Fundamental Rights and Latvian Constitution (1918–1934)

The Bill of Rights as a Constitution

Reasoning with fundamental rights

People often withdraw previously drawn conclusions in light of new information. This defeasible reasoning is also important for law, where judges often have to change their verdicts in light of new evidence. Here we investigate defeasibility in the context of conflicting fundamental rights. When, for instance, law to property conflicts with law to information, can one of these rights be “defeat...

Human Rights and the Second Century of the Australian Constitution

In many countries with a written constitution, constitutional development in the second half of the 20th century was dominated by concepts of human rights. For example, Canada and South Africa gained Bills of Rights* 1 while the United States saw an existing Bill of Rights expanded through judicial interpretation. In other nations, international norms and the proliferation of treaties and conve...

Constitutional Treaty Between Problem - Solving Treaty and Rights - Based Constitution

Fundamental rights at work : Overview and prospects

Editorial V The ILO Declaration and the supervisory mechanisms Core labour standards: A level playing field for all countries, Relevance of fundamental principles and rights and the dynamics of international labour standards, by Jean-Claude Javillier 4 Fundamental rights at work: A greater role for trade unions, Trade union rights at the dawn of the millennium: An overview, by Janek Kuczkiewicz...