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Bills of Rights (The International Library of Essays on Rights) - Hardcover

Book 21 of 23: The International Library of Essays on Rights
 
9780754623465: Bills of Rights (The International Library of Essays on Rights)

Synopsis

This collection examines the justifications for using bills of rights to protect fundamental human rights and the mechanisms for enforcing provisions in those documents. Articles deal with different forms of judicial enforcement and with legislative enforcement, of rights protected by such documents. The collection includes a road-map for evaluating the effectiveness of these alternative enforcement mechanisms.

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About the Author

Mark Tushnet is William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School, USA. He is the co-author of four casebooks, including the casebook on constitutional law most widely used in the United States, has written fourteen books, including a two-volume work on the life of Justice Thurgood Marshall, and has edited eight others. He was President of the Association of American Law Schools in 2003. In 2002 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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