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Human Rights As Comparative Constitutional Law, Jacob W.F. Sundberg
Human Rights As Comparative Constitutional Law, Jacob W.F. Sundberg
Akron Law Review
This was the background of the Akron symposium on human rights as comparative constitutional law. The purpose of the symposium was to expose U.S. constitutional and international law experts to the working of these human rights protection systems in which decisions under the U.N. Covenant for Civil and Political Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights have arrived at an independent and influential, if not even precedent-setting role in relation to the national courts. Decision making by the U.S. Supreme Court is the focus of the teaching of Constitutional Law in the United States.
Having a number of European …