Rights, goals, and fairness

Rights, Fairness, and Choice of Law

Setting Higher Goals : Rights and Development

DURING THE PAST DECADE, A RIGHTS-BASED approach (RBA) to development has proliferated and blurred the distinction between human rights advocacy and development work. As Ellen Dorsey wrote in her October 2008 Monday Developments article, RBA is attractive because it shifts “the tenor of the discourse from charity to entitlement” and elevates development goals to “recognized standards and princip...

Fairness and the Optimal Allocation of Ownership Rights*

We report on several experiments on the optimal allocation of ownership rights. The experiments confirm the property rights approach by showing that the ownership structure affects relationshipspecific investments and that subjects attain the most efficient ownership allocation despite starting from different initial conditions. However, in contrast to the property rights approach, the most eff...

Health professionals and human rights campaigners: different cultures, shared goals.

This article looks at a disagreement that emerged at an international human rights conference between health professionals and human rights activists. The disagreement centred on the scope of the responsibilities of health professionals in relation to potential systemic human rights violations. In this article, the nature of the disagreement that emerged at the conference is explored. It is fir...

Health Rights and Realization; Comment on “Rights Language in the Sustainable Development Agenda: Has Right to Health Discourse and Norms Shaped Health Goals?”

In their hypothesis published in IJHPM, Lisa Forman and colleagues examined the prominence of the right to health and sexual and reproductive health rights (as well as related language) in four of the key reports that fed into the process of negotiating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Now that the SDGs have been formally adopted, this comment builds on some of the insights of Forman a...