TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathews,Jud
TI  - Extending rights' reach : constitutions, private law, and judicial power 
SN  - 9780190682941
AV  - K3240 .M3778 2018
U1  - 342.085 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - London
PB  - Oxford University Press 
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - United States
KW  - Germany
KW  - Canada
KW  - Civil law
KW  - Political questions and judicial power
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - Constitutional rights protect individuals against government overreaching, but that is not all they do. In different ways and to different degrees, constitutional rights also regulate legal relations among private parties in most legal systems. In other words, rights can have not only a vertical effect, within the hierarchical relationship between citizen and state, but also a horizontal one, on the citizen-to-citizen relationships otherwise governed by private law. In every constitutional system with judicially enforceable constitutional rights, courts must make choices about whether, when, and how to give those rights horizontal effect. This text is about how different courts make those choices, and about the consequences that they have
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190682910.001.0001
ER  -