culture and Individual Rights to Access

Using the methods of philosophical analysis and concepts from moral and political philosophy Indigenous Peoples’ human right to control access to their cultural information is defended. The concept of a “right” is delineated and different types of rights are differentiated. The method of an “overlapping consensus” is used. In attempting to articulate the moral foundation for Indigenous Peoples’...