Proportionality, Balancing, and Rights: Robert Alexy's Theory of Constitutional Rights

By Jan-Reinard Sieckmann

Constitutional Rights, Proportionality, and Argumentation.- The Role of Morality in Balancing Constitutional Rights.- Constitutional discretion and proportionality: the positivistic weight formula.- Proportionality and meta-weighing of reasons.- Limited Balancing. The Principle of Human Dignity and its Inviolability.- Balancing Rights and Interests. On Schauer's Asymmetry Thesis.- To Balance or not to Balance: The Quest for the Essence of Rights.- An argument for the proportionality test in concrete: challenging the margin of appreciation doctrine from a gender perspective in intersection with poverty.- Proportionality Test and Constitutional Social Rights Adjudication.- "Thou shalt balance" - Making sense of the delegation of the proportionality testing to the end users of law​.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030773205
• ISBN13: 9783030773205
• Release Date: August 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"