On Cultural Rights: The Equality of Nations and the Minority Legal Tradition

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Table of Abbreviations......Page 14
Section I. The Minority Legal Tradition......Page 16
1.1. Introduction......Page 18
1.1a. What is a Cultural Right?......Page 20
1.1b. State Responsibility for the Implementation of Minority Rights......Page 27
1.2. Research Methodologies: The Jurisprudential Context......Page 30
1.2a. The Contextual Approach......Page 34
1.3a. Introduction......Page 37
1.3b. Minority Rights and Liberal Theory......Page 39
1.3c. Minority Rights Case Studies......Page 44
Section II. History of the Minority Regime......Page 50
2.1. Defi nitions......Page 52
2.2. Minority Groups and the Nation-State......Page 56
2.3. To End All Wars......Page 61
2.4. The Equality of Nations......Page 68
2.5. The League of Nations\' Minority Protection Treaty System......Page 72
2.6. The Permanent Court of International Justice and the Minority Schools in Albania Opinion......Page 78
2.7. Decline of the Minority Protection Treaty System......Page 81
3.1. Minorities as the Nazis Human Dynamite......Page 84
3.2. One People Nationalism......Page 87
3.3. The Soviet Union, Minorities, and the Cold War......Page 91
3.4. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948......Page 93
3.5. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966......Page 100
3.6. Article 27 of the ICCPR: The Rights of Minorities......Page 104
Section III. Minority Group Case Studies......Page 114
4. The Minority Regime and the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada......Page 116
4.1. The Aboriginal Peoples of Canada......Page 117
4.2. The Repeal of the Indian Act......Page 122
4.3. History of Canada\'s Indian [Aboriginal] Laws......Page 126
4.4. The Basis for Canada\'s Aboriginal Legal Regime......Page 130
4.5. The Forced Assimilation of Aboriginal-Canadians......Page 134
4.6. Coercive Tutelage and the Residential School System......Page 138
4.7. The Canada - HRC Relationship......Page 146
4.8. Canadian Implementation of the Lovelace Decision......Page 149
4.9. Bill C-31 and the Indian Act......Page 153
4.10. De-Colonisation and Aboriginal Legal Status......Page 159
4.11. Restoring Aboriginal Sovereignty: Transition From Dependent to Independent Peoples......Page 164
5. Minority Rights and the Roma of Europe......Page 170
5.1. Summary of Europe\'s Minority regime......Page 172
5.2. The Roma Peoples......Page 176
5.3. Extra-judicial Execution of the Roma......Page 186
5.4. The Roma-British Challenge to Persecution for Vagrancy......Page 190
5.5. Great Britain\'s Margin of Appreciation......Page 195
5.6. The Concept of Equality in the ECHR Roma Cases......Page 197
5.7. Cultural Protection for the Roma Minority......Page 200
5.8a. Th e Cultural Basis for Persecution of the Roma......Page 206
5.9. Conclusion......Page 213
Section IV. Conclusions......Page 218
6a. Canada\'s Recognition of Aboriginal Nations......Page 220
6b. State Recognition of the Roma Peoples......Page 222
6.1. Consequences of the Minority Regime......Page 225
6.1a. Balkanisation and The Minorit y Regime......Page 227
6.1b. Human Rights and the Minorit y Regime......Page 231
6.1c. Final Comments......Page 232
Bibliography......Page 234
Appendix......Page 253
Index......Page 262
About the Author......Page 272