Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information

This book, ***Developments in Human Rights Law and the Proposed Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information: The New Human Rights-Advocacy Approach and the Ten Criteria for the Formal Recognition of New Human Rights***, is Volume 1 of the four-volume New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series). The other volumes are *The New Human Rights-Based Huricompatisation Model of Ascertainment of Indigenous Customary Law: Strategies for Adequate Local and Global Public Access* (Volume 2); *Innovative Technological Mechanisms for Adequate Web-Based Access to National and Global Public Legal Information* (Volume 3); and *A Model Empirical Study of the Current State of Governmental Provision of Free Access to Nigerian Public Legal Information* (Volume 4). The book offers the first and only comprehensive analysis of the right of every person (including persons with disabilities and indigenous peoples) to know the laws that regulate their conduct and activities, which they are presumed to know and are bound to obey under the rule of law. It devises the universal legal remedy for the grave injustice in the slavish application of the equally universal ancient and modern doctrine of ignorance of the law is no excuse (**ignorantia juris non excusat**) to punish people worldwide for violating laws that are inaccessible and thereby unknowable to them. It argues that the right to know the law requires free adequate access to all formats (physical and digital or electronic) of the official and authentic versions of all categories of public legal information, including legislation (statute law), court judgments, regulations and orders, law-related public documents, and regional and international legal instruments. It discusses the corresponding moral and rule-of-law exclusive legal duty of every tier of government (local, regional, and national) and every intergovernmental organisation (IGO) with law-making and judicial powers (e.g. the United Nations, the European Union, and the African Union) to provide the required free adequate access to all categories of their laws. The book introduces the concept of free access to public legal information in the discussion of its key terminology, multidisciplinary perspectives, and historical overview. It uniquely analyses the persistent global problem of inadequate access to public legal information and uses a qualitative cause-elimination technique, developed for the study, to identify its root cause

שנה

2021

שפה

English

סדרה

New Human Right of Free Access to Public Legal Information Book Series

הוצאה

Koinonia Legal Research and Book Publishing

מהדורות

1

ISBN

9789083108520

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