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Updated 15 June 2021 In What’s wrong with rights? (OUP, 2020) Nigel Biggar addresses questions about the legitimacy of ‘rights’-talk in its various forms—natural, moral, legal, universal, and absolute. He concludes that such talk obscures the importance of fostering civic virtue, corrodes military effectiveness, subverts the democratic legitimacy of law, proliferates publicly onerous rights, and undermines its own authority and…
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In the 12 October 2020 Comment for The Times, Nigel Biggar reasons with concern for the way the Strasbourg court has viewed military operations overseas. Challenging the ruling that “what applies in peacetime Birmingham also applies in anarchical Basra,” Biggar argues that rights must be applied prudentially with reference both to the context and by measure rather…
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The London Times recently published a letter from the Director of the McDonald Centre relating to the aftermath of the terrorist attack in Paris on January 7.
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On 14 December 2009, Nigel Biggar addressed The Westminster Forum on the topic, ‘Forgiving Enemies in Northern Ireland.’ A response was offered by Lord Trimble, former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.