The legal protection of human rights: sceptical essays

List of Contributors

Table of Cases

Table of Treaties and Legislation

1. Introduction / Tom Campbell / K. D. Ewing / Adam Tomkins

Part I. Failures of Juridification

2. Parliament, Human Rights, and Countes-Terrorism / Adam Tomkins

3. Governing Like Judges? / Janet L. Hiebert

4. Human Rights at the Interface of State and Sub-state: The Case of Scotland / Chris Himsworth

5. Inter-institutional 'Rigths Dialogue' under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act / Andrew Geddis

6. Statutory Bills of Rights: You Read Words In, You Read Words Out, Yout Take Parliament's Clear Intention and You Shake it All About-Doin' the Sankey Hanky Panky / James Allan

7. Constitutionalism, the Rule of Law, and the Cold War / Joan Mahoney

8. The Cold War, Civil Liberties, and the House of Lords / K. D. Ewing

9. Lessons from the past? Northern Ireland, Terrorism Now and Then, and the Human Rights Act / Aileen McColgan

10. Constitutional Law Meets Comparative Politics: Socio-economic Rights and Political Realities / Ran Hirschl / Evan Rosevear

11. Business Rights as Human Rights / Danny Nicol

12. Constitutionalizing Labour Rights in Europe / Judy Fudge

13. Freedom, Security, and Justice in the European Court of Justice: The Ambiguous Nature of Judicial Review / Sionaidh Douglas-Scott

Part II. Politicizing Human Rights

14. The Political Institutions of Rights-Protection / Mark Tushnet

15. Reclaiming the Political Protection of Rights: A Defence of Australian Party Politics / Joo-Cheong Tham

16. Message from the Front Line: Parliamentarians' Perspectives on Rights Protection / Carolyn Evans / Simon Evans

17. Human Rights and the Global South / Gavin W. Anderson

18. Judicial Constitutional Review as a Last Resort / Kaarlo Tuori

19. Judges without a Court-Judicial Preview in Sweden / Thomas Bull

20. Rights and the Citation of Foreign Law / Jeremy Waldron

21. Amateur Operatics: The Realization of Parliamentary Protection of Civil Liberties / Jonathan Morgan

22. Parliamentary Review with a Democratic Charter of Rights / Tom Campbell

23. Beyond the Human Rights Act / Conor Gearty

Index