Human Rights in Private Law

Dan Friedmann, Daphne Barak-Erez (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2003
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84113-254-9 (ISBN)

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This book examines the growth of human rights legislation and concepts in modern national and international law which may revolutionize private law.

Traditionally,the theory of human rights limited its application to the public domain, namely the relationships between individuals and public authorities. The great expansion of human rights legislation and concepts in modern national and international law has given rise to a major issue relating to their potential impact on private relationships. This book examines this important topic, which may revolutionize private law. It presents new approaches which strive to broaden the application of human rights to the private field on the ground that power can be abused and human rights can be infringed even when all parties are private. The subject is examined from theoretical and comparative perspectives by leading scholars representing a diversity of legal systems - the United States, Canada, England, South Africa, Germany and Israel. Among the contributors are Professor Todd Rakoff (Harvard), Professor Roger Brownsword (Sheffield), Professor Hugh Beale (Warwick) and Professor Ewan McKendrick (Oxford), Professor Ernest Weinrib and Professor Lorraine Weinrib (Toronto), Professor Christian Starck (Gottingen), Professor Andreas Heldrich (Munich) and others.

Daniel Friedmann is a member of Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities,and Danielle Rubinstein Professor of Comparative Private Law, Tel-Aviv University. Dr. Daphne Barak-Erez is Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University and the Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights.

1. Introduction
Daniel Friedmann and Daphne Barak-Erez

Part I: Constitutional Values and Private Law—The Theoretical Framework

2. Constitutional Human Rights and Private Law
Aharon Barak

3. Constitutional Values and Private Law in Canada
Lorraine E. Weinrib and Ernest J. Weinrib

4. Determining the Stakes: Binding and Non-binding Bills of Rights
Anton Fagan

5. Human Rights and Private Law in German Constitutional Development and in the Jurisdiction of the Federal Constitutional Court
Christian Starck

6. Importing Constitutional Values through Blanket Clauses
Andreas Heldrich and Gebhard M. Rehm

Part II: The Impact of the European Convention on Human Rights

7. The Impact of the Human Rights Act 1998 on English Tort and Contract Law
Hugh Beale and Nicola Pittam

8. The European Convention of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and German Private Law
Reinhard Ellger

Part III: Contract and Property Law

9. Freedom of Contract, Human Rights and Human Dignity
Roger Brownsword

10. Equality of Opportunity and Private Law
Peter Benson

11. Property Rights, Public Policy and the Limits of the Legal Power to Discriminate
Amnon Reichman

Part IV: Labour Law

12. Enforcement of Employment Contracts and the Anti-Slavery Norm
Todd D. Rakoff

13. Human Rights and the Employment Relationship: A Look Through the Prism of Juridification
Guy Mundlak

Part V: The Law of Torts

14. Negligence and Human Rights: Reconsidering Osman
Ewan McKendrick

15. Horizontal Equality and the Law of Torts
Ofer Grosskopf

16. Privacy in the Digital Age: Vanishing in Cyberspace?
Gebhard M. Rehm

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.8.2003
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
ISBN-10	1-84113-254-3 / 1841132543
ISBN-13	978-1-84113-254-9 / 9781841132549
Zustand	Neuware