Critique of Proportionality and Balancing

This book offers a comprehensive critique of the principle of proportionality and balancing as applied to human and constitutional rights.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I: 2. The maximisation account of proportionality; 3. The incommensurability objection; 4. Why proportionality?; 5. Proportionality, rights, and legitimate interests; Part II: 6. Proportionality as unconstrained moral reasoning; 7. The need for legal direction in adjudication; 8. Proportionality and the problems of legally unaided adjudication; Part III: 9. Legal human rights.

About the author

Francisco J. Urbina is Assistant Professor of Law at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. His research focuses on human rights, legal reasoning, and public law.

Summary

The principle of proportionality has become the standard test for adjudicating human and constitutional rights disputes in jurisdictions worldwide. This book provides a comprehensive critique of the proportionality principle, and particularly of its most characteristic component, balancing.

Product details

• Authors: Francisco Urbina, Francisco J. Urbina, Francisco J. (Pontificia Universidad Catol Urbina, Francisco J. (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Urbina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781316626818
• ISBN: 978-1-316-62681-8
• No. of pages: 267
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Civil Rights, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law