This pioneering volume explores the long-neglected history of social rights, from the Middle Ages to the present. It debunks the myth that social rights are 'se

A pioneering study in the history of social rights, filling a significant gap in human rights scholarship and practice.

First published in 1987. This study is concerned with the problem of political obligation, the normative question of why one should obey the law, and with socia

Mr Dunn addresses the central questions of political philosophy from an unusually broad variety of perspectives.

First published in 1990. The individual’s obligation to obey the law, the state and the government is a fundamental part of contemporary political theory. The