Legislated Rights - Securing Human Rights Through Legislation

Argues that legislatures are necessary for securing human rights, and opposes theories that locate that responsibility primarily with courts.

List of contents

1. Introduction: securing human rights through legislation; 2. Rights and persons; 3. Why it takes law to realise human rights; 4. Legislation as reasoned action; 5. From universal rights to legislated rights; 6. How legislation aids human rights adjudication; 7. Majoritarianism and pathologies of judicial review.

About the author

Grégoire Webber is Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen's University, Ontario and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.Paul Yowell is the Benn Fellow in Law at Oriel College, University of Oxford.Richard Ekins is Tutorial Fellow in Law at St John's College, University of Oxford.Maris Köpcke is Lecturer in Law at the Universitat de Barcelona.Bradley W. Miller is Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Canada.Francisco J. Urbina is Assistant Professor of Law at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Summary

Explores how legislatures are able to secure human rights through legislation specifying rights and duties, and the institutional capacities that promote this aim. It opposes theories that place the main or sole responsibility for protecting human rights with courts, showing that legislatures can provide modes of protection that courts cannot provide.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Ekins, Richard (St John's College Ekins, Richard (University of Oxford) Ekins, Ekins Richard, Maris (Universitat de Barcelona) Koepcke, Maris (Universitat de Barcelona) Kopcke, Maris Köpcke, Bradley W. Miller, Miller Bradley W., Francisco J. Urbina, Francisco J. (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Urbina, Gregoire Webber, Grégoire Webber, Gregoire (Queen's University Webber, Gregoire (Queen''s University Webber, Gr'goire Webber, Paul Yowell, Paul (Oriel College Yowell, Paul (University of Oxford) Yowell
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781108426572
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42657-2
• No. of pages: 218
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, Human rights, civil rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties