Fredman brings her experience and knowledge forth to give a concise background on the last 70 years of the study and practice of this area of law ... At the conclusion of the treatise, readers will have a better understanding of the difficulties faced in defining what these rights are and how to judiciously find meaning and application. Fredman allows the reader to reach their own conclusions on these rights while providing a narrative of past judicial interpretation concerning these global issues.

Autorentext
Sandra Fredman is Rhodes Professor of the Laws of the British Commonwealth and the USA at Oxford University. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005 and became a QC (honoris causa) in 2012. She is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town and a fellow of Pembroke College Oxford. She has acted as an expert adviser on equality law and labour legislation in the EU, Northern Ireland, the UK, India, South Africa, Canada, and the UN; and is a barrister practising at Old Square Chambers. She founded the Oxford Human Rights Hub in 2012, of which she is the Director.

Klappentext

An essential overview of the comparative study of human rights law. This book will introduce students, academics, and legal practitioners to the aims and methods of approaching human rights from a comparative perspective.

Inhalt

• Part I

• 1: Foreign Fads or Fashions: The Role of Comparativism in Human Rights Law

• 2: What is a Human Right? Dealing with Disagreement

• 3: Challenging the Divide: Socio-economic Rights as Human Rights

• 4: Allies or Subversives: Adjudication and Democracy

• 5: Interpreting Human Rights Law

• Part II

• 6: Capital Punishment

• 7: Abortion

• 8: The Right to Health

• 9: The Right to Housing

• 10: Freedom of Speech

• 11: The Right to Education

• 12: Freedom of Religion

• 13: Conclusion