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Minority groups and judicial discourse in international law : a comparative perspective

Title
Minority groups and judicial discourse in international law : a comparative perspective / by Gaetano Pentassuglia.
Author
Pentassuglia, Gaetano.
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2009.

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Description
xxv, 276 p.; 25 cm.
Series Statement
International studies in human rights ; v. 102
Uniform Title
International studies in human rights ; v. 102.
Subject
  • Minorities > Legal status, laws, etc
  • Discrimination > Law and legislation
  • International courts
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Minority protection : a story in movements -- The UN debate -- The emerging fourth movement -- Saramaka as an illustration of judicial discourse -- A note on terminology and structure -- Spaces of group identity -- Domestic courts and international law -- Indirect protection : spaces of freedom or the 'hands off approach' -- Direct protection : diffusing general human rights -- Private and family life -- Property -- Education, language, participation -- Non-discrimination -- Reconciling majority and minority interests -- Involvement in the decision-making process -- (Positive) equality as a justificatory test -- Reconciling interests within the group -- Women and the group -- Dissenters and group representation -- Right to judicial protection -- Locus standi and injured party -- Continuing effects of rights violation -- Evidence -- Dimensions of judicial discourse : preliminary observations -- Courts in plural societies -- The theoretical debate -- The case of socio-economic rights -- International jurisprudence re-assessed -- Expanding on the procedural model -- Between substance and procedure -- Interpretation as cross-fertilisation -- On judicial persuasiveness -- Between universalism and justice.
ISBN
  • 9789004176720 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004176721 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009015086
OCLC
  • ocn318243597
  • SCSB-1527538
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library