Read more
Zusatztext It is difficult to do justice to the comprehensive and thought-provoking essays contained in Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights: Perspectives from Germany and the UK in a short review. The volume demonstrates that two different jurisdictions face many of the same challenges, despite their differences. The essays collectively demonstrate that much can be learned from considering constitutional issues and the impact of human rights on legal systems from an international and comparative perspective. The comprehensive discourse and discussion contained in the collection is very welcome and certainly shows the need to encourage such dialogue in the future. Informationen zum Autor Katja S Ziegler is Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at the University of Leicester. Peter M Huber is Professor of Law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany. Zusammenfassung While the legal systems of the United Kingdom and Germany differ in essential respects, the current process of 'constitutionalisation' is well recognised on both sides of the Channel. Using human rights law as a good example of this process, the aim of this book is to provide a comparative UK-German perspective on recent developments. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights – Perspectives from Germany and the UK Katja S Ziegler and Peter M Huber Part One Constitutionalisation by Human Rights in Specific Areas of Law 2. Human Rights and Criminal Law: An Ambivalent Relationship – Perspectives of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht and the European Court of Human Rights Frank Zimmermann 3. Eroding the Structure of the Convention? The Public Interest in Prosecutions for Serious Crime 31 Andrew Ashworth 4. The 'Constitutionalisation' of Labour Law: Possibilities and Problems ACL Davies 5. The Human Rights Act 1998, Horizontality and the Constitutionalisation of Private Law Alison L Young 6. Constitutionalisation of the Freedom of Contract in European Union Law Carsten Herresthal 7. Anti-discrimination Legislation – A Paradigm Shift in the Protection of Human Rights? Peter M Huber 8. The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Development of Administrative Law in the United Kingdom Anthony Bradley Part Two Balancing Human Rights 9. Human Rights Protection in Multipolar Legal Relationships Sophie-Charlotte Lenski 10. Empirical Research in Rights-based Judicial Review of Legislation Paul Yowell Part Three Absolute Rights: The Example of Human Dignity 11. 'Human Dignity Shall Be Inviolable' – Dealing with a Constitutional Taboo Sebastian Unger 12. The National Identity of the Member States in Europe and the Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Starting from Omega Jan Kalbheim Part Four Human Rights and Anti-terrorism Measures 13. Preventive Information Search by the Police as an Anti-terrorism Measure – The German Perspective Foroud Shirvani 14. Terrorism, Secrecy and Human Rights Patrick Birkinshaw ...
