Tom Campbell / Jeffrey Goldsworthy / Adrienne Stone (eds.)

Protecting Human Rights

Instruments and Institutions
Herausgeber: Campbell, Tom; Stone, Adrienne; Goldsworthy, Jeffrey

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume addresses two important issues surrounding human rights in both law and politics. First, it considers the content and form of human rights. What is and what is not to be counted as a human right, and what does it mean to identify a right as a human right? Secondly it considers the implementation of human rights. What are the most effective and legitimate means of promoting human rights? Both of these issues raise profound moral questions within legal and political philosophy. The contributions within this volume address the conceptual and moral issues deriving from the expansion of rights discourse and explore the variety of institutional mechanisms that may be adopted to protect and further human rights. At the same time, they illustrate the complex relationship between defining human rights and adopting particular modes of institutional implementation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 655g
• ISBN-13: 9780199264063
• ISBN-10: 0199264066
• Artikelnr.: 21462959

Autorenporträt

Tom Campbell is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University. Jeffrey Goldsworthy is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, Monash University. Adrienne Stone is a Fellow in the Law Program at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Conceptual Boundaries and Functions of Human Rights
* 1: Tom Campbell: Human Rights: The Shifting Boundaries
* 2: Larry Alexander: Freedom of Expression as a Human Right
* 3: Mark A. Nolan and Penelope J. Oakes: Human Rights Concepts in
Australian Political Debate
* 4: Robin West: Human Rights, Rule of Law, and American
Constitutionalism
* Part II: Democratic Foundations
* 5: Richard S. Kay: Rights, Rules, and Democracy
* 6: Julie Debeljak: Rights and Democracy: A Reconciliation of the
Institutional Debate
* 7: David Tucker: Representation-Reinforcing Review: Comparing
Experiences in the United States and Australia
* 8: James Allan: A Defence of the Status Quo
* 9: David Dyzenhaus: Aspiring to the Rule of Law
* Part III: Institutional Designs
* 10: Mark Tushnet: Non-judicial Review
* 11: Janet L. Hiebert: Parliament and Rights
* 12: George Williams: Constructing a Community-Based Bill of Rights
Model
* 13: Jeffrey Goldsworthy: Judicial Review, Legislative Override, and
Democracy
* 14: Dianne Otto: Addressing Homelessness: Does Australia's Indirect
Implementation of Human Rights Comply with its International
Obligations?
* 15: Steven Curry: Indigenous Rights
* 16: K. D. Ewing: The Case for Social Rights