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Human Rights As Preconditions For Intercultural Society, Mireille Hildebrandt
Human Rights As Preconditions For Intercultural Society, Mireille Hildebrandt
Mireille Hildebrandt
In this contribution human rights will be considered not simply as conditions for an intercultural society such as the European Union but as preconditions, or, in other words, human rights will be conceptualized as constitutive and not as causal or moral conditions for 'European Integration'. This means that the level of the analysis is epistemological rather than methodological, though at many points I will indicate the consequences of this approach for the way comparative law can be practiced, if it is to contribute to an intercultural 'area of freedom, security and justice' (art. 29 of the Treaty of the European …