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Author Ziegler, Katja S

Title Human Rights and Private Law : Privacy as Autonomy
Published Oxford : Hart Pub., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (242 pages)
Series Studies of the OIECL
Studies of the OIECL
Contents Half Title Page; Half Title verso; Title Page; Title verso; Series Editor's Foreword; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; Table of Cases; Table of International and European Instruments; Table of National Instruments; 1. Introduction: Human Rights and Private Law -- Privacy as Autonomy; Part I: Cross-Sectional Issues: Human Rights and Private Law; Part I.A: Privacy as a Human Right in Conflict with Other Human Rights; 2. The Core Business of Privacy Law: Protecting Autonomy; Part I.B: Public-Private Law Cross-over: Horizontality of Human Rights; 3. Human Rights and Private Law
Summary Privacy today is much debated as an individual's right against real or feared intrusions by the state, as exemplified by proposed identity cards and surveillance measures in the United Kingdom. In contrast, invasions of privacy by private individuals or bodies tend to arouse less concern. This book attempts to fill the gap by looking at the horizontal application of human rights after Douglas v Hello, Campbell v MGN and Caroline von Hannover v Germany. It provides a conceptual and theoretical framework and also considers specific particularly sensitive areas of law relating to privacy protecti
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Subject Privacy, Right of -- European Union countries -- Congresses
Human rights -- European Union countries -- Congresses
Privacy & data protection.
Political Science -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
Human rights
Privacy, Right of
European Union countries
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781847313607
1847313604
9781847317025
1847317022