Where do our rights come from? Does "natural law" really exist outside of what is written in constitutions and legal statutes? If so, why are rights not the same everywhere and in all eras? On the other hand, if rights are nothing more than the product of human law, why should we ever allow them to override the popular will? In Rights from Wrongs , renowned legal scholar Alan Dershowitz puts forward a wholly new and compelling answer to this age-old dilemma: Rights, he argues, do not come from God, nature, logic, or law alone. They arise out of particular human experiences with injustice. Rights from Wrongs is the first book to propose a theory of rights that emerges not from a theory of perfect justice but from its opposite: from the bottom up, from trial and error, and from our collective experience of injustice. Human rights come from human wrongs. "[Dershowitz's] underlying theory is one that can be neutrally applied by people residing at all positions within the political spectrum.... Perhaps if his views were understood by more people, there would be both a toning down of the political rhetoric." - Tampa Tribune

艾倫•德肖維茨，美國著名法學傢。在辛普森殺妻案、剋林頓絆聞案與彈劾案、泰森案等一係列備受矚目的案件中擔任辯護律師，同時也是專欄作傢、演說傢、書評傢與暢銷書作傢，知名度遍及世界，被譽為「當代最偉大的人權律師」。代錶作包括《最好的辯護》《大法官的偏見》《性的麥卡锡主義》《法律創世記》《虐待的藉口》《緻年輕律師的信》。