Transcription of Human Rights: A Brief Introduction
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Human Rights: A Brief Introduction Stephen P. Marks Harvard University Harvard University 2016. Marks 1 Human Rights Human Rights: A Brief Introduction Stephen P. Marks Harvard University I: Introduction .. 1 II. Human rights in ethics, law and social activism .. 1 A. Human rights as ethical concerns .. 2 B. Human rights as legal rights (positive law tradition) .. 3 C. Human rights as social claims .. 4 III: Historical milestones .. 5 IV: Tensions and controversies about Human rights today .. 7 A. Why do sovereign states accept Human rights obligations? .. 7 B. How do we know which rights are recognized as Human rights?
an constitutive characteristic of human rights”3, implying an inherent value of the concept of human rights, independent of what is established in law. Legal positivists would disagree and consider law to be constitutive rather than declarative of human rights. B. Human rights as legal rights (positive law tradition)
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