Proportionality Balancing and Constitutional Governance: A Comparative and Global Approach

by Jud Mathews and Alec Stone Sweet

Book Overview

In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Jud Mathews focus on the law and politics of rights protection in democracies, and in human rights regimes in Europe, the Americas, and Africa. After introducing the basic features of modern constitutions, with their emphasis on rights and judicial review, the authors present a theory of proportionality that explains why constitutional judges embraced it. Proportionality analysis is a highly intrusive mode of judicial...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019884140X
• ISBN13: 9780198841401
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"