Research Catalog

Title

Minority groups and judicial discourse in international law : a comparative perspective / by Gaetano Pentassuglia.

Author

Pentassuglia, Gaetano.

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.

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Details

Description

xxv, 276 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

International studies in human rights ; v. 102

Uniform Title

International studies in human rights ; v. 102.

Subjects

• International courts
• Discrimination > Law and legislation
• Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 -- Spaces of group identity -- Domestic courts and international law -- Indirect protection : spaces of freedom or the 'hands off approach' -- Direct protection : diffusing general human rights -- Private and family life -- Property -- Education, language, participation -- Non-discrimination -- Reconciling majority and minority interests -- Involvement in the decision-making process -- (Positive) equality as a justificatory test -- Reconciling interests within the group -- Women and the group -- Dissenters and group representation -- Right to judicial protection -- Locus standi and injured party -- Continuing effects of rights violation -- Evidence -- Dimensions of judicial discourse : preliminary observations -- Courts in plural societies -- The theoretical debate -- The case of socio-economic rights -- International jurisprudence re-assessed -- Expanding on the procedural model -- Between substance and procedure -- Interpretation as cross-fertilisation -- On judicial persuasiveness -- Between universalism and justice.

ISBN

• 9789004176720 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004176721 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2009015086

OCLC

• ocn318243597
• SCSB-1527538

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library