Lesley Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lesley Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lesley |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selective Adaptation and Human Rights to Health in China
This article advances an alternative paradigm for making judgments about China's compliance with its international obligations in the realm of health and human rights, grounded on the reality that non-local rule regimes are interpreted and applied according to the extent of commonality between the norms underlying these international rule regimes and local cultural norms. This paradigm, "selective adaptation", allows us to determine that China co…
The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism: Paradoxes, Achievements, and Tragedies of Nationhood
Can An Egalitarian Justify Universal Access to Health Care
Etude des differentes strategies egalitaires developpees par R. Dworkin, N. Daniels et T. Pogge en faveur d'une justification d'un acces universel aux soins medicaux. Distinguant les strategies comprehensives fondees sur l'idee d'une egalite des ressources, des strategies minimalistes fondees sur l'idee d'une egalite des chances, l'A. montre qu'aucune d'elles ne justifie l'utilisation des virements en especes qui concretisent le principe d'une ju…
The Enabling Model of Rights
The belief that state welfare programmes are justified because they enable many people to do what they could not otherwise have done is attractive. This article examines the claim that this belief flows logically from a particular account of what it means to have a right to do something. This enabling model of rights holds that rights can be violated in two ways: by interfering with people doing something they have a right to do and depriving the…
Selective Adaptation and Human Rights to Health in China
This article advances an alternative paradigm for making judgments about China's compliance with its international obligations in the realm of health and human rights, grounded on the reality that non-local rule regimes are interpreted and applied according to the extent of commonality between the norms underlying these international rule regimes and local cultural norms. This paradigm, "selective adaptation", allows us to determine that China co…
The Enabling Model of Rights
The belief that state welfare programmes are justified because they enable many people to do what they could not otherwise have done is attractive. This article examines the claim that this belief flows logically from a particular account of what it means to have a right to do something. This enabling model of rights holds that rights can be violated in two ways: by interfering with people doing something they have a right to do and depriving the…
The Enabling Model of Rights
The belief that state welfare programmes are justified because they enable many people to do what they could not otherwise have done is attractive. This article examines the claim that this belief flows logically from a particular account of what it means to have a right to do something. This enabling model of rights holds that rights can be violated in two ways: by interfering with people doing something they have a right to do and depriving the…
Can An Egalitarian Justify Universal Access to Health Care
Etude des differentes strategies egalitaires developpees par R. Dworkin, N. Daniels et T. Pogge en faveur d'une justification d'un acces universel aux soins medicaux. Distinguant les strategies comprehensives fondees sur l'idee d'une egalite des ressources, des strategies minimalistes fondees sur l'idee d'une egalite des chances, l'A. montre qu'aucune d'elles ne justifie l'utilisation des virements en especes qui concretisent le principe d'une ju…
The Moral Foundations of Canadian Federalism: Paradoxes, Achievements, and Tragedies of Nationhood
Selective Adaptation and Human Rights to Health in China
This article advances an alternative paradigm for making judgments about China's compliance with its international obligations in the realm of health and human rights, grounded on the reality that non-local rule regimes are interpreted and applied according to the extent of commonality between the norms underlying these international rule regimes and local cultural norms. This paradigm, "selective adaptation", allows us to determine that China co…
Law (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Health care (2 works) · Human rights (2 works) · Action (physics (1 works) · Adaptation (eye (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works)