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Human rights in private law

In this book the expansion of human right legislation in national and international law is examined from theoretical and comparative perspectives.
Print Book, English, 2001
Hart, Oxford, 2001
proceedings (reports)
xxi, 393 pages ; 24 cm
9781841132136, 9781841132549, 1841132136, 1841132543
47637161
Introduction, Daniel Friedmann and Daphne Barak-Erez. Part 1 Constitutional value and private law - the theoretical framework: constitutional human rights and private law, Aharon Barak; constitutional values and private law in Canada, Lorraine E. Weinrib and Ernest J. Weinrib; determining the stakes - binding and non-binding bills of rights, Anton Fagan; human rights and private law in German constitutional development and in the jurisdiction of the federal constitutional court, Christian Starck; importing constitutional values through blanket clauses, Andreas Heldrich and Gebhard M. Rehm. Part 2 The impact of the European convention on human rights: the impact of the human rights act 1998 on English tort and contract law, High Beale and Nicola Pittam; the European convention of human rights and fundamental freedoms and German private law, Reinhard Ellger. Part 3 Contract and property law: freedom of contract, human rights and human dignity, Roger Brownsword; equality of opportunity and private law, Peter Benson; property rights, public policy and the limits of the legal power to discriminate, Amnon Reichman. Part 4 Labour law: enforcement of employment contracts and the anti-slavery norm, Todd D. Rakoff; human rights and the employment relationship - a look through the prism of juridification, Guy Mundlak. Part 5 The law of torts: negligence and human rights -reconsidering "Osman", Ewan McKendrick; horizontal equality and the law of torts, Ofer Grosskopf; privacy in the digital age - vanishing in cyberspace?, Gebhard M. Rehm.
Includes index