Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights

The Judge's Dilemma

Stijn Smet (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

244 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-07566-8 (ISBN)

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Under the influence of the global spread of human rights, legal disputes are increasingly framed in human rights terms. Parties to a legal dispute can often invoke human rights norms in support of their competing claims. Yet, when confronted with cases in which human rights conflict, judges face a dilemma. They have to make difficult choices between superior norms that deserve equal respect. In this high-level book, the author sets out how judges the world over could resolve conflicts between human rights. He presents an innovative legal theoretical account of such conflicts, questioning the relevance of the influential proportionality test to their resolution. Instead, the author develops a novel resolution framework, specifically designed to tackle human rights conflicts. The book combines concerted normative theory with profound practical analysis, firmly rooting its theoretical arguments in human rights practice. Although the analysis draws primarily on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the book’s core arguments are applicable to judicial practice in general. As such, the book should be of great interest to academics, postgraduate students and legal practitioners in Europe and beyond. The book is particularly suited for use in advanced courses on legal theory, human rights law and jurisprudence.

Stijn Smet is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Law School of Ghent University. His research interests are human rights, legal theory and political theory. He has published on human rights conflicts in Human Rights Law Review, American University International Law Review and Religion & Human Rights.

Introduction Part 1: Identifying Conflicts between Human Rights 1. Conflicts between Human Rights: It Does Really Make a Difference 2. Defining Conflicts between Human Rights 3. Defusing and Minimizing Conflicts between Human Rights Part II Difficulties in Balancing Human Rights 4. Theoretical Challenges to Balancing Human Rights 5. Practical Obstacles to Balancing Human Rights Part III Making Balancing Work for Conflicts between Human Rights 6. A Structured Balancing Test for Human Rights Conflicts 7. Alternative (Non-)Balancing Approaches 8.Human Rights Dilemmas and the Limits of the Structured Balancing Test

Erscheinungsdatum	13.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	450 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsverfahrensrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-10	0-367-07566-0 / 0367075660
ISBN-13	978-0-367-07566-8 / 9780367075668
Zustand	Neuware