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Relatively recently, however, another way of looking at the law has been gaining in popularity. This view does not focus on rules that guide our behavior but rather on the interests of the human beings that the law aims to protect. This view, requiring more than just compliance with the rules, requires that the rules have a certain content, that they should aim at the pursuance of the interests of human beings, that they should be interpreted in a way that furthers these interests, and that rules that definitively run counter to human interests should be discarded. One such way of thinking is couched in the term human rights.

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  1. Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Gustavo Arosemena

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  1. Foundations and Methods of Law, Maastricht University Faculty of Law, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Jaap Hage

  2. Private Law, Maastricht University Faculty of Law, Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Bram Akkermans

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Arosemena, G. (2014). Human Rights. In: Hage, J., Akkermans, B. (eds) Introduction to Law. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06910-4_12

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