ISBN : 9780198825340
An introduction to Immanuel Kant's constitutional theory, and to the European system of rights protection, this book explains how European Court of Human Rights has become the most active and important rights-protecting court in the world through its manifestation as a Kantian cosmopolitan legal order.
Introduction and Overview
Part I: Kantian Imperatives
1 Perpetual Peace and the Cosmopolitan Constitution
2 A Kantian System of Constitutional Justice
3 Transnational Justice and Constitutional Pluralism
Part II: The European Convention on Human Rights
4 Beyond Individual Justice
5 Beyond Rights Minimalism
6 Beyond Borders
Conclusions