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Title Sincerely believing in freedom: a reconstruction and comparison of the interpretation of the freedom of religion and belief on the Canadian Supreme Court, the South African Constitutional Court and the European Court of Human Rights
Date 2023
Author(s) Theissen, F.H.K.
Contributor(s) Lawson, R.A.; Napel, H.M.T.D. ten; Bijsterveld, S.C. van (Committee member); Duffy, H. (Committee member); Loenen, M.L.P. (Committee member); O'Reagan, C. (Committee member); Rijpkema, B.R. (Committee member); Leiden University
Abstract Those who believe ' including those who believe divergently and those who disbelieve ' can clash in daily life with others who believe or disbelieve differently. They can come into conflict with laws and regulations or with state institutions that disturb, interfere with their lives based on those beliefs. When these conflicts reach the courts, they are adjudicated under the freedom of religion and belief. Sometimes, similar cases lead to different outcomes in different jurisdictions. The notion that judicial interpretation matters for human rights is almost uncontested. This study is interested in the standard interpretations of the freedom of religion and belief by the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and the European Court of Human Rights. From each of these Courts, 15 cases were selected and systematically analyzed to reconstruct the standard interpretations. They have been compared to find similarities and differences, in terms of optimal protection of believers. The study also analyses and compares the standard interpretations from the perspective of Cass Sunstein's judicial minimalism. The ultimate goal is to find best practices for optimal protection of believers in the judicial interpretation of the freedom of religion and belief and to enable possible judicial borrowing. - Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights in a pluralist world
Subject(s) Freedom of religion and belief; Human rights; Universal rights; Legal theory; Comparative law; Judicial interpretation; Constitutional interpretation; Judicial minimalism; Judicial borrowing
Language en
Type of publication Doctoral Thesis; info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis; Text
Format application/pdf
Source Meijers-reeks
Identifier isbn:9789464732474; lucris-id:1271578582
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2023-12-06;10:58:42