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The Principle of Equality

1995
Abstract This chapter describes the doctrine of equality, and how far it is a general principle of the Constitution. It specifically argues that the Conseil constitutionnel's notion of equality is quite limited. Rather than a value of general application, equality is mainly concerned with non-discrimination in relation to specific ...
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The Principle of Equal Interests

The Philosophical Review, 1981
M Or y title is an abbreviation. By the Principle of Equal Interests I mean the principle of giving equal weight to the equal interests of different people. By equal interests I mean interests which matter equally, or are equally important, to the different people who have them.
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The Principle of Equality

2006
Abstract The notion of equality is closely linked to the idea of justice and has perhaps greater resonance than any other legal concept. The principle of equality operates at the moral, political and legal level. It was perceived as an attribute of human dignity and played a prominent role in the theories of leading political thinkers ...
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The principle of equality as a transnational principle

2019
The chapter presents the shortcomings of the principle of equality as a source of European Union (EU) law and discusses these shortcomings in light of the origin and development of the principle as a transnational phenomenon.The equality principle has been developed by the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) with reference to the common constitutional ...
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Principles of Equality

Education has long been recognised as a basic human right and a critically-important requisite for the productivity and well-being of individuals and for the economic and social development of entire societies. Social justice and equal opportunity in education are fundamental principles that underpin efforts to create a more just and equitable society.
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Two principles of equal language recognition

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2016
Within the umbrella of equal recognition, several principles of linguistic justice can be distinguished. A first, the per-capita principle, mandates prorating language recognition based on a per-capita distribution. A second, the equal-services principle, prescribes upholding the official languages as the languages in which the state speaks and in ...
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Beyond the principle of equal interests

2022
This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
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The principle of sovereign equality

2002
INTRODUCTION: SOVEREIGNTY AND EQUALITY Neither ‘sovereignty’2 nor ‘equality’3 is an idea which is unambiguous or easy to understand. Each has a ‘natural’ connotation, as in claims that states must be sovereign or that all men are created equal, which make it difficult to prise away the legal meaning of the terms from the powerful political slogans they
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THE SUBSTANTIVE PRINCIPLE OF EQUAL TREATMENT

Legal Theory, 2009
This paper attempts to identify a principle of equal treatment that gives specific structure to our widely shared judgments about the circumstances in which we have moral reason to object to the differential adverse treatment of others. I formulate what I call a “substantive” principle of equal treatment (to be distinguished from principles of formal ...
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Cross-jurisdiction appropriation of the equal authenticity principle

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 2013
This paper investigates how the equal authenticity principle, commonly adopted by balanced bilingual or multilingual jurisdictions, changes in meaning, value and function as it travels across jurisdictions with different sociopolitical realities. I illustrate how the framing of the concept has subtly shifted in the process of statutory drafting and ...
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