Law, Justice, and the Individual - Couverture souple

Hirsch Ballin, Ernst

 
9789004223387: Law, Justice, and the Individual
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 900422338X ISBN 13 : 9789004223387
Editeur : Brill Nijhoff, 2011

Synopsis

One needs to learn from the experience of the individual, from specific real-life situations, where and how the law can promote justice. This is a desideratum that goes beyond the mere question of whether the application of a rule is compatible with fundamental rights and human rights treaties. Law that acknowledges human dignity, the first desideratum that follows from the acknowledgement of that human dignity as the most basic fundamental right, operates in a dynamic of detachment to ensure equality and proximity to the individual to reflect the uniqueness of the lives we live. To illustrate the author takes a number of examples from those fields of law that impinge most closely on the lives of individuals - criminal law, family law, and immigration law. It is there that the law touches on the intimacy of human lives. Perhaps paradoxically, the importance of this is heightened by the formation of the cross-border, European, and global networks of relationships that increasingly shape our lives. The interconnectedness of our lives and how that transcends the boundaries of culture, language, and state determines the realities of the law in the twenty-first century and requires us to consider carefully the interconnection of the general with the personal.

Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Amsterdam *1950) holds the chair of Dutch and European Constitutional Law at Tilburg University, where he was first appointed in 1981. He is also Professor of Human Rights at the University of Amsterdam. From 1989-1994 and 2006-2010, he was Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and held in the years in between several public offices in Parliament and the Council of State. In 2005, he was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His numerous publications deal with questions of constitutional and administrative law, legal philosophy and human rights.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Amsterdam *1950) holds the chair of Dutch and European Constitutional Law at Tilburg University, where he was first appointed in 1981. He is also Professor of Human Rights at the University of Amsterdam. From 1989-1994 and 2006-2010, he was Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and held in the years in between several public offices in Parliament and the Council of State. In 2005, he was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His numerous publications deal with questions of constitutional and administrative law, legal philosophy and human rights.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

One needs to learn from the experience of the individual, from specific real-life situations, where and how the law can promote justice. This is a desideratum that goes beyond the mere question of whether the application of a rule is compatible with fundamental rights and human rights treaties. Law that acknowledges human dignity, the first desideratum that follows from the acknowledgement of that human dignity as the most basic fundamental right, operates in a dynamic of detachment to ensure equality and proximity to the individual to reflect the uniqueness of the lives we live. To illustrate the author takes a number of examples from those fields of law that impinge most closely on the lives of individuals - criminal law, family law, and immigration law. It is there that the law touches on the intimacy of human lives. Perhaps paradoxically, the importance of this is heightened by the formation of the cross-border, European, and global networks of relationships that increasingly shape our lives. The interconnectedness of our lives and how that transcends the boundaries of culture, language, and state determines the realities of the law in the twenty-first century and requires us to consider carefully the interconnection of the general with the personal.

Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Amsterdam *1950) holds the chair of Dutch and European Constitutional Law at Tilburg University, where he was first appointed in 1981. He is also Professor of Human Rights at the University of Amsterdam. From 1989-1994 and 2006-2010, he was Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and held in the years in between several public offices in Parliament and the Council of State. In 2005, he was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His numerous publications deal with questions of constitutional and administrative law, legal philosophy and human rights.

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

One needs to learn from the experience of the individual, from specific real-life situations, where and how the law can promote justice. This is a desideratum that goes beyond the mere question of whether the application of a rule is compatible with fundamental rights and human rights treaties. Law that acknowledges human dignity, the first desideratum that follows from the acknowledgement of that human dignity as the most basic fundamental right, operates in a dynamic of detachment to ensure equality and proximity to the individual to reflect the uniqueness of the lives we live. To illustrate the author takes a number of examples from those fields of law that impinge most closely on the lives of individuals - criminal law, family law, and immigration law. It is there that the law touches on the intimacy of human lives. Perhaps paradoxically, the importance of this is heightened by the formation of the cross-border, European, and global networks of relationships that increasingly shape our lives. The interconnectedness of our lives and how that transcends the boundaries of culture, language, and state determines the realities of the law in the twenty-first century and requires us to consider carefully the interconnection of the general with the personal.

Ernst Hirsch Ballin (Amsterdam *1950) holds the chair of Dutch and European Constitutional Law at Tilburg University, where he was first appointed in 1981. He is also Professor of Human Rights at the University of Amsterdam. From 1989-1994 and 2006-2010, he was Minister of Justice of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and held in the years in between several public offices in Parliament and the Council of State. In 2005, he was elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. His numerous publications deal with questions of constitutional and administrative law, legal philosophy and human rights.

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Éditeur
Brill Nijhoff
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
900422338X
ISBN 13 
9789004223387
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
20
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