Book Review: Freedom of expression and freedom of information: essays in honour of Sir David Williams
| Date | 01 June 2001 |
| Published date | 01 June 2001 |
| DOI | 10.1177/092405190101900215 |
| Subject Matter | New Books |
NQHR2/2001
of
the European Convention on Human Rights into British law. Presenting extracts from key
cases the authors explain the legal rules and court system that has evolved in Strasbourg, how
the Court works, and how European human rights law is enforced both at the national and
international level.
Freedom
of
expression andfreedom
of
information: essaysin honour
of
Sir David
Williams
/ ed. by Jack Beatson and Yvonne Cripps. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. - lvii,
421 p.
ISBN: 0-19-826839-4
This publication deals with issues on freedom
of
expression and freedom
of
information and
emphasises the importance
of
the free exchange and dissemination
of
ideas and
of
open
government. It notes the ways in which these freedoms have received recent legislative
attention in the Human Rights Act 1998, the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 and the
Freedom
of
Information Bill.
Freedom
of
religion underthe
European
Convention
on Human Rights /Carolyn Evans. -
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. - xxiv, 222 p. - (Oxford
ECHR
series;
no. 1)
ISBN: 0-19-924364-6
While it is generally agreed that religious freedom is a fundamental right, there is little
consensus about its content or scope. This book provides adetailed analysis
of
the law
of
freedom
of
religion or beliefas developed under the European Convention on Human Rights.
The first part sets the context, historical and theoretical, in which the interpretation
of
religious freedom in the Convention takes place. The second looks at the meaning
of
the
provisions for the protection
of
freedom
of
religion or belief. The third part explores the
limitations that a State may place on that freedom. Some
of
the issues raised include the role
of
religious education in State schools, permissible limitations on proselytism, the rights
of
conscientious objectors, and the scope
of
religious freedom for prisoners.
Human
rightsfrom exclusion to inclusion; principlesand practice: an anthology from the
workofTheo vanBoven /ed. by Fons Coomans ... ret al.] - The Hague: Kluwer, 2000. - xiv,
503 p.
ISBN: 90-411-1377-0
Professor Theo van Boven has made his mark in the field
of
human rights by writing a vast
number
of
scholarly articles, reports, studies, congress papers and the like, covering many
topics. Most
of
his work has been published in law journals, textbooks, Festschrifts and other
sources. Since not all
of
these publications are easily accessible, it is the purpose
of
this
anthology to bring together aselection
of
his writings from 1966 to 1998. The editors (Fons
Coomans, Cees Flinterman, Fred Grunfeld, Ingrid Westendorp and Jan Willems) have
focused on those subjects that played amajor part during Theo van Boven's career and that
are, in their view, the most interesting to the reader. This volume contains papers on such
issues as the United Nations and its role as regards human rights, racial discrimination, the
right to rehabilitation, the international criminal tribunals, the role
ofNGOs
and more. The
papers have been arranged in different groups under general headings. Within each group,
articles dealing with the same subject have been put in chronological order. A detailed
bibliography, covering most
of
Theo van Boven's publications, is included in this book.
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