Minority Groups and Judicial Discourse in International Law

A Comparative Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17672-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 102, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: International Studies in Human Rights

Set against previous stages of minority protection under international law, this book discusses the role of courts and court-like bodies – particularly in the Americas, Africa and Europe – in articulating and accommodating the interests and needs of ethno-cultural minority groups as part of the human rights discourse. Conceptually, it exposes different moments of intervention by such bodies involving the recognition of group existence or identity, the adjustment of human rights norms to accommodate the group’s perspectives, the establishment of processes designed to address the complexities resulting from competing claims, and the expansion of procedural avenues within litigation. The result is a fresh comparative – practical and theoretical – perspective on international jurisprudence as an emerging distinctive component in the complex history of the field.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pentassuglia, Gaetano

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Table of Cases; Chapter 1 Introduction: 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; PART I Chapter 2 Recognition: Spaces of group identity; Domestic courts and international law; Chapter 3 Elaboration: Indirect protection: spaces of freedom or the ‘hands off approach’; Direct protection: diffusing general human rights; Chapter 4 Mediation: Reconciling majority and minority interests; Reconciling interests within the group; Chapter 5 Access to justice: Judicial protection; Locus standi and injured party; Continuing effects of rights violation; Evidence; PART II Chapter 6 Ethno-cultural diversity and international judicial discourse: Dimensions of judicial discourse: preliminary observations; Courts in plural societies; International jurisprudence re-assessed; Expanding on the procedural model; Between substance and procedure; Interpretation as cross-fertilisation; On judicial persuasiveness; Between universalism and justice; Chapter 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gaetano Pentassuglia, J.D., Ph.D., is currently Director of the International and European Law Unit and Senior Lecturer in Law at Liverpool Law School, and Visiting Professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He is also a Visiting Professor at Palermo University, and was formerly Adjunct Professor at Munich University. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at several institutions and is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. He is the author of numerous leading articles and books in the field, including Minorities in International Law (2002), also translated into French and Serbian.