Reasoning rights : comparative judicial engagement

"This book is about judicial reasoning in human rights cases. The aim is explore the question: how is it that notionally universal norms are reasoned by courts in such significantly different ways?"--Page i

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bowles, Nigel (Author), Lazarus, Liora (Author), McCrudden, Christopher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Worcester Place, Oxford : Hart Publishing , c2016
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The pluralism of human rights adjudication
  • 2. Constructing the proportionality test: an emerging global conversation
  • 3. Necessity and proportionality: towards a balanced approach
  • 4. Proportionality without balancing: why judicial ad hoc balancing is unnecessary and potentially detrimental to the realisation of individual and collective self-determination
  • 5. Proportionality in United States constitutional law
  • 6. "To the serious detriment of the public": secret evidence and closed material procedures
  • 7. National security law and the creep of secrecy: a transatlantic tale
  • 8. Navigating the shoals of secrecy: a comparative analysis of the use of secret evidence and "cleared counsel" in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada
  • 9. The secret keepers: judges, security detentions, and secret evidence
  • 10. The intersection of religious autonomy and religious symbols: setting the stage
  • 11. Principles and compromises: religious freedom in a time of transition
  • 12. State interference in the internal affairs of religious institutions
  • 13. The protection of religious freedom in Australia: a comparative assessment of autonomy and symbols
  • 14. The emergence and enforcement of socio-economic rights
  • 15. The problematic of social rights: uniformity and diversity in the development of social rights review
  • 16. A South African perspective on the judicial development of socio-economic rights
  • 17. Judicial activism and the Indian Supreme Court: lessons for economic and social rights adjudication
  • 18. American exceptionalism over social rights