This is a philosophical course about the nature of rights, encompassing both moral and legal rights, which at the same time will provide a foundational survey of contemporary Kantian and consequentialist moral philosophy. In the first part, the course considers two familiar kinds of rights: rights against torture and rights of free speech. This provides the class with a context for understanding some of the general, philosophical problems related to the foundations and structure of rights claims, which occupies the second part of the course. Here the class considers both Kantian and consequentialist theories of rights, and the problems each has in accommodating the intuitions that support the other. It then returns to consider more specific examples of rights, including rights to subsistence, democratic rights, and property-related rights (e.g., promissory and compensatory rights).