Rowan Cruft has taught philosophy at the University of Stirling since 2002. He has published articles on the nature and justification of rights and duties, focusing on comparisons between different forms of right: human rights, contractual rights, property rights, legal rights. He is co-editor of Crime, Punishment and Responsibility: the jurisprudence of Antony Duff (OUP 2011), and is currently co-editing OUP’s Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights (forthcoming 2014). This podcast is an audio recording of Rowan's talk - "Why is it Disrespectful to Violate Rights?" - at the Aristotelian Society on 4 March 2013. The recording was produced by Backdoor Broadcasting Company in conjunction with the Institute of Philosophy, University of London.