Civil remedies and human rights in flux : key legal developments in selected jurisdictions / edited by Ekaterina Aristova, Ugljesa Grusic.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Grusic, Ugljesa, editor.

Aristova, Ekaterina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Human rights and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (448 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Hart Publishing, 2022

Summary:

"What private law avenues are open to victims of human rights violations? This innovative new collection explores this question across sixteen jurisdictions in the Global South and Global North. It examines existing mechanisms in domestic law for bringing civil claims in relation to the involvement of states, corporations and individuals in specific categories of human rights violation: (i) assault or unlawful arrest and detention of persons; (ii) environmental harm; and (iii) harmful or unfair labour conditions. Taking a truly global perspective, it assesses the question in jurisdictions as diverse as Kenya, Switzerland, the US and the Philippines. A much needed and important new statement on how to respond to human rights violations."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : civil remedies and human rights in flux / Ekaterina Aristova and Uglješa Grušic

Argentina : untapping the potential of private law constitutionalisation / Martín Hevia and Andrés Constantin

Australia : tort law filling a human rights void / Sarah Joseph and Joanna Kyriakakis

Bangladesh : a constitutional solution for a tort law deficit? / Taqbir Huda

Brazil : a progressive framework on civil liability and human rights protection? / Daniela Arantes Prata and Danilo B Garrido Alves

Canada : backsteps, barriers and breakthroughs in civil liability for sexual assault, transnational human rights violations and widespread environmental harm / Penelope Simons and Heather McLeod-Kilmurray

England and Wales : the common law's answer to international human rights violations / Russell Hopkins

France : untapping the potential of civil liability to remedy human rights violations / Virginie Rouas

Germany : tort law's potential to remedy human rights violations / Leonhard Hübner and Luca Kaller

India : constitutional torts 'ruling the roost'? / Surya Deva

Kenya : constitution, common law and statute in vindication of rights / Jill Cottrell Ghai

The Netherlands : a wide open window for human rights norms? / Lucas Roorda

The Philippines : civil vindications for uncivilised wrongs / Gemma B. Fernandez, Isabel L. Guidote, Raphael Lorenzo, A. Pangalangan and Ruby Rosselle L. Turgade

South Africa : civil liability for constitutional wrongs / Alistair Price

Switzerland : the underuse of civil remedies for corporate and state human rights violations / Nicolas Bueno and Federica De Rossa

Ukraine : the untapped potential of tort law / Bohdan Karnaukh

United States : potential paths forward after the demise of the Alien Tort Statute / Rachel Chambers and Jena Martin.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781509947614

1509947612

9781509947607

1509947604

1-5099-4762-0

OCLC:

1291223157