Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation

Gregoire Webber (Queen's University, Ontario),Paul Yowell (Oriel College, Oxford),Richard Ekins (St John's College, Oxford),Maris Koepcke (Universitat de Barcelona),Bradley W. Miller

Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 March 2018
Pages
218
ISBN
9781108426572

Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation

Gregoire Webber (Queen's University, Ontario),Paul Yowell (Oriel College, Oxford),Richard Ekins (St John's College, Oxford),Maris Koepcke (Universitat de Barcelona),Bradley W. Miller

The important aspects of human wellbeing outlined in human rights instruments and constitutional bills of rights can only be adequately secured as and when they are rendered the object of specific rights and corresponding duties. It is often assumed that the main responsibility for specifying the content of such genuine rights lies with courts. Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation argues against this assumption, by showing how legislatures can and should be at the centre of the practice of human rights. This jointly authored book explores how and why legislatures, being strategically placed within a system of positive law, can help realise human rights through modes of protection that courts cannot provide by way of judicial review.

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