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Normative and Institutional Dimensions of Rights' Adjudication Around the World

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AuthorPedro Caro de Sousa
PositionD.Phil. Oxon (Lady Margaret Hall), formerly law lecturer at the University of Reading, currently at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The opinions in this paper are personal
Pages139-164
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

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The implications of incommensurability for rights’ adjudication tend to be overlooked
in much of contemporary constitutional theory. This paper criticizes the dominant
          
approach that is better suited to constitutional rights’ adjudication in contemporary
pluralistic legal orders. It is submitted that the normative reasons for having courts
    
 
  
legal life of the polities in which those courts operate. It is further argued that any
theory that builds from this approach needs to answer two inter-related questions:
        
adjudication should be pursued.
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© 2019 Pedro Caro de Sousa, published by Sciendo.
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License.
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