Legislated Rights - Securing Human Rights Through Legislation

Informationen zum Autor 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Richard Ekins, Richard (St John's College Ekins, Ekins Richard, Maris Kopcke, Maris (Universitat de Barcelona) Kopcke, Bradley W. Miller, Miller Bradley W., Francisco J. Urbina, Francisco J. (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) Urbina, Grégoire Webber, Gregoire (Queen's University Webber, Gregoire (Queen''s University Webber, Webber Gregoire, Paul Yowell, Paul W. (Oriel College Yowell, Yowell Paul W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781108445238
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44523-8
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights