Constitutional Dilemmas: Conflicts of Fundamental Legal Rights
in Europe and the USA King's College London School of Law June
26, 2007 Lorenzo Zucca, CONSTITUTIONAL DILEMMAS: CONFLICTS OF
FUNDAMENTAL LEGAL RIGHTS IN EUROPE AND THE USA, Oxford
University Press, 2007 This book deals with one of the most
important issues of philosophy of law and constitutional
thought: how to understand clashes of fundamental rights, such
as the conflict between free speech and privacy. The main
argument of this book is that much can be learned about the
nature of fundamental legal rights by examining them through the
lens of conflicts among such rights, and criticizing the views
of scholars and jurists who have discussed both fundamental
legal rights and the nature of conflicts among them. Theories of
rights are necessarily abstract, aiming at providing the best
possible answers to pressing social problems. Yet such theories
must also respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day.
Taking up the problem of conflicting rig