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Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origin of Rights
by Alan Dershowitz

Rights From Wrongs: A Secular Theory of the Origin of Rights
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Author: Alan Dershowitz
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-11-02
ISBN: 0465017134
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Basic Books

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Book Review: Challenging, but Dershowitz is Right (and Left)
Summary: 4 Stars

This high level book on legal philosophy attempts to discover and explain the origins and future development of human rights and civil liberties. Legal scholar, Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz makes no attempt to tutor readers. He starts from an expert philosophical perspective, and only goes deeper as he seamlessly navigates through contemporary, historical and judicial examples to present his theory about the origins of rights. Dershowitz is a masterful, machete-wielding guide through a dense, challenging forest of ideas laced with tangled vines of legal ideology. We recommend his book to readers with prior knowledge of the progress of human rights and U.S. civil liberties, as well as social and legal philosophy. It is a notch thick for good cocktail party conversation or easy undergraduate debate. However, it exemplifies Dershowitz's vivid thought process and powerful command of social philosophy. Dershowitz and other civil libertarians feel constantly compelled to challenge any court rulings or majority-held opinions that even remotely hint of infringing on real or perceived personal rights. This book fully explains why.

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