Niels Petersen

Proportionality and Judicial Activism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses empirical analysis to show that courts refrain from using the proportionality test as a means of judicial activism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9781316630822
• ISBN-10: 131663082X
• Artikelnr.: 51383066

Autorenporträt

Niels Petersen is Professor of Public Law, International Law and EU Law at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany. He is the author of a number of articles published in leading comparative constitutional law journals.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Judicial review and the correction of political market failures
2. The normative debate on balancing
3. Balancing and judicial legitimacy
4. Proportionality as a doctrinal construction
5. The avoidance of balancing
6. Rationalising balancing
Conclusion: proportionality and the review of legislative rationality.