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Shaping rights in the ECHR: the role of the European Court of Human Rights in determining the scope of human rights Ghent University
In fundamental rights adjudication, a court first has to determine whether the interest at stake falls within the scope of the fundamental right invoked. Whether or not an individual interest falls within the scope or ambit of one of the fundamental rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights determines whether or not the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) can decide on the merits of a case. This volume brings a variety of ...
The role of national human rights institutions in enforcing social and economic rights : a case-study of the Human Rights Commission of Ethiopia Ghent University
Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene University of Antwerp
Animal rights law is in need of an update. Many of its central theories were developed over 20 years ago, meaning that they fail to take account of issues that, in today’s society, are inextricably linked to the question of animal rights. Conspicuously absent in this regard is the relevance of the current climate change emergency. Saskia Stucki’s recent book ‘One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene’ aims to put animal law in its ...