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Promoting Human Rights through Bills of Rights
Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Philip Alston

Price: £79.00 (Hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-825822-3
Publication date: 27 January 2000
Clarendon Press
584 pages, 234x156 mm

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'a thoughtful analysis of a very important issue by a wide range of specialists united by their interest and concern for human rights.' - Choice February 2001

Description

This book is written by a team of leading contributors in the field
Professor Philip Alston is the author/editor of several influential books on UN and Human Rights
This subject is of immense practical and scholarly interest

In recent years the international community has continued to adopt a flow of both binding and non-binding human rights instruments. But despite the significant domestic impact of these developments, most of the literature on human rights has focused on international procedures and institutions, to the neglect of domestic legal arrangements.

In this timely volume Professor Alston and a team of distinguished contributors examine the consequences of international human rights treaty obligations at national level. The problems addressed include the transformation of international norms into national law; how to prepare appropriate domestic arrangements for giving effect to international norms (with particular emphasis on the role of the bill of rights); an assessment of the impact of international obligations on domestic legal regimes.

This carefully edited collection will be of interest to all practitioners, scholars, and students of the law and theory of international human rights.

Readership: Scholars and postgraduate students of international law, international relations, and human rights law. Human rights activists and political scientists. Diplomats, lawyers, and government representatives attached to human rights organizations.

Contents

Notes on Contributors

1. Bills of Rights in Comparative Perspective , Philip Alston

I. National Level Protection of Human Rights without a Bill of Rights

2. How Far Can the Common Law Go Towards Protecting Human Rights , John Doyle & Belinda Wells

II. The Role of International Norms in the Absence of a Bill of Rights

3. The European Convention on Human Rights in the British Courts: Problems Associated with the Incorporation of International Human Rights , Andrew Clapham

4. Parliamentary Scrutiny of Human Rights: A Duty Neglected? , David Kinley

III. Comparative Experiences with Bills of Rights

5. The Kenyan Bill of Rights , Yash Ghai

6. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A Feminist Perspective , Mary Eberts

7. The New Zealand Bill of Rights Experience , Philip A. Joseph

8. And Some Have Bills of Rights Thrust Upon Them: Hong Kong's Bill of Rights , Andrew Byrnes

9. A Post-Calvinist Catechism or a Post-Communist Manifesto? Intersecting Narratives in the South African Bill of Rights Debate , Martin Chanock

10. Basic Laws as a Surrogate Bill of Rights: The Case of Israel , David Kretzmer

IV. The Judiciary and Bills of Rights

11. The Impact of a Bill of Rights on the Role of the Judiciary: A Canadian Perspective , Robert Sharpe

12. The Impact of a Bill of Rights on the Role of the Judiciary: An Australian Perspective , Sir Gerard Brennan

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Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Philip Alston, Professor of International Law, European University Institute, Florence

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Human rights
Constitution: government & the state
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Promoting Human Rights through Bills of RightsComparative Perspectives

Promoting Human Rights through Bills of Rights
Comparative Perspectives