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In recent years the international community has continued to adopt a flow of both binding and non-binding human rights instruments. But despite the significant domestic impact of these developments, most of the literature on human rights has focused on international procedures and institutions, to the neglect of domestic legal arrangements. In this timely volume Professor Alston and a team of distinguished contributors examine the consequences of international human rights treaty obligations at national level. The problems addressed include the transformation of international norms into national law; how to prepare appropriate domestic arrangements for giving effect to international norms (with particular emphasis on the role of the bill of rights); an assessment of the impact of international obligations on domestic legal regimes. This carefully edited collection will be of interest to all practitioners, scholars, and students of the law and theory of international human rights.

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• Notes on Contributors
• 1 Bills of Rights in Comparative Perspective
• I National Level Protection of Human Rights without a Bill of Rights
• 2 How Far Can the Common Law Go Towards Protecting Human Rights
• II The Role of International Norms in the Absence of a Bill of Rights
• 3 The European Convention on Human Rights in the British Courts: Problems Associated with the Incorporation of International Human Rights
• 4 Parliamentary Scrutiny of Human Rights: A Duty Neglected?
• III Comparative Experiences with Bills of Rights
• 5 The Kenyan Bill of Rights
• 6 The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: A Feminist Perspective
• 7 The New Zealand Bill of Rights Experience
• 8 And Some Have Bills of Rights Thrust Upon Them: Hong Kong's Bill of Rights
• 9 A Post-Calvinist Catechism or a Post-Communist Manifesto? Intersecting Narratives in the South African Bill of Rights Debate
• 10|Basic Laws as a Surrogate Bill of Rights: The Case of Israel
• IV The Judiciary and Bills of Rights
• 11 The Impact of a Bill of Rights on the Role of the Judiciary: A Canadian Perspective
• 12 The Impact of a Bill of Rights on the Role of the Judiciary: An Australian Perspective
• Select Bibliography
• Index

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This book is a comparative analysis of various national bills of rights. The nations whose bills of rights are examined include Israel, Kenya, New Zealand, Australia, and Hong Kong. There is a discussion of how far the common law can expand in the protection of human rights. Mary Eberts, a well-known litigator and a founder of LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund), offers a feminist analysis of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The collection analyzes different approaches to the understanding of the functions of bills of rights and their role in the protection of human rights. This is not a book one would read while commuting to work by public transportation. It is a thoughtful analysis of a very important issue by a wide range of specialists united by their interest and concern for human rights. The editor is the well-known Philip Alston, author of Human Rights and the Basic Needs Strategy for Development (1979). For graduate and faculty collections. E. W. Webking; University of Lethbridge

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Philip Alston is at Australian National University.