Based on presentations from the meeting of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, held in conjunction with the Association of American Law Schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 1995. - Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction / Will Kymlicka and Ian Shapiro -- Classifying cultural rights / Jacob T. Levy -- Cultural toleration / Chandran Kukathas -- Response to Kukathas / Michael Walzer -- Human diversity and the limits of toleration / Adeno Addis -- The idea of nonliberal constitutionalism / Graham Walker -- Group rights and ethnicity / Thomas W. Pogge -- Justifying special ethnic group rights: comments on Pogge / S. James Anaya -- Group agency and group rights / James W. Nickel -- Common-law constructions of group autonomy: a case study / Denise G. Réaume -- Tale of two villages (or, legal realism comes to town) / Nomi Stolzenberg -- Deferring group representation / Iris Marion Young -- What is a balanced committee? Democratic theory, public law, and the question of fair representation on quasi-legislative bodies / Andrew Stark -- Self-determination: politics, philosophy, and law / Donald L. Horowitz -- Tribes, regions, and nationalism in democratic Malawi / Deborah Kaspin -- "That time was apartheid, now it's the new South Africa": discourses of race in Ruyterwacht, 1995 / Courtney Jung and Jeremy Seekings -- From ethnic exclusion to ethnic diversity: the Australian path to multiculturalism / John Kane -- Straight gay politics: Limits of an ethnic model of inclusion / Cathy J. Cohen.

Introduction / Will Kymlicka and Ian Shapiro -- Classifying cultural rights / Jacob T. Levy -- Cultural toleration / Chandran Kukathas -- Response to Kukathas / Michael Walzer -- Human diversity and the limits of toleration / Adeno Addis -- The idea of nonliberal constitutionalism / Graham Walker -- Group rights and ethnicity / Thomas W. Pogge -- Justifying special ethnic group rights: comments on Pogge / S. James Anaya -- Group agency and group rights / James W. Nickel -- Common-law constructions of group autonomy: a case study / Denise G. Réaume -- Tale of two villages (or, legal realism comes to town) / Nomi Stolzenberg -- Deferring group representation / Iris Marion Young -- What is a balanced committee? Democratic theory, public law, and the question of fair representation on quasi-legislative bodies / Andrew Stark -- Self-determination: politics, philosophy, and law / Donald L. Horowitz -- Tribes, regions, and nationalism in democratic Malawi / Deborah Kaspin -- "That time was apartheid, now it's the new South Africa": discourses of race in Ruyterwacht, 1995 / Courtney Jung and Jeremy Seekings -- From ethnic exclusion to ethnic diversity: the Australian path to multiculuralism / John Kane -- Straight gay politics: Limits of an ethnic model of inclusion / Cathy J. Cohen