The Rights' Orchestra: Proportionality, Balancing, and Viking

Engle, Eric

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The Rights' Orchestra: Proportionality, Balancing, and Viking

Eric Engle

Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law

November 7, 2010

New England Journal of Internaitional Law and Comparative Law, 2011

Abstract:
Uses the cases of Viking and Laval to compare E.U. proportionality to U.S. balancing. Describes the problems of legal reasoning, justification, and hierarchization of fundamental (constitutional) (human) rights. Applies the Coase theorem to constitutional and treaty adjudication.

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Keywords: Proportionality, Balancing, Viking, Laval, Freedom, Right, Establishment, Services, Strike, Collective, Industrial, Action, Justification, Legal Reasoning, Legal Theory, Philosophy of Law, Jurisprudence

JEL Classification: K10, K31, K33, K40

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Date posted: November 8, 2010 ; Last revised: March 15, 2011

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Engle, Eric Allen, The Rights' Orchestra: Proportionality, Balancing, and Viking (November 7, 2010). New England Journal of Internaitional Law and Comparative Law, 2011. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1704503

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