Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The perennial and dynamic relationship between human rights and natural law Mark Retter, Tom Angier and Iain T. Benson; Part I. Natural Law and the Origins of Human Rights: 2. Natural law and human rights: continuities and discontinuities Cary J. Nederman and Ben Peterson; 3. The paradox of shrinking individuality: natural rights' development and relevance to human rights today Mónica García-Salmones; 4. Synderesis, Conscientia and human rights Kevin L. Flannery, S. J.; 5. The case against the marriage of natural law and natural rights Tracey Rowland; 6. The mythical connection between natural law and the universal declaration of human rights James Chappel; 7. Natural law and the universal declaration of human rights Paul Yowell; Part II. Natural Law Foundations of Human Rights Obligations: 8. Ontological and epistemological foundations of human rights Tom Angier; 9. The Teleological Foundations of Human Rights Edward Feser; 10. New natural law foundations of human rights Christopher Tollefsen; 11. A personalist foundation for natural law and human rights Josef Seifert; 12. Acknowledged dependence, natural rights, and human rights: Augustinian humility, Charles Malik, and the universal declaration Mary M. Keys and Melody Grubaugh; 13. Eternal law, natural law, natural rights: freedom and power in Aquinas Jean Porter; Part III. Natural Law and Human Rights within Religious Traditions; 14. Natural law, natural theology, and human rights in the Jewish tradition David Novak; 15. Natural law and human rights in Catholic Christianity Roland Minnerath; 16. Natural law and natural rights in the early Protestant tradition John Witte, Jr.; 17. Human rights or moral obligations?: the link with natural law in Hinduism Shashi Motilal and Jeremiah Dumai; Part IV. The Human Person, Political Community and Rule of Law: 18. Human dignity and natural law Patrick Lee and Robert P. George; 19. Civic friendship, natural law and natural right John von Heyking; 20. Common goods, group rights and human rights Mark D. Retter; 21. Natural law, human rights and the separation of powers Julian Rivers; 22. Human goods and human rights law: two modes of derivation from natural law Grégoire Webber; 23. Natural law, human rights, and Jus Cogens Stephen Hall; Part V. Rival Interpretations and Interpretive Principles: 24. Moral pluralism, political disagreement and human rights Catherine McCauliff; 25. Human rights law and adjudication: the role of Determinatio Francisco J. Urbina; 26. Natural law and human rights amid the legal ruins of liberal scepticism, values language and global resets Iain T. Benson; 27. Human rights and the modes of judicial responsibility Peter D. Lauwers; 28. The right to religious freedom: extension or erosion? Rafael Domingo; 29. Natural law, rights of the family, and international human rights instruments Jane F. Adolphe; 30. Natural law and socioeconomic rights Gary Chartier; 31. Solidarity and global allocation of COVID-19 vaccines: a question of equality? Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky; Part VI. Challenges and Future Prospects: 32. Philosophical challenges and prospects for natural law foundations of human rights Jonathan Crowe.

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About the Author

Tom Angier is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Cape Town. He is the author of Natural Law Theory and editor of The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics. Iain T. Benson is Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, Australia; Extraordinary Professor, University of the Free State, South Africa; and a Barrister. He co-drafted the South African Charter of Religious Rights and Freedoms (2010) and has published extensively on constitutional law, human rights, conscience, religion, and pluralism. Mark Retter is Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, pursuing research on human rights in modernity and secularisation. He is co-editor of the International Law and Peace Settlements.