Law and rights
Subtitle: global perspectives on constitutionalism and governance
By: edited by Penelope E. Andrews & Susan Bazilli
Publisher: Vandeplas Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lake Mary, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781600420474
Subjects: Constitutional law; Human rights; Civil rights
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- Pius Langa -- Intorduction / -- Penelope E. Andrews, Susan Bazilli; title: Internationalism and transnational constitutionalism: comparative perspectives --; title: Constitutional change, transnational constitutionalism, and a connection between international and constitutional law  -- Dwight Newman; title: Exporting prophylactic rules  -- Michael Plaxton; title: Balancing competing individual constitutional rights: an impossible task?  -- Taunya Banks; title: Cutting and sewing: goals and means in the constitutionalist project in Africa  -- Martin Chanock; title: Constitutionalism, separation of powers and the judiciary --; title: Judicial review: can the goal of minority protection justify the constitutionalisation of economic rights?  -- Brian Flanagan; title: The independence of the judiciary in South Africa and Australia: comparative lessons  -- Denise Meyerson; title: The court as a forum of justification -- Gregoire C.N. Webber; title: Achieving sexual freedom through constitutional structures: the problem of judicial review  -- Ruthann Robson; title: Deconstructing deference: a comparative analysis of judicial approaches to health care in South Africa and Canada  -- Kirsty McLean; title: Constitutionalism, citizenship and identity --; title: Intimate violence and the right to gender equality  -- Valorie Vojdik; title: Islam and gender equality  -- Qudsia Mirza; title: Constitutional protection of citizenship in a comparative perspective  -- Janet Calvo; title: A global family? culture, sexuality and family regulation  -- Craig Lind; title: The UK: the incorporation of human rights and new labour - success or failure?  -- Wendy Pettifer; title: Constitutionalism and economic justice --; title: On constitutionalizing environmental rights  -- Rebecca Bratspies; title: Reading between the lines: judicial protection for socio-economic rights under the South African and United States constitutions -- Susan Herman; title: Implementing the social and economic promise of the constitution: the role of South African legal education  -- Peggy Maisel; title: The limitations of rights discourse --; title: International law and the shrinking space for domestic politics in developing countries  -- Patrick Kelly; title: War powers under the South African constitution  -- Stephen Ellmann; title: The UK response to terrorism: human rights and a wider perspective  -- Chris Gale; title: American torturers and their known vicious propensities -- Paul Brietzke-- List of contributors.