Jud Mathews

Extending Rights' Reach

Constitutions, Private Law, and Judicial Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Constitutional rights protect individuals "vertically" against government overreach, but may also regulate legal relations "horizontally" among private parties in most legal systems. In every constitutional system with judicially enforceable constitutional rights, courts must make choices about whether, when, and how to give those rights horizontal effect. This book is about those choices and their consequences. It offers three case studies, of Germany, the UnitedStates, and Canada, showing how the choices courts make about horizontal rights reflect existing normative and political realities and, over time, help to shape new ones.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190682910
• ISBN-10: 0190682914
• Artikelnr.: 49780608

Autorenporträt

Jud Mathews is an Associate Professor of Law at Penn State Law and an Affiliate Professor at Penn State's School of International Affairs. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a Ph.D. in political science from Yale University. This book is based on his dissertation, which received the 2016 Edward S. Corwin Prize from the American Political Science Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Germany's Postwar Constitution
Chapter Three: Constitutional Cascades in the Federal Republic
Chapter Four: The American Constitution: First and Second Foundings
Chapter Five: State Action and Constitutional Containment
Chapter Six: Canada's Constitution and Courts
Chapter Seven: Horizontal Effect and Caboose Constitutionalism
Chapter Eight: Constitutional Rights, Private Law, and Judicial Power
Bibliography
Index