A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the European Convention on Human Rights
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Description
In this book, Alec Stone Sweet and Clare Ryan provide an accessible introduction to Kantian constitutional theory and the law and politics of European rights protection. Part I sets out Kant's blueprint for achieving Perpetual Peace and constitutional justice within and beyond the nation state. Part II applies these ideas to explain the gradual constitutionalization of a Cosmopolitan Legal Order: a transnational legal system in which justiciable rights are held by individuals; where public officials bear the obligation to fulfill the fundamental rights of all who come within the scope of their jurisdiction; and where domestic and transnational judges supervise how officials act. Such an order was instantiated in Europe through the combined effects of Protocol no. 11 (1998) to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the incorporation of the Convention into national law.
ISBN
9780198825340
Publication Date
7-17-2018
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Recommended Citation
Sweet, Alec Stone and Ryan, Clare, "A Cosmopolitan Legal Order: Kant, Constitutional Justice, and the European Convention on Human Rights" (2018). Books. 55.
https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/fac_books/55