Douglas Hodgson

Individual Duty Within a Human Rights Discourse

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Produktbeschreibung

The main purpose of this book is to examine the principle of individual duty from a number of different perspectives. National legal systems have recognised and enforced for a long time in their constitutions and ordinary legislation various duties which citizens owe to their own families, the communities in which they reside and their country. Such duties include the duty to pay taxes, the duty to provide maintenance and a basic education for one's children, the duty to undertake military service for a specified period and the duty to obey the constitution and other laws.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9781138258334
• ISBN-10: 1138258334
• Artikelnr.: 48094297

Autorenporträt

Douglas Hodgson is Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
The historical development of the principle of duty and its contemporary philosophical sources
The taxonomy of duties
Religion, ethics and the principle of individual duty
Individual criminal responsibility under international law
The position of individual duty within the international and regional human rights system
Particular individual duties explicitly recognised under international and regional human rights law and by national law
Socialism and individual duty
Impoverished 'Rights Talk', the sociology of duty and the re-emergence of communitarianism
The enforcement of individual duties
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Tables.