Legislated Rights
Autor
Bradley W. Miller
, Maris Kopcke (Universitat De Barcelona)
, Gregoire Webber (Queen's University, Ontario)
, Richard Ekins (St John's College, Oxford)
, Francisco J. Urbina (Pontificia Universidad Catolica De Chile)
, Paul Yowell (Oriel College, Oxford)
Explores how legislatures are able to secure human rights through legislation specifying rights and duties, and the institutional capacities that promote this aim. It opposes theories that place the main or sole responsibility for protecting human rights with courts, showing that legislatures can provide modes of protection that courts cannot provide.