Hanging in the Balance

The Function of Justification in Achieving Women's Equality
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5099-6787-2
Verlag: Hart Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 529 g

This book gives the first in-depth assessment of how justification functions when women are claiming their right to equality.

How can courts assess whether a proposed limit to women's equality is constitutionally justified? This question is rarely explicitly asked, with the assumption that well-established limitation frameworks, such as proportionality, are able to assess whether limits to women's rights are justified. However, delving into the theory and practice of justification reveals fracture points between the dominant approach to justification and women's rights to equality.

One of its distinctive characteristics is the question of whether any analytical entwining or unwinding of equality and justification enhances the protection of women's rights to equality in constitutional democracies. It proposes a novel asymmetric relationship between equality and justification that requires innovative methodological approaches that enrich the task of adjudicating limits to women's equality.

This is an intriguing, articulate and compelling examination of a question with real and applied significance to all those working on human rights and equality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Campbell, Meghan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Missing Puzzle Piece
Part I: The Equality-Stage

Chapter 2. Diluting Equality with Justification
Chapter 3. Substantive Equality as a Bulwark

Part II: The Justification Stage
Chapter 4. Calibrating the Role of the Court
Chapter 5. Hollowing Out Justification
Chapter 6. Enriching Justification with Substantive Equality

Über Autor(innen)

Campbell, Meghan
Meghan Campbell is a Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub.

Meghan Campbell is a Reader in International Human Rights Law at the University of Birmingham and Deputy-Director of the Oxford Human Rights Hub.