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The creation of the Constitutional Court of Korea by the 1987 South Korean Constitution symbolizes a new era of democracy after three decades of military dictatorship in the country. Throughout the thirty years of the Court’s practice, proportionality has been central to its constitutional adjudication. While the structured four-stage doctrine of proportionality was adopted from German public law, this principle has been concretized and deepened through its application by the Constitutional Cour

In A Transnational Human Rights Approach to Human Trafficking: Empowering the Powerless, Yoon Jin Shin proposes an innovative approach to empower individuals victimized by human trafficking, one of the most serious human rights challenges in today's world of globalization and migration. Based on thorough empirical research and extensive comparative studies, Shin illuminates complex realities of migrant individuals experiencing trafficking situations and the problems of the current anti-trafficki

유럽인권재판소는 당사국의 유럽인권협약 위반 여부를 심사함에 있 어 ‘판단의 여지’(Margin of Appreciation) 독트린을 통해 당사국 정부 가 협약의 해석과 적용에 대하여 넓은 판단여지를 가진다는 이유로 문제된 차별행위나 권리제한조치가 정당하다고 보는 판결을 다수의 사안에서 내려오고 있다. 유럽인권재판소는 사생활의 자유, 사상・양 심・종교의 자유, 표현의 자유, 집회・결사의 자유 등 국제적으로 그 제 한에 대하여 엄격한 심사기준이 확립된 영역에 해당 독트린을 적용하 고있다. 재판소는문제된사안이해당사회의도덕, 종교, 문화와밀 접하게 연관되어 있거나 사안의 쟁점에 대하여 협약 당사국들 사이에 통일된 입장이 없다고 판단되는 경우 개별 국가에 대하여 광범위한 판단의 여지를 인정하는 경향을 보인다. 재판소는 이와 같은 해석태 도의 일반적 근거로서 보충성의 원칙, 국내 기관이 인권해석에 있어 국제 재판소보다 원칙적으로 우월하다는 전제, 당사국의 주권과 민주 주의에대한존중등을제시하고

초국경적 이동성과 지구적 상호의존성이 증대하고 인권침해와 인권위기의 양상이 다변화, 초국경화되고 있는 현실에서 국제인권조약 당사국의 인권의무 범위에 대한 영토중심적 접근은 한계를 가질 수밖에 없다. 주권국가 간의 법적 권한 경계로서의 국제공법상 전통적 ‘관할권’ 개념과 국가와 인권주체 개인 간의 관계에 초점을 두고 국가가 가지는 인권의무의 상대방 범위를 정하는 국제인권조약상 ‘관할’(jurisdiction) 개념은 규범적으로 중요한 차이가 있다. 그러나 최근까지 유럽인권재판소는 유럽인권협약 당사국이 부담하는 인권의무 상대방 범위로서의 ‘관할’의 의미가 원칙적으로 일반 국제공법상 해당 국가의 영토적 관할권과 일치한다고 보면서, 개별 사안에서 ‘실효적 지배’라는 개념을 통해 예외적으로 당사국의 역외 인권의무가 인정될 수 있는지를 판단하는 방식을 취하고 있다. 자유권규약위원회와 미주인권재판소의 경우 초국경적 인권사안에 보다 적극적으로 대응하기 위한 새로운 해석적 접근을 제시하고 있으나,

Abstract Through the analytical framework of ‘transnational constitutional engagement’, this article examines the dynamically developing practices of the South Korean Constitutional Court as it engages with international and foreign elements, both within and beyond constitutional adjudication processes. Diverse underlying factors and orientations in varied contexts, and the complex interactions between them, are responsible for shaping the modes of a local constitutional actor’s engagement with

There are three prominent criticisms directed against those engaging with human rights practice: First, the claim that human rights norms effectively erase the local in favor of an abstract universal; second, that human rights enterprises fail to appreciate its Western colonial continuities; and third, that the rights discourse functions predominantly in a top-down mode, drowning out the multitude of voices on the ground. Drawing on the dynamic aspects of human rights practices by and through th

The Elgar Encyclopedia of Human Rights is the most comprehensive reference work in the field of international human rights protection. Comprising over 340 entries, presented alphabetically, and available online and in print, the Encyclopedia addresses the full range of themes associated with the study and practice of human rights in the modern world. The topics range from substantive human rights to the relevant institutions, legal documents, conceptual and procedural issues of international law

In A Transnational Human Rights Approach to Human Trafficking: Empowering the Powerless, Yoon Jin Shin proposes an innovative approach to empower individuals victimized by human trafficking, one of the most serious human rights challenges in today's world of globalization and migration. Based on thorough empirical research and extensive comparative studies, Shin illuminates complex realities of migrant individuals experiencing trafficking situations and the problems of the current anti-trafficki

In A Transnational Human Rights Approach to Human Trafficking: Empowering the Powerless, Yoon Jin Shin proposes an innovative approach to empower individuals victimized by human trafficking, one of the most serious human rights challenges in today's world of globalization and migration. Based on thorough empirical research and extensive comparative studies, Shin illuminates complex realities of migrant individuals experiencing trafficking situations and the problems of the current anti-trafficki

In A Transnational Human Rights Approach to Human Trafficking: Empowering the Powerless, Yoon Jin Shin proposes an innovative approach to empower individuals victimized by human trafficking, one of the most serious human rights challenges in today's world of globalization and migration. Based on thorough empirical research and extensive comparative studies, Shin illuminates complex realities of migrant individuals experiencing trafficking situations and the problems of the current anti-trafficki

As bearers of equal moral worth and universal human rights as recognized by international human rights law, and as non-demos in the state they reside in, non-citizens occupy a dual position in a particular society. They are ironically situated in modern democracy, being subject to domestic law of the state of residence, without holding political membership for participating in that law’s making. With globalization and increasing transnational mobility, the democratic gap experienced by non-citiz

Abstract Several important doctrinal developments in the last few decades of gender equality jurisprudence deserve evaluations for their canonical features and implications from global constitutional perspectives. First, the doctrine of indirect discrimination has been established in a wide range of jurisdictions as canonical, enabling adjudicators in constitutional reasoning to see beyond the formality of law and deliberate on socially structured inequalities and the real-life conditions of wom