Niels Petersen

Proportionality and Judicial Activism (eBook, PDF)

Fundamental Rights Adjudication in Canada, Germany and South Africa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The principle of proportionality is currently one of the most discussed topics in the field of comparative constitutional law. Many critics claim that courts use the proportionality test as an instrument of judicial self-empowerment. Proportionality and Judicial Activism tests this hypothesis empirically; it systematically and comparatively analyses the fundamental rights jurisprudence of the Canadian Supreme Court, the German Federal Constitutional Court and the South African Constitutional Court. The book shows that the proportionality test does give judges a considerable amount of discretion. However, this analytical openness does not necessarily lead to judicial activism. Instead, judges are faced with significant institutional constraints, as a result of which all three examined courts refrain from using proportionality for purposes of judicial activism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316836071
• Artikelnr.: 47903337

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.