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Engle on Rights & Law

By Lawrence Solum

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Eric Engle (Harvard University - Harvard Law School and Universität Bremen) has posted Taking the Right Seriously: Hohfeldian Semiotics and Rights Discourse on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

    A key characteristic of contemporary legal thought is "rights discourse". I argue that most rights' discourses fail to persuade due to unscientific conceptual apparatus and mythological counterfactual views of reality. The term "right" like the term "law" is polysemic and ambiguous; due to overlap between the terms "right" and "law" most rights discourse is doomed to incoherent failure. Though most rights discourse is doomed to futility and irrelevance that isn't because of some fatal flaw in the idea of the rule of law or of logic being somehow inevitably indeterminate. A dialectics of rights is possible. Legal science can and should extirpate ambiguity, polysemicity, and confusion from rights discourse so as to compel dialectical resolution of the conflict over what is right and what rights are.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on July 03, 2009 (boomark / email).

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