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Proportionality and Judicial Activism: Fundamental Rights Adjudication in Canada, Germany and South Africa

Proportionality and Judicial Activism: Fundamental Rights Adjudication in Canada, Germany and South Africa

Name: Proportionality and Judicial Activism: Fundamental Rights Adjudication in Canada, Germany and South Africa
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107177987
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Author: Niels Petersen
ISBN: 9781107177987

By Niels Petersen

Cambridge University Press March 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781107177987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: March 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The principle of proportionality is currently one of the most discussed topics in the field of comparative constitutional law. Many critics claim that courts use the proportionality test as an instrument of judicial self-empowerment. Proportionality and Judicial Activism tests this hypothesis empirically; it systematically and comparatively analyses the fundamental rights jurisprudence of the Canadian Supreme Court, the German Federal Constitutional Court and the South African Constitutional Court.

The book shows that the proportionality test does give judges a considerable amount of discretion. However, this analytical openness does not necessarily lead to judicial activism. Instead, judges are faced with significant institutional constraints, as a result of which all three examined courts refrain from using proportionality for purposes of judicial activism.

Introduction

1. Judicial review and the correction of political market failures

2. The normative debate on balancing

3. Balancing and judicial legitimacy

4. Proportionality as a doctrinal construction

5. The avoidance of balancing

6. Rationalising balancing

Conclusion: proportionality and the review of legislative rationality.

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