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Liberal Theories of the Resolution of Conflicts between Human Rights
Broz, Jan ; Kysela, Jan (advisor) ; Ondřejek, Pavel (referee) ; Hapla, Martin (referee)
Liberal Theories of the Resolution of Conflicts between Human Rights This dissertation is based on two factual assumptions: (i) The existence of conflicts between human rights, which is determined by both the competitive pluralism of human rights and the existence of effective judicial mechanisms articulating the existence of these conflicts. (ii) The existence of a deep interrelationship between the concept of human rights and the concept of liberalism, which influences both structural and substantive aspects of human rights practice. Building on the assumptions just outlined, the aim of this paper is to analyse different ways of practical reasoning about the resolution of human rights conflicts in relation to the liberal human rights ethos. The first two chapters provide the basic conceptual framework relating to the two core concepts of this thesis. The first chapter, devoted to models and theories of rights, introduces Hohfeld's model of the analysis of rights as the most effective way of capturing the two competing theories of rights, namely will (choice) and interest (benefit) theory of rights. The use of Hohfeld's model shows that it is intuitively appropriate to understand the accepted concept of liberty as so-called bilateral liberty.At the same time, the analysis of the two competing...
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