What should and what should not to be counted as a human right? What does it mean to identify a right as a human right? And what are the most effective and legitimate means of promoting human rights? This book addresses these questions and the complex relationship between the answers to them.

Introduction ; PART I: CONCEPTUAL BOUNDARIES AND FUNCTIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ; 1. Human Rights: The Shifting Boundaries ; 2. Freedom of Expression as a Human Right ; 3. Human Rights Concepts in Australian Political Debate ; 4. Human Rights, Rule of Law, and American Constitutionalism ; PART II: DEMOCRATIC FOUNDATIONS ; 5. Rights, Rules, and Democracy ; 6. Rights and Democracy: A Reconciliation of the Institutional Debate ; 7. Representation-Reinforcing Review: Comparing Experiences in the United States and Australia ; 8. A Defence of the Status Quo ; 9. Aspiring to the Rule of Law ; PART III: INSTITUTIONAL DESIGNS ; 10. Non-judicial Review ; 11. Parliament and Rights ; 12. Constructing a Community-Based Bill of Rights Model ; 13. Judicial Review, Legislative Override, and Democracy ; 14. Addressing Homelessness: Does Australia's Indirect Implementation of Human Rights Comply with its International Obligations? ; 15. Indigenous Rights ; 16. The Case for Social Rights

Addresses the global phenomenon of bills of rights, and advances the debate, emphasising alternatives to entrenched bills of rights and considering enforcement processes and institutions outside of the courts, it thus makes a valuable and distinctive addition to existing literature, which is highly court-centred Considers the boundaries of human rights, exploring difficult conceptual questions about the nature of rights and blending sceptical and constructive approaches Confronts the problem of reconciling bills of rights with democracy

Tom Campbell is Professorial Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, Charles Sturt University. Jeffrey Goldsworthy is Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law, Monash University. Adrienne Stone is a Fellow in the Law Program at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Addresses the global phenomenon of bills of rights, and advances the debate, emphasising alternatives to entrenched bills of rights and considering enforcement processes and institutions outside of the courts, it thus makes a valuable and distinctive addition to existing literature, which is highly court-centred Considers the boundaries of human rights, exploring difficult conceptual questions about the nature of rights and blending sceptical and constructive approaches Confronts the problem of reconciling bills of rights with democracy