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Critically examining the case against the 1998 Human Rights Act / edited by Frederick Cowell. - xiii, 222 pages

Defining and understanding the case against the Human Rights Act / Frederick Cowell -- The Magna Carta's tainted legacy : historic justifications for a British Bill of Rights and the case against the Human Rights Act / Colin Murray -- England's terror of the French revolution : the historical roots of resistance to the rights of man and the case against the Human Rights Act / Bill Bowring -- An ingenious failure? The Human Rights Act and parliamentary sovereignty / Stephen J. Dimelow -- Dialogue or dictat? The nature of the interaction between national courts and the European Court of Human Rights and how it influences criticism of the Human Rights Act / Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou -- Taking sovereignty seriously / Adam Tucker -- Terrorist threats, antiterrorism, and the case against the Human Rights Act / Conor Gearty -- Deportation and the Human Rights Act 1998 : debunking the myths / Siobhan Lloyd --Welfare, anti-austerity, and gender : new territory and new sources of hostility for the Human Rights Act / Laura Lammasniemi -- Moving away from common sense : the impact of the juridification of human rights / Nicolas Kang-Riou -- "Why should criminals have human rights? " the underserving rights holder and the case against the Human Rights Act / Frederick Cowell -- The Human Rights Act and the failure of to construct a "rights culture" in the UK / Trudy Morgan.

ISBN: 9781138223820 9781315310053

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Great Britain. Human Rights Act 1998.
European Court of Human Rights

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Human rights--Great Britain.
Human rights--Europe.

Dewey Class. No.: 342.85041