Constitutional dilemmas : conflicts of fundamental legal rights in Europe and the USA / Lorenzo Zucca.

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

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Civil rights -- Philosophy -- Europe.

Civil rights -- Philosophy -- United States.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Law, morality, and conflicts of fundamental legal rights

The concept of fundamental legal rights

The anatomy of conflicts of fundamental legal rights

A framework to deal with conflicts of fundamental legal rights

The fundamental legal right to privacy

The fundamental legal right to informational privacy v. the fundamental legal right to free press

Mortal conflicts of fundamental legal rights : the fundamental legal right to life v. the fundamental legal right to decisional privacy.

The main argument of this book is that much can be learned about the nature of fundamental legal rights by examining them through the lens of conflicts among such rights. Taking up the problem of conflicting rights, Zucca seeks a theory of rights that can guide us to a richer, more responsive approach to rights discourse.

Table of contents and index are taken from the published work with the permission of the publisher.

Revised version of PhD thesis submitted to the European University Institute, Florence in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oxford scholarship online. Law collection.

9780199204977

0199204977

xvi, 188 p. ; 24 cm