Sandra Fredman

Comparative Human Rights Law

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An essential overview of the comparative study of human rights law. This book will introduce students, academics, and legal practitioners to the aims and methods of approaching human rights from a comparative perspective.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 173mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9780199689408
• ISBN-10: 0199689407
• Artikelnr.: 54470570

Autorenporträt

Sandra Fredman is Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and became a QC (honoris causa) in 2012. She is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford. She has acted as an expert adviser on equality law and labour legislation in the EU, Northern Ireland, the UK, India, South Africa, Canada, and the UN; and is a barrister practising at Old Square Chambers. She founded the Oxford Human Rights Hub in 2012, of which she is the Director.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I
1: Foreign Fads or Fashions: The Role of Comparativism in Human Rights Law
2: What is a Human Right? Dealing with Disagreement
3: Challenging the Divide: Socio-economic Rights as Human Rights
4: Allies or Subversives: Adjudication and Democracy
5: Interpreting Human Rights Law
Part II
6: Capital Punishment
7: Abortion
8: The Right to Health
9: The Right to Housing
10: Freedom of Speech
11: The Right to Education
12: Freedom of Religion
13: Conclusion