Rights and Right-Holding presents a rigorous philosophical investigation of the two phenomena mentioned in its title. The book engages with a number of key topics, including the Hohfeldian analysis of legal and moral positions and the longstanding debates between the Interest Theory of right-holding and the Will Theory of right-holding.

Matthew H. Kramer is Professor of Legal & Political Philosophy at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He is the Director of the Cambridge Forum for Legal & Political Philosophy, and he has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2014. His work covers numerous areas of political, moral, and legal philosophy. He is the author of nineteen books (three of them co-authored), and he is the co-editor of four additional books.