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Obligations: New Trajectories in Law\xa0(Routledge, 2021)\xa0critically analyses the role that obligations play in law and social ordering. As rights have become\xa0preeminent feature in modern societies,\xa0the work that obligations do has\xa0faded into the background. However, in his latest book, Professor\xa0Scott Veitch challenges the normative assumptions that shape law and social practices, and shows how obligations and practices of obedience are core to sustaining the inequalities faced by members of the global community. In doing so, Veitch explores the potential and enduring role\xa0that obligations have in furthering individual and collective well-being. He offers an alternative trajectory for the current crises faced by all citizens today, including\xa0environmental degradation and human inequality and injustice.\xa0\nThis is an important book. It will allow the reader to rethink the dominant model of human rights, and enable understandings of alternative complementary trajectories of obligations. An understanding of the universalism of obligations and the asymmetries and obediences that obligations\xa0create has the potential to better prioritise human and environmental needs, common goods, and solidarity.\xa0\nProfessor\xa0Scott Veitch\xa0is the\xa0Paul K C Chung Professor in Jurisprudence in the Department of Law at the University of Hong Kong.\xa0He was educated in Scotland and\xa0has worked at universities in Australia and the United Kingdom, and was formerly Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow. He has held visiting academic positions in South Africa, New Zealand, Belgium, France and the Basque country. His\xa0area of research is jurisprudence broadly defined, and his work draws on historical, philosophical and sociological insights into law and legal institutions.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law