Substantive rights have a core that can be meaningfully interpreted and protected; they can exist independently of a particular government or a particular legal system. Procedural rights lack such an ...
Recognizing the difference between substantive and procedural rights helps enormously in understanding the battles over applying the first eight amendments of the U.S. Constitution to the states.
The Calcutta High Court held that the law of limitation is not meant to extinguish substantive rights and must be applied ...
The right to contraception, the right to refuse medical treatment, the right to live with grandparents, and much more: How unwritten liberties came to exist, and ...
In May we saw the lightning flash, a leaked draft opinion showing that a majority of the Supreme Court stood ready to overrule Roe v. Wade and its offspring, Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Then on June ...
The time has come for Nigeria’s judiciary to recalibrate the balance between procedural efficiency and substantive justice. The solution lies not in rigid adherence to a one-size-fits-all rule but in ...
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