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Fox-Decent & Criddle on the Fiduciary Constitution of Human Rights

By Lawrence Solum

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Evan Fox-Decent and Evan J. Criddle (McGill University - Faculty of Law and Syracuse University College of Law) have posted The Fiduciary Constitution of Human Rights (Legal Theory Forthcoming 2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:
    The authors argue that human rights are best conceived as norms arising from a fiduciary relationship that exists between states (or state-like actors) and the citizens and noncitizens subject to their power. These norms draw on a Kantian conception of moral personhood, protecting agents from instrumentalization and domination. They do not, however, exist in the abstract as timeless natural rights. Instead, they are correlates of the state?s fiduciary duty to provide equal security under the rule of law, a duty that flows from the state?s institutional assumption of irresistible sovereign powers.

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 16, 2010 (boomark / email).

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