I've just posted on SSRN my contribution to a forthcoming festschrift issue, in the Emory Law Review, on the work of the distinguished legal theorist Michael Perry. Here is the abstract:
Michael
Perry’s lifelong project has been to give a philosophical account of human
rights. His claims rest at many points
on controversial and undefended value choices.
They hang together in that all are attractive, and they do not
contradict one another. They forcefully
state a political ideal. But the claims
of entailment are unpersuasive. What he
offers is less a philosophical account than a set of articles of faith.