Human Rights in Europe: Commentary on the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union - Softcover

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Human Rights in Europe is designed to help human rights lawyers and activists, as well as students and scholars of comparative and constitutional law, understand the European Union s Charter of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms. Drafted more than 50 years after the onset of European integration, the Charter is deeply influenced by the disparate legal practices of the member states, as well as by the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 1950 European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. Unlike the U.S. Bill of Rights, the Charter is a lengthy document, which seeks to provide European citizens with specific rights in areas as diverse as family law, labor law, administrative procedure, and the protection of personal data. Building upon an award-winning volume of European scholarship, this book brings together a dozen major Italian professors of constitutional law, political science, and economics, who have written chapters investigating each of the Charter s 54 articles with reference to national and international jurisprudence and political philosophy. Especially prepared for a U.S. audience, this volume is replete with references and sources that provide interested readers with access to some of the best European human rights scholarship available anywhere.

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