The Evolution of Human Rights

Alin mc algan is a professor of human rights law at king's college london. He argues that the common law does it better than imported structures of rights. But isn't the problem with the common law that its focus on property in particular, serves to protect the interests of the wealthy? And if you look at an area such as crimination law, the common law was terrible. It did not deal with race discrimination. It was helpless in the face of sex discrimination. Can the argument be upheld in the american case, where exactly these same issues had to be dealt with, and exactly theseSame issues were resolved. I think one of the points that's being missed here is