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Some Recent Cases Delaying The Direct Effect Of International Treaties In Dutch Law, Henry G. Schermers
Some Recent Cases Delaying The Direct Effect Of International Treaties In Dutch Law, Henry G. Schermers
Michigan Journal of International Law
This article is meant as a comment on some recent Dutch cases concerning the effect within the domestic law of the Netherlands of the prohibition of discrimination laid down in Article 7a(i) of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and of Article 26 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The cases were decided by the Centrale Raad van Beroep, which is the Dutch supreme court in some fields of administrative law, such as the law on civil servants and several laws on social security. The cases are particularly interesting with respect to the …
"Federal" Aspects Of The European Convention On Human Rights, Colin Warbrick
"Federal" Aspects Of The European Convention On Human Rights, Colin Warbrick
Michigan Journal of International Law
The inquiry pursued in this paper has been prompted by a paradox. In the United States, the Supreme Court has been reluctant to find any constitutional limitations upon the power of the States to allow the administration of corporal punishment in schools, despite being able to rely on the national Bill of Rights - in the interpretation of which the Court has many times circumscribed the power of the State governments in other contexts. The result has been that some children have been left without redress when they have been subjected to exceptionally severe punishment. Under the system of the …