Henry Richardson
(Georgetown)

• Reading: Thompson

(no class - MLK Day)

Michael Perry
(Emory)

• Reading: Note, Morality and Normativity, Liberal Democracy and Human Rights

Knud Haakonssen At GU Main Campus, NN204
(Sussex)

• Reading: Note, Book II Selected Passages, Books II-III Selected Passages
• Background Reading: Natural Jurisprudence, Protestant Natural Law, Hutcheson and Origin of Animal Rights

John Mikhail
(Georgetown)

• "Bentham's Theory of Fictions and Critique of Natural Rights"
• Readings: Note, Mikhail, Postema, Bentham I, Hart, Bentham II

(no class - President's Day)

David Brink At GU Main Campus, NN204
(UCSD)

• Reading: Note, Mill's Ambivalence About Rights
  

(no class - Spring Break)

Alastair Norcross
(University of Colorado, Boulder)

• Reading: Note, Consequentialism and Commitment
• Other reading: (hard copy only, available in Faculty Support or by request) “Two Dogmas of Deontology: Aggregation, Rights, and the Separateness of Persons"
• L.W. Sumner, “Mill’s Theory of Rights”, in The Blackwell Guide to Mill’s Utilitarianism, Henry West ed. (Blackwell 2006) 184-198
  

Judith Lichtenberg At GU Main Campus, NN204
(Georgetown)

• Reading: Shue's "Basic Rights" Ch 1&2, "Are There Any Basic Rights?"
• Notes to Shue Chapters

Paul Kahn
(Yale)

• Reading: "Evil and Blame," "Out of Eden"

Steve Darwall At GU Main Campus, NN204
(Michigan)

• Reading: Feinberg's "The Nature and Value of Rights" (excerpt)
• Reading: "The Second-Person Standpoint: Respect, Morality, and Accountability" Chapter 1 and Chapter 2

Leif Wenar
(Sheffield/Princeton)

• Reading: "The Analysis of Rights"
• Other Reading: "The Nature of the Claim" (hard copy only, available in Faculty Support or by request)

Gopal Sreenivasan
(Duke)

• A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights
• Optional Reading:Metaphysics, Meaning and Objectivity: Is the Will Theory of Rights Suspended

Christopher Morris At GU Main Campus, NN204
(Maryland)

• Note
• Reading: "Natural Rights and Political Legitimacy"
• Reading: P 1-2 Declaration of Independence
• Reading: Nozick "Anarchy, State, and Utopia"
• Reading: "State Legitimacy and Social Order" (hard copy only, available in Faculty Support or by request)

Margaret Gilbert
(UC Irvine)

• Note
• Scanlon on Promissory Obligation
• A Theory of Political Obligation, Ch. 2
• A Theory of Political Obligation, Ch. 7
• Giving Claim Rights Their Due