The nature of rights

Abstract

The debate between the 'Will Theory' and the 'Interest Theory' of rights is actually a debate over stipulative definitions. I argue how this could have happened, and suggest how we might proceed building a theory of rights.

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Siegfried Van Duffel
Nazarbayev University

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