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103Associative Allegiances and Political ObligationsSocial Theory and Practice 23 (2): 181-204. 1997.
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330Liberalism, Samaritanism, and Political LegitimacyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 25 (3): 211-237. 1996.
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189Gratitude as a virtuePacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (3). 1999.In my view, gratitude is better understood as a virtue than as a source of duties. In addition to showing how virtue theory provides a better match for our moral phenomenology of gratitude, I argue that recent work in the area of the suberogatory, our considered judgments concerning the role of third parties, our reluctance to posit claim‐rights to gratitude, and the observations of preceding studies of the subject all lend support to my contention that the language of duties is ill‐suited to de…Read more
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57A Defense of Stiffer Penalties for Hate CrimesHypatia 21 (2): 62-80. 2006.After defining a hate crime as an offense in which the criminal selects the victim at least in part because of an animus toward members of the group to which the victim belongs, this essay surveys the standard justifications for state punishment en route to defending the permissibility of imposing stiffer penalties for hate crimes. It also argues that many standard instances of rape and domestic battery are hate crimes and may be punished as such.
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240Relational facts in liberal political theory: Is there magic in the pronoun 'my'?Ethics 110 (3): 537-562. 2000.
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15Liberalism, Samaritanism, and Political LegitimacyPhilosophy and Public Affairs 25 (3): 211-237. 1996.
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85The paradox of group autonomySocial Philosophy and Policy 20 (2): 265-285. 2003.This essay explores the prospects of developing a satisfying account of group autonomy without rejecting value-individualism. That is, I will examine whether one can adequately explain the moral reasons to respect a group's claim to self-determination while insisting that only individual persons are of ultimate moral value
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Amnesties and international lawIn Larry May & Emily Crookston (eds.), War: Essays in Political Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. 2008.
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6JusticeIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: Utilitarianism Rawls Libertarianism Post‐Rawlsian Egalitarianism The Bounds of Justice Beyond Justice as Distribution Conclusion Acknowledgments References.
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23A Theory of SecessionCambridge University Press. 2005.First published in 2005, A Theory of Secession: The Case for Political Self-Determination offers an unapologetic defense of the right to secede. Christopher Heath Wellman argues that any group has a moral right to secede as long as its political divorce will leave it and the remainder state in a position to perform the requisite political functions. He explains that there is nothing contradictory about valuing legitimate states, while permitting their division. Once political states are recogniz…Read more
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72Reinterpreting Rawls's the law of peoplesSocial Philosophy and Policy 29 (1): 213-232. 2012.Research Articles Christopher Heath Wellman, Social Philosophy and Policy, FirstView Article
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46In this book, Christopher Heath Wellman offers original theories of political legitimacy and our obligation to obey the law, and then, building upon these accounts, defends a number of distinctive positions concerning the rights and responsibilities individual citizens, separatist groups, and political states have regarding one another
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6Freedom of Movement and the Rights to Enter and ExitIn Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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174A defense of stiffer penalties for hate crimesHypatia 21 (2): 62-80. 2006.: After defining a hate crime as an offense in which the criminal selects the victim at least in part because of an animus toward members of the group to which the victim belongs, this essay surveys the standard justifications for state punishment en route to defending the permissibility of imposing stiffer penalties for hate crimes. It also argues that many standard instances of rape and domestic battery are hate crimes and may be punished as such.
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99Procedural rightsLegal Theory 20 (4): 286-306. 2014.In this essay, I argue that absent special circumstances, there are no moral, judicial procedural rights. I divide this essay into four main sections. First, I argue that there is no general moral right against double jeopardy. Next, I explain why punishing a criminal without first establishing her guilt via a fair trial does not necessarily violate her rights. In the third section, I respond to a number of possible objections. And finally, I consider the implications of my arguments for the hum…Read more
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200Do states have the right to prevent potential immigrants from crossing their borders, or should people have the freedom to migrate and settle wherever they wish? Christopher Heath Wellman and Phillip Cole develop and defend opposing answers to this timely and important question.
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