Human Rights and the Protection of Privacy in Tort Law - A Comparison Between English and German Law

Informationen zum Autor Hans-Joachim Cremer is Professor of Public Law and Legal Philosophy at the University of Mannheim since 2000. He earned his doctorate at the University of Heidelberg. His dissertation on legal protection against expulsion and deportation won the University's Ruprecht Karl's Award in 1995. In 1999 he completed his Habilitation at Heidelberg. His post-doctoral thesis investigates the methodology of constitutional interpretation. Klappentext Considers how English courts could possibly use and adapt structures adopted by the German legal order in response to rulings from the European Court of Human Rights! to strengthen the protection of privacy in the private sphere. Zusammenfassung This book considers how English courts could use and adapt structures adopted by the German legal order in response to rulings from the European Court of Human Rights on Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights, to strengthen the protection of privacy in the private sphere. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Aspects of Comparison and the European Convention on Human Rights in the Context of German Law 2. The European Court of Human Rights’ Caroline von Hannover Judgment and its Reverberations 3. Drittwirkung under the ECHR: Human Rights Obligation of State Authorities and their Influence on Judicial Decisions in Private Law Disputes 4. Drittwirkung of Constitutionally Guaranteed Basic Rights in the German Legal Order 5. Conclusions

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• Authors: Hans-Joachim Cremer, Hans-Joachim (University of Mannheim Cremer, CREMER HANS JOACHIM, Cremer Hans-Joachim
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2010
• EAN: 9780415477048
• ISBN: 978-0-415-47704-8
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law; UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Torts, LAW / Contracts, contract law, Law of torts, damages and compensation, Torts / Delicts