Proportionality and the Rule of Law : Rights, Justification, Reasoning /
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Imprint: | New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 421 pages) |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12015077 |
Other authors / contributors: | Huscroft, Grant, editor. Miller, Bradley W. (Bradley Wayne), 1968- editor. Webber, Grégoire C. N. (Grégoire Charles N.), editor. |
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ISBN: | 9781139958202 1139958208 9781107565272 1107565278 9781139960311 1139960318 1139950746 9781139950749 9781139959254 1139959255 9781107064072 1107064074 9781107647954 1107647959 |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. |
Summary: | "To speak of human rights is to speak of proportionality. It is no exaggeration to claim that proportionality has overtaken rights as the orienting idea in contemporary human rights law and scholarship. Proportionality has been received into the constitutional doctrine of courts in continental Europe, the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, Israel, and South Africa, as well as the jurisprudence of treaty-based legal systems like the European Court of Human Rights, giving rise to claims of a global model, a received approach, or, simply, the best-practice standard of rights adjudication. Even in the United States, which is widely understood to have formally rejected proportionality, some argue that the various levels of scrutiny adopted by the US Supreme Court are analogous to the standard questions posed by proportionality. As proportionality scholars are well aware, some of the early literature on balancing and rights is American, with special reference to the First Amendment. Notwithstanding proportionality's popularity, there is no consensus on its methodology. Much less does the use of a proportionality doctrine guarantee consensus on substantive rights questions. What the principle of proportionality promises is a common analytical framework, a framework the significance of which is not in its ubiquity (a mere fact), but because its structure influences (some would say controls) how courts reason to conclusions in many of the great moral and political questions confronting political communities. As a framework, proportionality analysis is superficially straightforward, setting out four questions in evaluating whether the limitation of a right is justifiable. A serviceable - but by no means canonical"-- |
Other form: | Print version: Proportionality and the rule of law 9781107064072 |
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