Fundamental Rights and the Nigerian Draft Constitution

The Bill of Rights as a Constitution

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...

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...

Commentary—The Impossibility of Finding Welfare Rights in the Constitution

Relationship between Ethics and Fundamental Rights of Individuals in the Iranian Penal System

Background: The main purpose of criminal law must be to secure the basic human rights or fundamental rights of individuals. But the matter is the relationship between morality and human rights. For the purpose of the science of morality is to bring humanity to the highest degree of humanity, and the purpose of law is to achieve relative justice and to restore order in society. Equity is also a ...