Constitutionalizing National Protection of Universal Human Rights in the Formation of Regional ASEAN Human Rights Declaration

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03078
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Fundamental law
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Kuong Teilee 名古屋大学, 法政国際教育協力研究センター, 准教授 (80377788)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 憲法 / アセアン地域統合 / 国際人権条約

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims at clarifying the relevance of international human rights treaties in the process of establishing constitutionalism in the Asean region. The approach towards understanding this issue is by means of revlewing the relationship between constitutional human rights provisions and related human rights treaties and the Asean Human Rights Declaration.
Target countries are mainly those that have adopted or revised the constitution in order to start a regime based on liberal democracy or to liberalize the economy in recent years. Singapore is also included in the study due to its key roles in the formation of the Asean Community.
Constitutions since 1990 in the region have incorporated international human rights languages and the questions of implementation have been much criticized. Apart from the domestic political factors, the unsettled questions of international standards or universal values and their implications in regional context are also causing much uncertainty.

Free Research Field

比較法学