The Idea of Rights

Date

1989

Citation

A. E. Dick Howard, The Idea of Rights, in Les Droits de l’Homme and Scientific Progress, Smithsonian Institution Press, 12 (1989).

UVA Law Faculty Affiliations

A. E. Dick Howard

Center for International & Comparative Law

Constitutional Law and Legal History

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