Essays on Human Rights

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1. Arguments for a theory of social rights.

2. Constitution, human rights and philosophy of law: A theory of justice for contemporary constitutionalism.

3. Women in the 20^th century. The equality challenge in regulation and case law.

4. Rights of indigenous people from the classics.

5. A review of the idea of human dignity and the values of freedom, equality and solidarity in relation to the foundation or rights.

6. Disability, normality, and human rights.

7. On the interpretation of human rights law.

8. Transitional justice, criminal prosecution and amnesties.

9. Tradition and freedoms (The manifesto of the Persians and traditionalist restoration)

10. Moral words in constitutions. A matter of readings.

11. Social rights, for whom? On the university of social rights.

12. Law, literature and fiction. Literature in the teaching of human rights.

13. The crisis and the dismantling of the rule of law: from rights to privileges.

14. Human genome and human rights.

15. The legacy of the 20^th Century: the inclusion of disability in the human rights discourse.

16. Human dignity beyond value.

17. Some strategies for cosmopolitan virtue.

18. Legal moralims, paternalism, and human rights: the devlin-hart debate.

19. Poverty as violation of human rights.

20. New rights debate? Reasons not to resist.

21. Freedom of expression in times of crisis. An approach from the philosophy of law.

22. Anarchy and human rights in the 20^th Century.

23. Forced sterilization on people with intellectual disability. Is it a question of paternalism or restriction of individual autonomy?