Comparative Human Rights Law

ISBN: 9780199689415 出版年：2018 页码：513 Fredman, Sandra Oxford University Press

Comparative human-rights law has gained significant traction since 1945. At the end of World War Two there were only twelve established constitutional democracies in the world. By 1987 this number had grown to 66 and by 2003 it had increased to 121. As Martin Loughlin writes ('The contemporary crisis of constitutional democracy' (2019) 39 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 435 at 436): 'By the new millennium almost every State seeking to legitimate its rule in the eyes of its citizens and the world felt obliged to adopt a written constitution incorporating a doctrine of separation of powers, a commitment to the rule of law, the protection of individual rights and the holding of free and fair elections. At the end of the 20th century, it appeared that there was only one game in town and that game was constitutional democracy.'