Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights: The Judge’s Dilemma

Under the influence of the global spread of human rights, legal disputes are increasingly framed in human rights terms. Parties to a legal dispute can often invoke human rights norms in support of their competing claims. Yet, when confronted with cases in which human rights conflict, judges face a dilemma. They have to make difficult choices between superior norms that deserve equal respect. In this high-level book, the author sets out how judges the world over could resolve conflicts between human rights. He presents an innovative legal theoretical account of such conflicts, questioning the relevance of the influential proportionality test to their resolution. Instead, the author develops a novel resolution framework, specifically designed to tackle human rights conflicts. The book combines concerted normative theory with profound practical analysis, firmly rooting its theoretical arguments in human rights practice. Although the analysis draws primarily on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the book?s core arguments are applicable to judicial practice in general. As such, the book should be of great interest to academics, postgraduate students and legal practitioners in Europe and beyond. The book is particularly suited for use in advanced courses on legal theory, human rights law and jurisprudence.Additional ISBNs9781138658011, 9781315621012, 9781317218685, 9781317218661Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights: The Judge’s Dilemma 1st Edition is written by Stijn Smet and published by Routledge. ISBNs for Resolving Conflicts between Human Rights are 9781317218678, 1317218671 and the print ISBNs are 9780367075668, 0367075660. Additional ISBNs include 9781138658011, 9781315621012, 9781317218685, 9781317218661.