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Defence date: 12 January 1996 ; Supervisor: F. Snyder ; First made available online: 26 September 2016

AbstractAlthough there is a broadly similar core of human rights law and courts in different jurisdictions face strikingly similar questions, the use of comparative law in the human rights context remains controversial. Reference to foreign human rights materials is regarded as undemocratic, selective and misleading. Rather than searching for a single 'right answer', or expecting convergence, this article addresses these challenges from a deliberative perspective. A deliberative approach requires decisions to be taken on the basis of reasons which are thorough and persuasive. Even where outcomes diverge, there need to be good reasons, whether textual, institutional, or cultural. Comparative materials constitute an important contribution to this process. Part I critically assesses various alternative potential functions of comparative law. Part II develops the deliberative model while Part III addresses the main critiques of comparative law. Part IV tests the deliberative approach against a selection of cases dealing with two particularly challenging issues confronted by courts in different jurisdictions, namely the use of substantive principles such as dignity, and the application of justification or limitation clauses in the context of prisoners' right to vote. Case law is drawn from countries which already cite each other and which have broadly similar institutional frameworks: the USA, Canada, South Africa, India, Australia, the UK, New Zealand and the European Court of Human Rights to the extent that it too considers comparative law.

The use of police force is a controversial issue, its justifications is also complex in democratic societies. In this study, research supporting the concept that makes European Court of Human Rights in comparison to the us Supreme Court it addressed, by analyzing various issued by these organs. The objective is know is a convergence process, or not, among these courts in recent years, besides interpretation patterns, common and divergent, trying to make a critical analysis of the phenomenon. ; El uso de la fuerza policial es siempre un tema controvertido, y su justificación también resulta compleja en las sociedades democráticas. En este estudio se aborda el análisis de la concepción justificativa que realiza el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos y su comparación con la de la Corte Suprema Norteamericana, a través del análisis de distintas sentencias emitidas por los citados órganos jurisdiccionales. El objetivo es determinar si en los últimos años existe o no un proceso de convergencia entre las decisiones adoptadas por estos tribunales, así como la detección de patrones interpretativos, tanto comunes como divergentes, con la finalidad de realizar un análisis crítico de la justificación que realizan sobre el fenómeno

Media coverage of human rights and human rights as a foreign policy issue; data compiled from various polls of American opinion, 1975-86.

The editorial team of Homa Publica - Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas proceeded to retract the research because the scientific article was published by another scientific journal. ; El equipo editorial de Homa Publica - Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas - se ha retractado de la investigación porque el artículo científico fue publicado por otra revista científica. ; A Equipe Editorial da Homa Publica - Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos y Empresas procedeu à retratação da pesquisa em razão de o artigo científico ter sido publicado por outro periódico científico, violando as normas de publicação.