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Zusatztext 'Dr Adenitire's path-breaking and thought-provoking book provides the most methodologically rigorous defence of normative and interpretative claims to a qualified right to exemption from any legal obligation on conscientious grounds, not limited to religious matters, under the laws of liberal societies, including the current law of the USA, Canada, the ECHR and the UK. Its challenge to received opinion should be read by policy-makers, lawyers and political theorists.' David Feldman, Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, and Emeritus Fellow, Downing College, Cambridge Informationen zum Autor John Adenitire is a Strategic Lecturer in the School of Law at Queen Mary, University of London. He completed his PhD at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He has researched at Cambridge, Durham, Birmingham, the UCL Constitution Unit, the Bingham Centre and the UK Commission on a Bill of Rights. Zusammenfassung The book argues that there is a general right to conscientiously object to any legal obligation whatsoever on the basis of religious or non-religious conscientious beliefs in US, Canadian and UK law. The book provides a liberal and value-pluralist defence of the general right. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The General Right to Conscientious Exemption in US Law; 3. The General Right to Conscientious Exemption in US Law: Beyond Religious Privilege? 4. The General Right to Conscientious Exemption in Canadian Law; 5. The General Right to Conscientious Exemption in Canadian Law: Beyond Religious Privilege?; 6. The General Right to Conscientious Exemption in UK Law; 7. The General Right to Conscientious Exemption in UK Law: Beyond Religious Privilege? 8. The Liberal Model of Conscientious Exemptions; 9. Balancing the General Right with Sexual Orientation Discrimination; 10. Conclusion.
