Fundamental Rights in Europe: Challenges and Transformations in Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780198702047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 352 str.

Federico Fabbrini

Opis

The European architecture for the protection of fundamental rights combines the legal regimes of the state, the European Union, and the European Convention on Human Rights. The purpose of this book is to analyse the implications of this multilevel architecture and to examine the dynamics that spring from the interaction between different human rights standards in Europe.
The book adopts a comparative approach by comparing the European system with the federal system of the United States. It identifies two recurrent challenges in the interplay between different state and transnational human rights standards - a challenge of ineffectiveness and a challenge of inconsistency. These challenges arise when transnational law operates either as a floor or as a ceiling of protection for a specific human right.
The comparison is explained through four in depth case studies - the right to due process for suspected terrorists, the right to vote for non-citizens, the right to strike and the right to abortion. On the basis of these case studies, the book then seeks to draw a general model for the protection of fundamental rights - so-called 'neo-federal.' This model systematically explains the constitutional dynamics at play in multilevel systems characterized by a plurality of sources and institutions for the protection of fundamental rights.

Recenzje

Fabbrini sets out the critical issues with clarity, and in providing extensive empirical case studies and a comparative methodology, the breadth of his scholarship is impressive. He writes with lucidity and clarity and provides useful summaries at the end of each chapter. This book is a clear and very useful addition to the perplexing topic of human rights protection in Europe, and a signpost for the way forward in the debate.

O autorze

Federico Fabbrini is an Assistant Professor of European & Comparative Constitutional Law with a PhD from European University Institute. His main areas of research are federalism, fundamental rights, separation of powers, economic governance, and global constitutionalism.