Description
This volume is a convergence of opinions by human rights experts on rulings regarding important issues by various national, regional, and international courts and tribunals. Each essay uses material from a variety of jurisdictions and compares the outcomes of, and reasoning by, constitutional or supreme courts and international human rights courts.
Table of Contents
Contents Include:
"ls the Death Penalty an Inhuman Punishment?," Manfred Nowak
"The Death Row Phenomenon: A Comparative Analysis," Markus G. Schmidt
"The Right to Life/The Right to Die: The Rights, Their Interrelationship and the Jurisprudential Problems," Theodore S. Orlin
"Holocaust Denial and Freedom of Expression," Markus G. Schmidt and Raphaele L. Vojtovic
"The Right to Enjoy a Distinct Culture: Indigenous and Competing Uses of Land," Martin Scheinin
"The Right to Privacy: Some Implications for Confidentiality in the Context of HIV/ AIDS," Sofia Gruskin and Aart Hendriks
"The Right Not to be Discriminated Against: The Case of Social Security," Catarina Krause and Martin Scheinin
About the Author
Theodore S. Orlin is a professor of public law at Utica College and is a human rights attorney.
Allan Rosas is principal legal advisor at the Legal Service of the European Commission in Belgium.
Martin Scheinin is director of the Institute for Human Rights at Abo University in Finland and is on the Human Rights Committee for the United Nations.
Related Interest
May 2000