The theoretical debate about human rights during the nineties is analyzed according to two axis: the political order that grants those rights and the relation between the subject and the rule of law. The ultimate questions those axis point out are: first, the state order and the global order and, second, an institutional conception and a sociological conception about how the subject is related to the rule of law. Four polar positions are, then, identified, along with the theoretical and practical problems they face.
Human rights; juridical order; political order
