Proportionality And The Rule Of Law
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Author | : Grant Huscroft |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2014-04-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1139952870 |
To speak of human rights in the twenty-first century is to speak of proportionality. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, South Africa, and the United States, as well as the jurisprudence of treaty-based legal systems such as the European Convention on Human Rights. Proportionality provides a common analytical framework for resolving the great moral and political questions confronting political communities. But behind the singular appeal to proportionality lurks a range of different understandings. This volume brings together many of the world's leading constitutional theorists - proponents and critics of proportionality - to debate the merits of proportionality, the nature of rights, the practice of judicial review, and moral and legal reasoning. Their essays provide important new perspectives on this leading doctrine in human rights law.
Author | : David Duarte |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2018-07-09 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9783319896465 |
This book addresses the principle of proportionality, which is currently one of the most important instruments of judicial review, from both analytical and theory of law perspectives. As such, the analysis provided is far more comprehensive and can be applied to all areas of law, not just constitutional law. On the one hand, the volume offers a broad perspective on several aspects related to proportionality, such as its structure, the balancing methodology and the distinction between rules and principles. On the other, it provides an innovative, normativist and analytical approach to proportionality, helping readers understand its structure and behaviour.
Author | : Francisco J. Urbina |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107175062 |
This book offers a comprehensive critique of the principle of proportionality and balancing as applied to human and constitutional rights.
Author | : Tor-Inge Harbo |
Publisher | : Hotei Publishing |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2015-03-20 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 900428947X |
The proportionality principle has become ever more important in European law and elsewhere. The career of the principle has attracted considerable attention from legal practitioners, legal theorists and political scientists alike, but the debate so far has been quite fragmented. In this new book the author offers a broad and systematic analysis of the proportionality principle. Discussing and comparing proportionality analysis as applied by European courts in part one of the book, the author proceeds to contrast proportionality analysis with alternative assessment schemes. In the third part of the book the author reaches beyond doctrinal reconstructions as he deciphers the functions of proportionality jurisprudence. In view of the various facets of proportionality analysis the author departs from the asserted infringement of a legally protected position by some regulatory act, proceeds to discuss the legitimacy of this intervention and undertakes an analysis of its suitability, appropriateness and necessity. According to the author, the safe grounds of proportionality means-ends rationality do not suffice where the legitimacy of an infringement has to be assessed, where conflicting values have to be “balanced” or where courts engage in a proportionality analysis “stricto sensu”. In the concluding remarks, the author proposes how proportionality analysis may be structured in order to better secure the legitimacy of the analysis.
Author | : Afroditi Marketou |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2021-07-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108834485 |
A strong counter-argument to the universalising discourse on proportionality and global constitutionalism.
Author | : David M. Beatty |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780199269808 |
The Ultimate Rule of Law addresses the age-old tension between law and politics by examining whether the personal beliefs of judges come into play in adjudicating on issues of religious freedom, sex discrimination, and social and economic rights. Decisions by the Supreme Courts of India, Japan, Canada, the United States, Ireland, Israel, the Constitutional Courts of Germany, Hungary, South Africa, and the European Court of Human Rights on such controversial issues as government funding of religious schools, abortion, same sex marriages, women in the military, and rights to basic shelter and life saving medical treatment are evaluated and compared. Beatty develops a radical alternative to the conventional view that in deciding these cases judges engage in an essentially interpretative, and thus subjective act, relying ultimately on their personal beliefs and political opinions. His analysis shows that it is possible to apply an impartial and objective method of judicial review, based on the principle of proportionality, which acts as an ultimate rule of law and is fully compatible with the ideals of democracy and popular sovereignty. Controversially, Beatty concludes that although this method of judicial review originated in the United States, American judges generally appear to be far less inclined to this conception of constitutional adjudication than their counterparts in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Author | : Niels Petersen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-03-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107177987 |
This book uses empirical analysis to show that courts refrain from using the proportionality test as a means of judicial activism.
Author | : CHUNG Wai Man, Franco |
Publisher | : City University of HK Press |
Total Pages | : 696 |
Release | : 2020-06-30 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9629373785 |
Proportionality is a German, and thus continental European, concept in public law that is applied by both the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The principle specifies that measures adopted by executive authorities should not exceed the limits of what is appropriate and necessary in order to achieve legitimate objectives in the interest of the public. Using a functional comparative approach, this book evaluates the extent to which proportionality has been integrated into the English and Hong Kong judicial systems by comparing case law in these courts with that of the CJEU and the ECtHR. The text also reviews the development of proportionality and presents a topical understanding of why its adoption and application have encountered difficulties, particularly regarding socio-economic rights, in some jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Written by a scholar with experience from both within the Hong Kong judicial system and from international research, this book is the first all-encompassing reference for legal practitioners worldwide.
Author | : Christina Voigt |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1107513219 |
'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, biological diversity is rapidly declining and fish stocks in the oceans are dwindling. This book challenges the doctrinal construction of environmental law and presents an innovative legal approach to ecological sustainability: a rule of law for nature which guides and transcends ordinary written laws and extends fundamental principles of respect, integrity and legal security to the non-human world.
Author | : E. Thomas Sullivan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0195324935 |
From the ancient origins of Just War doctrine to contemporary theories of punishment, concepts of proportionality have long been an instrumental part of the rule of law and an essential check on government power. Two renowned legal scholars seek to advance such a theory.