Group Rights

Contents: Introduction; Part I Understanding Group Rights: The Rights of Groups as Moral Entities: The corporation as a moral person, Peter A. French; The moral significance of collective entities, Keith Graham; Collective interests and collective rights, Dwight G. Newman; Should communities have rights? Reflections on liberal individualism, Michael McDonald. The Shared Rights of a Group's Members: Group rights and group oppression, Peter Jones; Collective rights, Seumas Miller; Group rights and social ontology, Carol C. Gould; Two views of collective rights, Leslie Green. Part II Group Rights and Collective Goods: Individuals, groups, and rights to public goods, Denise Reaume; Do we have a right to common goods?, Andrei Marmor. Part III Scepticism About Group Rights: Can groups be persons?, Andrew Vincent; Collective rights?, Jan Narveson; Some confusions concerning collective rights, Michael Hartney; Are there any cultural rights?, Chandran Kukathas. Part IV Group Rights, Individual Rights and Human Rights: 'Mistresses of their own destiny': group rights, gender, and realistic rights of exit, Susan Moller Okin; Can collective and individual rights coexist?, Leighton McDonald; Collective rights and individual autonomy, Steven Wall; Are there collective human rights?, Michael Freeman; Group rights, human rights and citizenship, David Miller. Part V Applications: National self-determination, Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz; The good, the bad, and the intolerable: minority group rights, Will Kymlicka; The logic of aboriginal rights, Duncan Ivison; Language laws and collective rights, Nathan Brett; Collective rights in the liberal state, John Edwards; Name Index.