This book of essays,the product of a conference held at the University of Birmingham in the spring of 1998, contains contributions from a group of extremely dis

Having identified proportionality as the main tool for limiting constitutional rights, Aharon Barak explores its four components (proper purpose, rational conne

The book focuses on Robert Alexy's theory of constitutional rights. Alexy systematically presented the theory in his seminal book Theorie der Grundrechte (1985;

From the ancient origins of Just War doctrine to contemporary theories of punishment, concepts of proportionality have long been an instrumental part of the rul

Presents a comparison of the development in European and English law of two legal principles, legitimate expectations and proportionality, against the different