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Liberty Intact: Human Rights in English Law

Autor Michael Tugendhat
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 15 dec 2016

Observăm o perspectivă istorică și juridică provocatoare: ideea că drepturile omului nu sunt o invenție modernă de import, ci o evoluție organică a sistemului juridic englez. Putem afirma că volumul Liberty Intact constituie o demonstrație riguroasă a modului în care Common Law-ul a prefigurat Declarația Universală a Drepturilor Omului din 1948. Remarcăm faptul surprinzător că multe dintre libertățile documentate în secolul al XVIII-lea erau deja înrădăcinate în politica și legislația engleză încă din secolul al XV-lea. Autorul, Michael Tugendhat, analizează meticulos influența comentariilor lui Blackstone asupra revoluțiilor care au modelat lumea modernă, de la 1642 până la 1791. Structurat în trei secțiuni fundamentale, volumul oferă mai întâi un context istoric, trece apoi la examinarea descendenței directe a declarațiilor americane și franceze din dreptul englez și culminează cu o analiză a funcțiilor actuale ale acestor drepturi. Complementar volumului Human Rights, Constitutional Law and the Development of the English Legal System de Derry Irvine, care se concentrează pe reformele constituționale britanice recente de după 1997, lucrarea lui Tugendhat merge mult mai adânc în istorie, căutând rădăcinile medievale ale libertăților civile. De asemenea, față de On the Spirit of Rights, care explorează genealogia intelectuală a drepturilor naturale, Tugendhat ancorează discuția în precedența juridică și practica judiciară concretă. Dacă în lucrarea sa anterioară, Commercial Fraud, autorul aborda patologia sistemului financiar și a infracționalității, în Liberty Intact el revine la fundamentul filosofic și legal al societății libere, oferind o pledoarie autoritară pentru superioritatea și vechimea tradiției juridice britanice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198790990
ISBN-10: 0198790996
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 173 x 239 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte profesioniștilor din domeniul juridic și istoricilor care doresc să înțeleagă geneza reală a libertăților civile. Veți descoperi argumente tehnice care demonstrează că drepturile omului sunt, în esență, drept britanic consolidat de secole. Este o lectură esențială pentru a demonta mitul conform căruia aceste standarde sunt impuse din exterior, oferind în schimb o perspectivă de mândrie profesională asupra Common Law-ului.


Despre autor

Michael Tugendhat este un distins jurist britanic, judecător al Curților de Apel din Jersey și Guernsey și Deputy High Court Judge. Educația sa vastă cuprinde studii de Clasici și Filosofie la Cambridge, urmate de specializări în drept internațional la Yale și Academia de Drept Internațional de la Haga. Expertiza sa nu se limitează la sala de judecată, fiind mediator acreditat de Organizația Mondială a Proprietății Intelectuale și arbitru internațional. Această dublă perspectivă, de practician și academician, îi permite să abordeze evoluția drepturilor omului cu o precizie juridică dublată de o înțelegere profundă a contextului istoric european.


Descriere

What are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World? How has English Common Law influenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950? These questions and more are answered in Michael Tugendhat's historical account of human rights from the eighteenth century to present day. Focusing specifically on the first modern declarations of the rights of mankind- the 'Virginian Declaration of Rights', 1776, the French 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen', 1789, and the 'United States Bill of Rights', 1791- the book recognises that the human rights documented in these declarations of the eighteenth century were already enshrined in English common law, many originating from English law and politics of the fifteenth century. The influence of English Common Law , taken largely from Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, can also be realised in the British revolutions of 1642 and 1688; the American and French Revolutions of 1776 and 1789 respectively; and through them, on the UDHR and ECHR. Moreover, Tugendhat argues that British law, in all but a few instances, either meets or exceeds human rights standards, and thus demonstrates that human rights law is British law and not a recent invention imported from abroad. Structured in three sections, this volume (I) provides a brief history of human rights; (II) examines the rights found in the American and French declarations and demonstrates their ancestry with English law; and (III) discusses the functions of rights and how they have been, and are, put to use.

Recenzii

During a turbulent time for constitutional law in general, and human rights law in particular, it is refreshing to read a book which radiates with optimism. Works by former judges are often fascinating insights into the judicial mind. This book, by former High Court judge Michael Tugendhat, is therefore to be doubly welcomed. ... Tugendhat has taken care to make the book accessible - an admirable feat for such complex subject matter. He has explained difficult concepts in clear language and presented his thoughts in short, snappy chapters.
This is an invaluable book in seeking to defend human rights by exploring their English law origins. A great deal of historical material is assembled for the task. The case is convincingly and cogently made. ... if Sir Michael Tugendhat's book attracts the attention it deserves the landscape of rights litigation and discourse might well change, and take on a more British complexion.
In this thoughtful book [Michael Tugendhat] considers the influence of English common law on a number of human rights instruments, both before and after the current efflorescence of bills of rights, and argues that the standards laid down in common law were just as robust as, if not more so than, those contained in documents such as the European Convention on Human Rights.
I have read [Liberty Intact] with much pleasure... I found [it] very stimulating and thought provoking.
Liberty Intact is a timely reminder of the capacity of the common law to provide robust, influential and context appropriate protection of fundamental rights in the United Kingdom, and its ability to do so in a self-sufficient and coherent manner... Certainly, everyone, whether lawyer or non-lawyer, should read it.
This excellent book by Sir Michael Tugendhat... sets out to persuade readers to justify reliance on human rights priciples primarily by reference to English common law and statute law, rather than reaching immediately for the articles of the ECHR. The critical issue going forward, if certain sources of rights such as the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights were abrogated, would be to be in a position to argue cases based on English law along. This book would facilitate such arguments while at the same time allaying public concern about such rights or principles being imposed from the outside. It is to be warmly welcomed.
[Tugendhat's] arguments are expertly executed. With meticulous detail, [he] shows the reader how each of the Convention rights has its origins in British law... it is a powerful book.

Notă biografică

Sir Michael Tugendhat was a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales from 2003 to June 2014. He was a scholar at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge where he graduated in Classics and Philosophy. In 1967-8 he held a Henry Fellowship at Yale University. He practised at the English Bar from 1970 to 2003 specialising in media and commercial law. He was a judge of the Courts of Appeal of Jersey and Guernsey, and was the Judge in Charge of the High Court's Queen's Bench Division civil lists. As a barrister and a judge he was involved in many of the cases in which the law of freedom of expression and privacy were developed in the light of human rights.