Subsidiarity

This Element is titled subsidiarity, which is popular in scholarship about international law due to its role in the European Union (EU). It concerns on how to establish, allocate, or use authority within a social or legal order, stating a rebuttable presumption for the local.

List of contents

1. Introduction; Part I. Historical and Systematic Accounts of Subsidiarity: 2. Traditions of subsidiarity: patterns, practices, principles; 3. Elements of subsidiarity; 4. Theories of subsidiarity; 5. Modest conclusions; Part II. Subsidiarity in International Law: 6. Subsidiarity - a general principle of law?; 7. Inter-systemic coherence: human rights and state sovereignty; 8. Inter-systemic coherence: subsidiarity in the European union; 9. Intra-systemic coherence and subsidiarity: human rights in Europe; 10. Conclusions; References.

Product details

• Authors: Andreas Follesdal, Andreas (University of Oslo) Follesdal, Follesdal Andreas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9781108995238
• ISBN: 978-1-108-99523-8
• No. of pages: 100
• Series: Elements in Philosophy of Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, social and political philosophy, EU (European Union), Public international law: human rights, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Indigenous people: governance and politics