Foreign fads or fashions? The role of comparativism in human rights law

Although there is a broadly similar core of human rights law and courts in different jurisdictions face strikingly similar questions, the use of comparative law in the human rights context remains controversial. Reference to foreign human rights materials is regarded as undemocratic, selective and m...

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Main Author: Fredman, S
Format: Journal article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2015