Minority groups and judicial discourse in international law: a comparative perspective/

Main Author: Pentassuglia, Gaetano
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009
Series:International studies in human rights 102
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Minority protection : a story in movements
  • The UN debate
  • The emerging fourth movement
  • Saramaka as an illustration of judicial discourse
  • A note on terminology and structure
  • Spaces of group identity
  • Domestic courts and international law
  • Indirect protection : spaces of freedom or the 'hands off approach'. Direct protection : diffusing general human rights
  • Private and family life
  • Property
  • Education, language, participation
  • Non-discrimination
  • Reconciling majority and minority interests
  • Involvement in the decision-making process
  • (Positive) equality as a justifi catory test
  • Reconciling interests within the group
  • Women and the group
  • Dissenters and group representation
  • Right to judicial protection
  • Locus standi and injured party
  • Continuing effects of rights violation . Dimensions of judicial discourse : preliminary observations
  • Courts in plural societies
  • The theoretical debate
  • The case of socio-economic rights
  • International jurisprudence re-assessed
  • Expanding on the procedural model
  • Between substance and procedure
  • Interpretation as cross-fertilisation
  • On judicial persuasiveness
  • Between universalism and justice.