Where Our Protection Lies - Separation of Powers and Constitutional Review

Should courts be able to scrutinize primary legislation for its compatibility with human rights? Focusing on the value of the separation of powers, Kyritsis offers an innovative discussion of the role of constitutional courts and the scope of judicial review, and a normative theory of the constitutional review of legislative action.

About the author

Dimitrios Kyritsis is an Associate Professor in Law at the University of Reading since 2014. Prior to that he was Lecturer at the University of Sheffield and Hauser Global Law Fellow at New York University. He holds a DPhil from Oxford. His primary research interests are legal philosophy and constitutional theory.

Summary

Should courts be able to scrutinize primary legislation for its compatibility with human rights? Focusing on the value of the separation of powers, Kyritsis offers an innovative discussion of the role of constitutional courts and the scope of judicial review, and a normative theory of the constitutional review of legislative action.

Product details

• Authors: Dimitrios Kyritsis, Dimitrios (Associate Professor in Law Kyritsis, Kyritsis Dimitrios
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780199672257
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967225-7
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, LAW / Government / General, LAW / Judicial Power, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Judicial Review, Parliamentary and legislative practice, Parliamentary & Legislative Practice