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The Tracking Theory of Rights

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The Tracking Theory of Rights

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This book advances a novel theory of rights – of the directionality of duties – namely, the tracking theory.

In debates over rights, two perennial theories have dominated: the interest theory and the will theory. At a very broad-brush level, the interest theory sees rights as having the function of protecting the interests of the right-holder, in some specified way, while the will theory locates that function in giving control over the correlative duty to the right-holder. Hybrid theorists, meanwhile, attempt to partake of the obvious virtues of each of these theories by finding an integral role for both the right-holder's interests and their control, in an especial way to be delineated in the course of this book. This book articulates and defends my own hybrid theory of rights. It is the tracking theory of rights.

This book will be of interest to academics and advanced students in legal theory and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I: Core
1. Tracking
2. Counterexamples

Part II: Alternatives
3. Refinements
4. Evaluation

Part III: Deeper
5. Surrogacy
6. Defectiveness

Product details

Published 24 Dec 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Pages 272
ISBN 9781509942268
Imprint Hart Publishing
Dimensions 234 x 156 mm
Series Law and Practical Reason
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Mark McBride

Mark McBride is Associate Professor of Law at the…

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