Human rights in private law
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Human rights in private law
Hart, 2001
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Traditionally,the theory of human rights limited its application to the public domain, namely the relationships between individuals and public authorities. The great expansion of human rights legislation and concepts in modern national and international law has given rise to a major issue relating to their potential impact on private relationships. This book examines this important topic, which may revolutionize private law. It presents new approaches which strive to broaden the application of human rights to the private field on the ground that power can be abused and human rights can be infringed even when all parties are private. The subject is examined from theoretical and comparative perspectives by leading scholars representing a diversity of legal systems - the United States, Canada, England, South Africa, Germany and Israel. Among the contributors are Professor Todd Rakoff (Harvard), Professor Roger Brownsword (Sheffield), Professor Hugh Beale (Warwick) and Professor Ewan McKendrick (Oxford), Professor Ernest Weinrib and Professor Lorraine Weinrib (Toronto), Professor Christian Starck (Gottingen), Professor Andreas Heldrich (Munich) and others.
Table of Contents
- Introduction, Daniel Friedmann and Daphne Barak-Erez. Part 1 Constitutional value and private law - the theoretical framework: constitutional human rights and private law, Aharon Barak
- constitutional values and private law in Canada, Lorraine E. Weinrib and Ernest J. Weinrib
- determining the stakes - binding and non-binding bills of rights, Anton Fagan
- human rights and private law in German constitutional development and in the jurisdiction of the federal constitutional court, Christian Starck
- importing constitutional values through blanket clauses, Andreas Heldrich and Gebhard M. Rehm. Part 2 The impact of the European convention on human rights: the impact of the human rights act 1998 on English tort and contract law, High Beale and Nicola Pittam
- the European convention of human rights and fundamental freedoms and German private law, Reinhard Ellger. Part 3 Contract and property law: freedom of contract, human rights and human dignity, Roger Brownsword
- equality of opportunity and private law, Peter Benson
- property rights, public policy and the limits of the legal power to discriminate, Amnon Reichman. Part 4 Labour law: enforcement of employment contracts and the anti-slavery norm, Todd D. Rakoff
- human rights and the employment relationship - a look through the prism of juridification, Guy Mundlak. Part 5 The law of torts: negligence and human rights -reconsidering "Osman", Ewan McKendrick
- horizontal equality and the law of torts, Ofer Grosskopf
- privacy in the digital age - vanishing in cyberspace?, Gebhard M. Rehm.
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