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New Human Rights Theories for Post-Constitutional Societies

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After the Second World War, human rights first boomed as traditional liberal human rights in the parliamentary democracies of the West, then in their second dimension as social human rights in Western welfare states as well as in the Eastern socialist countries, and finally in their third dimension as international human rights for environmental protection, peace and development. However, a new world order emerged after the “fall of the wall”, where the neo-liberal interpretation of property rights and the freedom of contract as well as the denial of the social responsibility of the state dominated. This new world order asked for new paradigms that have overcome the conception of the liberal, social and international human rights of the post-war era.

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Richter, I. (2017). New Human Rights Theories for Post-Constitutional Societies. In: Burchardt, M., Kirn, G. (eds) Beyond Neoliberalism. Approaches to Social Inequality and Difference. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45590-7_14

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