Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law
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Abstract
In this presentation I shall explore the question of whether or not it is defensible to grant legal group rights through international instruments and national legal systems. I shall proceed in the following way. First, I shall briefly examine the conceptual consistency between group rights and the framework of rights discourse, and I shall conclude that it is conceptually possible to include group rights in ordinary rights talk. Secondly, I shall explore what the basic requirements would be for the recognition of a group right. I shall suggest that the use of rights discourse bears a number of conceptual as well as normative constraints that carry important practical consequences, and that these constraints must be understood as conditions of admissibility for any group right.
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Rodriguez-Abascal, Luis
(2003)
"On the Admissibility of Group Rights,"
Annual Survey of International & Comparative Law: Vol. 9
:
Iss.
1
, Article 5.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/annlsurvey/vol9/iss1/5