From: Jason W
Neyers <jneyers@uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday
5 March 2025 15:31
To: obligations
Subject: ODG:
Wrongs and Rights Come Apart.
Dear
Colleagues:
Congratulations
go out to ODGer Nicolas Cornell who has recently completed his book Wrongs
and Rights Come Apart with HUP. The book is the culmination of a
project that he has been working on for many years. Here is the
description:
It is commonplace to regard rights and wrongs
as mirror images of each other: to be wronged, we think, is to have one's
rights violated. According to this familiar picture of the moral landscape,
there is an inescapable relationship between our claims on others and our
complaints against them. Indeed, if to have a right means just that one can
reasonably claim redress for being wronged, then there is really nothing
separating wrongs and rights.
Legal scholar and philosopher Nicolas Cornell
rejects this view. He argues that although wrongs and rights often correspond
and overlap, they diverge systematically in a range of contexts and play
substantively different roles in our lives. Wrongs are not merely the outline
left where rights have been taken away, and rights are more than just the
glimmer of future liability.
To make its case, Wrongs and Rights Come
Apart engages a variety of examples from literature, legal cases, moral
philosophy, and contemporary culture. In accessible, lively prose, Cornell
explores topics such as illicit promises, forgiveness, animal rights, and
economic exploitation. It turns out that potential wrongs - unlike rights - do not
determine how we ought to conduct ourselves. And crucially, rights - unlike
wrongs - do not tell us what corrective action is appropriate after a violation.
Only by seeing rights and wrongs as distinct concepts, Cornell concludes, can
we do justice to the richness of our interpersonal obligations.
A 20%
discount is available using the code outlined below.
Happy
Reading,
Jason Neyers
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law
Western University
Law Building Rm 26
e. jneyers@uwo.ca
t. 519.661.2111 (x88435)
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