ABSTRACT
On several occasions Mark Platts has concerned himself with conceptual problems related with the subject of rights, and particularly human rights. The critics single out—as Platts himself does—certain items from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights itself, or from other tracts or pacts, whose status as genuine rights is dubious. For Platts those of dubious validity include the right to free choice of employment, to protection against unemployment, to just and favorable remuneration, to rest and leisure, to regular holidays with pay, to food, housing and medical care, to education, and to a share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Human rights claims and the judicial application of such claims to concrete cases of alleged violations of rights generated a different way of concreting rights. New rights began to proliferate. The final facet of the phenomenon of the proliferation of human rights is one that particularly worries Platts.
