Human Rights in the Private Sphere

ISBN-13: 9780198764311 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 424 str.

Andrew Clapham

Opis

The application of international human rights law to the private sphere has implications for the worlds of labor relations, race relations, discrimination and violence against women, and for victims of indignities everywhere. This study shows that respect for privacy need not mean excluding wrongs in the private sphere from the world of human rights. Concentrating on the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights, and their enforcement in the courts of the United Kingdom, it develops a coherent approach to human rights in the private sphere. In particular it challenges the presumption that the fundamental rights and freedoms contained in the European Convention on Human Rights are irrelevant for cases which concern the sphere of relations between individuals.

Recenzje

'adventuresome and timely book...his book's lesson surely transcends its regional boundaries....This is no dry account by an unconcerned observer....The book's detail impresses the reader....In exploring such matters, Clapham argues and writes like a highly skilled common lawyer....Clapham's book achieves a great deal in advancing knowledge and insight about a vital aspect of the human rights movement that had remained surprisingly arcane over the years - all too "private." One looks forward to the next project of a scholar with such an appetite for the difficult and such a capacity for exhaustive research, probing analysis and moral engagement.'