Original scientific paper
GLOBAL JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS AND ROLE OF GLOBAL LAW
Georg Lohmann
; Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet Magdeburg, Institut fuer Philosophie, Magdeburg, Deutschland
Abstract
The author deals with the background and the types of human rights in the era of globalization and looks into the proposals of their global institutionalization. His assumption is that the increased legal normatization of global legal regimes on the basis of human rights is in the rational interest of the actors of global law. There are five main ideas: the democratization of all states, the global institutionalization of the direct global civil law, the global federal republic, the international legal solutions and, the global law. The global institutionalization of human rights has been beset by various problems and it requires different approaches which should be seen as mutually corrective. The globally-oriented weak publics are a kind of a forum in which individual solutions’ relevance must be argumented. They affect the globally-operating strong publics. The author concludes that the demand for global justice remains a normative measure towards which the education of the public opinion and the public will must be oriented for the sake of the legal formulation of human rights.
Keywords
global justice; global law; institutionalization of law; strong publics; human rights; weak publics
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22838
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Publication date:
11.1.2005.
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