Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
1316838625
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9781316838624
Content:
"The principle of proportionality is currently one of the most discussed topics in the field of comparative constitutional law. Many critics claim that courts use the proportionality test as an instrument of judicial self-empowerment. Proportionality and Judicial Activism tests this hypothesis empirically; it systematically and comparatively analyses the fundamental rights jurisprudence of the Canadian Supreme Court, the German Federal Constitutional Court and the South African Constitutional Court. The book shows that the proportionality test does give judges a considerable amount of discretion. However, this analytical openness does not necessarily lead to judicial activism. Instead, judges are faced with significant institutional constraints, as a result of which all three examined courts refrain from using proportionality for purposes of judicial activism"--
Content:
Introduction; 1. Judicial review and the correction of political market failures; 2. The normative debate on balancing; 3. Balancing and judicial legitimacy; 4. Proportionality as a doctrinal construction; 5. The avoidance of balancing; 6. Rationalising balancing; Conclusion: proportionality and the review of legislative rationality
Note:
Based on author's thesis (Habilitation - Universität, Bonn, 2012) issued under title: Verhältnismässigkeit als Rationalitätskontrolle : eine rechtsempirische Studie verfassungsrechtlicher Rechtsprechung zu den Freiheitsgrundrechten
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1107177987
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1316838625
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107177987
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316838624
Additional Edition:
Print version Petersen, Niels Proportionality and judicial activism Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017
Additional Edition:
Revision of Petersen, Niels Verhältnismässigkeit als Rationalitätskontrolle Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2015 ISBN 9783161535109
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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Author information:
Petersen, Niels 1979-
