Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights

Katja S Ziegler is Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law at the University of Leicester.Peter M Huber is Justice of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany and Professor of Law at Fakultät für Rechtswissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

• 1. Introduction: Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights – Perspectives from Germany and the UK Katja S Ziegler and Peter M HuberPart One Constitutionalisation by Human Rights in Specific Areas of Law 2. Human Rights and Criminal Law: An Ambivalent Relationship – Perspectives of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht and the European Court of Human Rights Frank Zimmermann 3. Eroding the Structure of the Convention? The Public Interest in Prosecutions for Serious Crime 31Andrew Ashworth4. The 'Constitutionalisation' of Labour Law: Possibilities and Problems ACL Davies 5. The Human Rights Act 1998, Horizontality and the Constitutionalisation of Private Law Alison L Young 6. Constitutionalisation of the Freedom of Contract in European Union Law Carsten Herresthal 7. Anti-discrimination Legislation – A Paradigm Shift in the Protection of Human Rights? Peter M Huber 8. The Human Rights Act 1998 and the Development of Administrative Law in the United Kingdom Anthony Bradley Part Two Balancing Human Rights 9. Human Rights Protection in Multipolar Legal Relationships Sophie-Charlotte Lenski 10. Empirical Research in Rights-based Judicial Review of Legislation Paul Yowell Part Three Absolute Rights: The Example of Human Dignity11. 'Human Dignity Shall Be Inviolable' – Dealing with a Constitutional Taboo Sebastian Unger 12. The National Identity of the Member States in Europe and the Jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Starting from Omega Jan Kalbheim Part Four Human Rights and Anti-terrorism Measures13. Preventive Information Search by the Police as an Anti-terrorism Measure – The German Perspective Foroud Shirvani 14. Terrorism, Secrecy and Human Rights Patrick Birkinshaw

The rich analyses presented in this collection are an important addition to the literature on comparative and multi-level constitutionalism of rights.