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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Litigating Rights: Perspectives from Domestic and International Law by Edited by Grant Huscroft Edited by Paul Rishworth
How are rights and freedoms best protected? The American model of constitutional protection and judicial review has been adopted in a number of countriesmost 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. Contributors include Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada Justice Eddie Durie of the High Court of New Zealand; James Allan Andrew Butler Hilary Charlesworth Scott Davidson Elizabeth Evatt Murray Hunt Andrew Sharpe and Jeremy Waldron.show more