Human Rights and the Private Sphere vol 1: A Comparative Study

ISBN-13: 9780415423014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 608 str.

Fedtke/Oliver

Opis

Analyzes the interaction between constitutional rights, freedoms and private law. Focusing primarily on civil and political rights, this book contains a collection of chapters, each based around a different jurisdiction. It gives a comparative analysis which draws the sections together.

Spis treści

Part 1: Introduction  General Introduction  1. Common Lines of Enquiry  Part 2: Jurisdiction-based Chapters  2. European Court of Human Rights  3. European Union  4. Denmark  5. France  6. Germany  7. Greece  8. India  9. Ireland  10. Israel  11. Italy  12. South Africa  13. Spain  14. United Kingdom  15. USA and Canada  14. Hypothetical  Part 3 Conclusions  15. Comparative Analysis  16. Conclusions

O autorze

Dawn Oliver is Professor of Constitutional Law at University College London. She is particularly interested in constitutional reform, the UK Human Rights Act 1998, and the public law/private law divide. She recently published Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom (OUP, 2003) and is co-editor of The Changing Constitution (OUP, 6th edn 2007). In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Jörg Fedtke is Reader in Laws at University College London, where he is Director of the Institute of Global Law. He also holds a post as Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches European Union and comparative constitutional law. In 2005 he was invited by the United Nations to act as an external advisor to the constitutional negotiations in Iraq. His research interests are in constitutional law, administrative law, comparative methodology and tort law.