 Recently, theorists have attempted to make progress on the question of the function of rights by scrutinizing the claim-right in particular, and by shifting attention onto the duty that corresponds to it. As above, on the standard account what is distinctive about the claim-right is that a duty-bearer’s duty is “directed at” or “owed to” the right-holder. (The promisor, for example, owes a duty of performance to the promisee.) Yet what could account for the directionality of such “directed duties”? (May 2015)