Human Rights and the Private Sphere

A Comparative Study
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-415-44351-7
Verlag: Routledge-Cavendish

Buch, Englisch, 608 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 754 g

Reihe: UT Austin Studies in Foreign and Transnational Law

Particularly valuable for both academics and practitioners, Human Rights and the Private Sphere: A Comparative Study analyzes the interaction between constitutional rights, freedoms and private law. Focusing primarily on civil and political rights, an international team of constitutional and private law experts have contributed a collection of chapters, each based around a different jurisdiction. They include Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, the UK, the US, the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and the European Union. As well as exploring, chapter by chapter, the key topics and debates in each jurisdiction, a comparative analysis draws the sections together; setting-out the common features and differences in the jurisdictions under review and identifies some common trends in this important area of the law. Cross-references between the various chapters and an appendix containing relevant legislative material and translated quotations from important court decisions makes this volume a valuable tool for those studying and working in the field of international human rights law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fedtke, Jorg

Fedtke, Jörg

Oliver, Dawn

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 – Introduction

General Introduction

- Common lines of enquiry

Part 2 – Jurisdiction-based chapters

- European Court of Human Rights: Justice Dean Spielmann (ECtHR)

- European Union: Professor Takis Tridimas (London)

- Denmark: Jonas Christoffersen (Copenhagen)

- France: Dr Myriam Hunter-Henin (London)

- Germany: Dr Jörg Fedtke (London)

- Greece: Christina Akrivopoulou (Thessaloniki)

- India: Professor Mahendra Singh (New Delhi/Singapore)

- Ireland: Mr Colm O’Cinneide (London)

- Israel: Professor Daphne Barak-Erez (Tel Aviv) and Professor Israel Gilead (Jerusalem)

- Italy: Dr Chiara Favilli and Professor Carlo Fusaro (both Florence)

- New Zealand: Professor Paul Rishworth (Auckland)

- South Africa: Dr Jörg Fedtke (London)

- Spain: Andrea Rodríguez Liboreiro (Madrid)

- United Kingdom: Professor Dawn Oliver (London)

- USA and Canada: Professor Eric Barendt (London)

- Hypotheticals



Part 3 Conclusions

- Comparative analysis

- Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

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.