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• Title:Proportionality and judicial activism : fundamental rights adjudication in Canada, Germany and South Africa / Niels Petersen, Professor of Public Law, International Law and EU Law, University of Münster, Faculty of Law.
  
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• Author/Creator:Petersen, Niels.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Cambridge Core EBA eBooks Complete Collection
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• Published/Created:Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
  

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• Library of Congress Subjects:Political questions and judicial power--Canada.
  Political questions and judicial power--Germany.
  Political questions and judicial power--South Africa.
  Proportionality in law--Canada.
  Proportionality in law--Germany.
  Proportionality in law--South Africa.
  Court of last resort--Canada.
  Court of last resort--Germany.
  Court of last resort--South Africa.
  
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• Summary:"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"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Based on author's thesis (Habilitation - Universität, Bonn, 2012) issued under title: Verhältnismässigkeit als Rationalitätskontrolle : eine rechtsempirische Studie verfassungsrechtlicher Rechtsprechung zu den Freiheitsgrundrechten.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781107177987
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 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.