Philip Alston

Promoting Human Rights Through Bills of Rights

Comparative Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

In recent years the international community has continued to adopt a flow of both binding and non-binding human rights instruments. But despite the significant domestic impact of these developments, most of the literature on human rights has focused on international procedures and institutions, to the neglect of domestic legal arrangements. In this timely volume Professor Alston and a team of distinguished contributors examine the consequences of international human rights treaty obligations at national level. The problems addressed include the transformation of international norms into national law; how to prepare appropriate domestic arrangements for giving effect to international norms (with particular emphasis on the role of the bill of rights); an assessment of the impact of international obligations on domestic legal regimes. This carefully edited collection will be of interest to all practitioners, scholars, and students of the law and theory of international human rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 584
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 162mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1016g
• ISBN-13: 9780198258223
• ISBN-10: 0198258224
• Artikelnr.: 22276862

Inhaltsangabe

* Notes on Contributors
* 1: Philip Alston: Bills of Rights in Comparative Perspective
* I. National Level Protection of Human Rights without a Bill of Rights
* 2: John Doyle and Belinda Wells: How Far Can the Common Law Go
Towards Protecting Human Rights
* II. The Role of International Norms in the Absence of a Bill of
Rights
* 3: Andrew Clapham: The European Convention on Human Rights in the
British Courts: Problems Associated with the Incorporation of
International Human Rights
* 4: David Kinley: Parliamentary Scrutiny of Human Rights: A Duty
Neglected?
* III. Comparative Experiences with Bills of Rights
* 5: Yash Ghai: The Kenyan Bill of Rights
* 6: Mary Eberts: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A
Feminist Perspective
* 7: Philip A. Joseph: The New Zealand Bill of Rights Experience
* 8: Andrew Byrnes: And Some Have Bills of Rights Thrust Upon Them:
Hong Kong's Bill of Rights
* 9: Martin Chanock: A Post-Calvinist Catechism or a Post-Communist
Manifesto? Intersecting Narratives in the South African Bill of
Rights Debate
* 10: David Kretzmer: Basic Laws as a Surrogate Bill of Rights: The
Case of Israel
* IV. The Judiciary and Bills of Rights
* 11: Robert Sharpe: The Impact of a Bill of Rights on the Role of the
Judiciary: A Canadian Perspective
* 12: Sir Gerard Brennan: The Impact of a Bill of Rights on the Role of
the Judiciary: An Australian Perspective
* Select Bibliography
* Index