Michael J Perry

Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explicates the morality of human rights and elaborates three internationally recognized human rights that are entrenched in US constitutional law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 147mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9781107666085
• ISBN-10: 1107666082
• Artikelnr.: 38612052

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Perry holds a Robert W. Woodruff Chair at Emory University, where he teaches in the law school. Previously, Perry held the Howard J. Trienens Chair in Law at Northwestern University, where he taught for fifteen years, and the University Distinguished Chair in Law at Wake Forest University. Perry has written on American constitutional law and theory; law, morality and religion; and human rights theory in more than sixty articles and eleven books, including The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy, The Idea of Human Rights, We the People: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Supreme Court, Under God? Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy, Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts, and Constitutional Rights, Moral Controversy, and the Supreme Court.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Morality of Human Rights: 1. The internationalization of human rights
2. What is a 'human right'?
3. The normative ground of human rights
Part II. The Constitutional Morality of the United States: 4. Capital punishment
5. The question of judicial deference
6. The right to moral equality
7. The right to religious and moral freedom
8. Same-sex marriage
9. Abortion.