This is strangely overlooked by John Kilcullen in his “Medieval and Modern Concepts of Rights: How Do They Differ?”, so that he ends up arguing that natural rights should be recognized just because they are “useful”. Acta Philosophica Fennica, Vol. 87, 2010, pp. 31-62.

has been cited by the following article:

• TITLE: Natural Rights, Morality, and the Law

  AUTHORS: Drum Peter

  KEYWORDS: Rights, Justice, Law, Reasonableness

  JOURNAL NAME: Beijing Law Review, Vol.2 No.1, March 25, 2011

  ABSTRACT: It is argued that despite attempts to discount the importance of natural rights for morality, they are fundamental to it; therefore, so too are natural rights to the legitimacy of the law.