Weak Courts, Strong Rights (eBook)

Judicial Review and Social Welfare Rights in Comparative Constitutional Law

Mark Tushnet (Autor)

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2009
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2815-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Unlike many other countries, the United States has few constitutional guarantees of social welfare rights such as income, housing, or healthcare. In part this is because many Americans believe that the courts cannot possibly enforce such guarantees. However, recent innovations in constitutional design in other countries suggest that such rights can be judicially enforced--not by increasing the power of the courts but by decreasing it. In Weak Courts, Strong Rights, Mark Tushnet uses a comparative legal perspective to show how creating weaker forms of judicial review may actually allow for stronger social welfare rights under American constitutional law. Under "e;strong-form"e; judicial review, as in the United States, judicial interpretations of the constitution are binding on other branches of government. In contrast, "e;weak-form"e; review allows the legislature and executive to reject constitutional rulings by the judiciary--as long as they do so publicly. Tushnet describes how weak-form review works in Great Britain and Canada and discusses the extent to which legislatures can be expected to enforce constitutional norms on their own. With that background, he turns to social welfare rights, explaining the connection between the "e;state action"e; or "e;horizontal effect"e; doctrine and the enforcement of social welfare rights. Tushnet then draws together the analysis of weak-form review and that of social welfare rights, explaining how weak-form review could be used to enforce those rights. He demonstrates that there is a clear judicial path--not an insurmountable judicial hurdle--to better enforcement of constitutional social welfare rights.

Autor

Mark Tushnet is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His many books include The New Constitutional Order and Taking the Constitution Away from the Courts (both Princeton). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.7.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Sozialrecht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adjudication • Amendment • attempt • Bill of rights • Case study • Common Law • Consideration • constitutional amendment • Constitutionalism • Constitutionality • constitutional law • Constitutional theory • Contract • Criminal Law • Criticism • Declaration of incompatibility • defamation • defendant • Deliberation • disadvantage • Discretion • Due Process • Easement • Employment • Equal Protection Clause • European Convention on Human Rights • European Court of Human Rights • False statement • Flag desecration • freedom of speech • Fundamental Rights • Governance • Horizontal effect • Ideology • Impeachment • inference • injunction • Institution • International human rights law • Judicial Activism • Judicial interpretation • Judicial review in the United States • Judiciary • Jurisdiction • Jury • Lawmaking • Law of the United States • lawyer • Legal remedy • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • lochner era • Marbury v. Madison • margin of appreciation • Market Economy • mark tushnet • Ordinary law • parliamentary system • plaintiff • Police Officer • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Preamble • Precedent • Prerogative • private law • Property Law • Prosecutor • Provision (contracting) • public law • Public Policy • ratification • Reasonable Person • Recommendation (European Union) • Regulation • Remainder (law) • Requirement • rights • Rule of Law • Self-Governance • Separation of Powers • skepticism • Standing (law) • State court (United States) • State Government • State law (United States) • Statute • Statutory interpretation • Substantive rights • supermajority • supreme court of the united states • Tax • Tort • United States constitution • United States v. Eichman • Veto • welfare rights • Welfare State
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2815-5 / 1400828155
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2815-9 / 9781400828159