Public Rights, Private Relations
The abuse of workers in export processing zones in developing countries, the undignified treatment of elderly people in care homes, and the dangers for internet users' privacy arising from private companies' control of their data are prominent examples of how our most fundamental interests are increasingly jeopardized by powerful private actors. Jean Thomas argues that, while these interests are protected by human and constitutional rights in relation to the state,no similar protections exist in relations among private actors. To address this problem, she develops a theoretical framework for the application of human and constitutional rights…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-166558-5
- EAN: 9780191665585
- Produktnummer: 18391518
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 350 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 27'657 KB
Über den Autor
Jean Thomas is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. After her JD (Juris Doctor) studies at the University of Toronto, she completed her JSD (Doctor of Juridicial Science) at New York University. She has been a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford's McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society and a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. Thomas's research centres on questions of legal theory, rights theory inparticular, and on interdisciplinary questions of legal, political, and moral philosophy.
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