Obligations: New Trajectories in Law

Obligations: New Trajectories in Law is a book that examines the role of obligations in contemporary legal and social practices, challenging the dominant image of rights and highlighting their significance in sustaining conditions of inequality and furthering individual and collective well-being.

Format: Hardback
Length: 124 pages
Publication date: 24 February 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Obligations: New Trajectories in Law provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of the role of obligations in contemporary legal and social practices. In the context of a dominant discourse that has prioritized rights, the study of obligations has often been overshadowed. This book seeks to rectify this imbalance by bringing obligations back into focus in a way that better aligns with the realities of modern social life.

The book begins by tracing the historical evolution of obligations, highlighting their shifting place and priorities in modernity. It then delves into the core mechanisms through which obligations and practices of obedience contribute to the perpetuation of inequality. However, it also explores the enduring role that obligations play in promoting individual and collective well-being, emphasizing their significance in practices that prioritize human and environmental needs, common goods, and solidarity.

By offering an alternative and cogent assessment of the force and potential of obligations in contemporary societies, this book makes a valuable jurisprudential contribution to an academic and student readership in law, politics, and the social sciences. It sheds light on the complex interplay between rights and obligations, challenging the notion that they are mutually exclusive and suggesting that a more nuanced understanding of these concepts is necessary for building more just and equitable societies.

Weight: 280g
Dimension: 142 x 222 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367345983