Litigating Rights: Perspectives from Domestic and International Law

Description

How are rights and freedoms best protected? The American model of constitutional protection and judicial review has been adopted in a number of countries, most recently in the United Kingdom. Increasingly, rights are the province of the judiciary. But how much judicial review do we need? How do we resolve conflicts between liberty, equality, and democracy? What are group rights, and how strong is their claim to protection? What guidance can the decisions of the UN Human Rights Committee provide? These are some of the questions discussed in this collection of essays, which explores a range of contemporary issues in jurisdictions including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

Grant Huscroft is a Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario. Paul Rishworth teaches at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

This book covers a number of issues extremely important to the litigation of rights in national systems and would be of benefit to anyone seeking to gain further insight to the myriad problems faced in providing more effective protection at this level. -- Merris Amos * Public Law * [A] rich and often fascinating volumethe four essays making up the section on group rights are the single best available introduction to this higly contested area. -- M.A. Sanderson * Modern Law Review *