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I accepted the invitation to contribute to this Festschrift for Carl Wellman with both great pleasure and some trepidation: The person being honoured has done so much thinking and writing in the field of legal and social philosophy and human rights, with such persuasion, conviction and commitment that I despair of finding an aspect that he has not put his mark on with his familiar characteristics. Yet I reminded myself that we are both cultivators in the same vineyard, albeit that I both lagged behind him and sought to learn from him. My work for this volume then is made easier by the clear and decisive path cut out by Carl Wellman.
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Tay, A.ES. (2000). Human Rights and Wrongs. In: Friedman, M., May, L., Parsons, K., Stiff, J. (eds) Rights and Reason. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 44. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9403-5_8
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