Description: This book seeks to demonstrate how the design and enforcement of a human rights instrument may influence the result of that exercise.
Brief description: Stefan Sottiaux is Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law and Discrimination Law at the University of Leuven.
Review Quotes:
"This is a highly informative study that will be of interest to a broad range of academics and can be drawn upon as additional reading for advanced courses on human rights. It is a very welcome addition to the literature on human rights and terrorism. Different readers will gain different things from a thought-provoking study." --Ed Bates, Human Rights Law Review, Vol 9, No 3
"In view of the concerns over terrorism and the preoccupation with human rights protections in the contemporary world, Sottiaux's study on the limitations of rights is a most welcome contribution to the legal scholarship...Sottiaux provides a useful analysis of the judicial review of contemporary strategies of counter-terrorism on the basis of human rights considerations." --Mathieu Deflem, The Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 18 No.7 "Until now there did not exist a clear composition drawing up the differences between the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and the Bill of Rights in the US Constitution with regard to terrorism-related limitations. With the current book Sottiaux filled that gap admirably and thus created a precious help for practitioners in that field of law." --Katrin Gruber, Vienna Online Journal on International Constitutional Law, Issue 4/2008 "...Stefan Sottiaux delivers an impressively comprehensive and detailed examination of this issue...In its primary purpose the analysis of how a model of limitation may influence the outcome of the 'balancing exercise' the book is compelling. It is to be recommended as an excellent review of the relevant ECHR and US case-law for anyone interested in the relationship between counter-terrorism and human rights." --Daniel Moeckli, Modern Law Review 72 (1) "This impressive and highly relevant book offers both a theoretical account of the paradoxical relationship between terrorism and human rights, and a comprehensive comparative survey of the major decisions in this respect of the highest courts on both sides of the Atlantic, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and the United States Supreme Court (SC). This work is highly recommended as an excellent description and legal analysis of the ECHR, US Constitution and their case-law, specifically in relation to counter-terrorism and human rights." --Réno Pijnen, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, Vol 28/2