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Rights Talk

Rights Talk is a form of discursive practice within legal and moral philosophy that employs the language of rights to articulate claims, with its distinguishing feature being the emphasis on individual entitlements as the primary basis for moral or legal justification.

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92

Authors

61

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2017–2026

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Publications

90

Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse

Charles J. Reid, Mary Ann Glendon · Journal of Law and Religion · 2001 · 674 citations

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Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse.

Stewart Burns, Mary Ann Glendon · Journal of American History · 1992 · 600 citations

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Putting the ‘rights‐based approach’ to development into perspective

Andréa Cornwall, Celestine Nyamu‐Musembi · Third World Quarterly · 2004 · 417 citations · Full text

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Rightful Resistance

Kevin J. O’Brien · World Politics · 1996 · 321 citations

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Rights Talk and the Experience of Law: Implementing Women's Human Rights to Protection from Violence

Sally Engle Merry · Human Rights Quarterly · 2003 · 309 citations

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Authors

92

  1. RA
    Richard Ashby Wilson

    University of Connecticut, United States

    3 publications · 195 citations

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  2. MA
    Mary Ann Glendon

    University of Notre Dame, United States

    3 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. JE
    Juanita Elias

    University of Warwick, United Kingdom

    2 publications · 93 citations

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  4. KM
    Karen M. Tani

    California University of Pennsylvania, United States

    2 publications · 32 citations

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  5. MM
    Mahmood Mamdani

    Columbia University, United States

    2 publications · 141 citations

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Institutions

61

  1. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    51 citations

  2. DePaul University

    Chicago, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    31 citations

  3. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    83 citations

  4. University of Toronto

    Toronto, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    45 citations

  5. University of Connecticut

    Storrs, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    142 citations

  6. University of KwaZulu-Natal

    Durban, South Africa

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    37 citations

  7. McMaster University

    Hamilton, Canada

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    44 citations

  8. Boston College

    Boston, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    28 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 9 publications · 756 citations

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  2. Law & Society Review

    4 publications · 142 citations

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  3. Human Rights Quarterly

    3 publications · 410 citations

    3

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  4. SSRN Electronic Journal

    Repository · 3 publications · 50 citations

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  5. Journal of Law and Religion

    JLREL · 2 publications · 699 citations

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