The nature, ground, and legal expression of a right to freedom of association

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dc.contributor.authorLudwig, Kirken
dc.contributor.editorCahill, Maria
dc.contributor.editorÓ Conaill, Seán
dc.contributor.editorNewman, Dwight
dc.contributor.editorMcIntyre, Ruairí
dc.contributor.editorLasagni, Giulia
dc.contributor.editorKhasri, Aoif
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Councilen
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-08T14:45:08Z
dc.date.available2025-09-08T14:45:08Z
dc.date.issued2025en
dc.description.abstractWhat is a right to freedom of association? In asking this, I am not asking what the various legally codified rights regarding freedom of association are in one or another jurisdiction or what they may have in common. My project is not descriptive. That is, it is not an investigation into extant legal practices. 2 I intend to be asking a more general, extra-legal question. I am interested, specifically, in connection with thinking about freedom of association as a fundamental human value, in the grounding and logical form of a moral right to freedom of association. I take the content of the moral right to freedom of association to have some bearing on how we should think about designing a legal right to freedom of association – though, as I will argue, it is not entirely straightforward how to work out its implications. My method will be analytical. What are the elements that go into the concept of freedom of association? How do they interact? What is the source of the moral value of freedom of association? In accordance with this, I structure the investigation around three more specific interconnected questions.(1) What do we mean by freedom in this context? What is its structure and limits? (2) What kinds of association do we have in mind? (3) What can ground a moral right to freedom of association?en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.citationLudwig, K. (2025) 'The nature, ground, and legal expression of a right to freedom of association', Societās Working Paper 35/2025 (24pp). Cork: School of Law, University College Cork.en
dc.identifier.endpage24en
dc.identifier.issued35
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/17847
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSchool of Law, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofSocietās: Exploring the Value of Freedom of Association
dc.relation.ispartofGlobal Perspectives on Freedom of Association Collection
dc.relation.ispartofSocietās Working Paper Series
dc.rights© 2025, the Author(s). Views expressed do not represent the views of the Societās project or the School of Law at UCC.en
dc.subjectFreedom of associationen
dc.subjectRighten
dc.titleThe nature, ground, and legal expression of a right to freedom of associationen
dc.typeWorking paperen
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