Protecting Human Rights in the EU: Controversies and Challenges of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
By Unknown Author.
Description
Human rights are much talked about and much written about, in academic legal literature as well as in political and other social sciences and the general political debate. This book argues that the universality of basic human rights is one of the values of the concept of rights. It points out the risk of a certain “inflation” caused by the current habit of talking so much and so often about human rights and of using them as a basis for claims of various kinds. These rights, their understanding and interpretation may need to become more “purist” to ensure that univers...
ISBN(s)
3642389015, 9783642389016
