Human Rights and the Private Sphere

Dawn Oliver is Professor of Constitutional Law at University College London. She is particularly interested in constitutional reform, the UK Human Rights Act 1998, and the public law/private law divide. She recently published Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom (OUP, 2003) and is co-editor of The Changing Constitution (OUP, 6th edn 2007). In 2005 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.Jörg Fedtke is Reader in Laws at University College London, where he is Director of the Institute of Global Law. He also holds a post as Visiting Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches European Union and comparative constitutional law. In 2005 he was invited by the United Nations to act as an external advisor to the constitutional negotiations in Iraq. His research interests are in constitutional law, administrative law, comparative methodology and tort law.

• Part 1: Introduction General Introduction 1. Common Lines of Enquiry Part 2: Jurisdiction-based Chapters 2. European Court of Human Rights 3. European Union 4. Denmark 5. France 6. Germany 7. Greece 8. India 9. Ireland 10. Israel 11. Italy 12. South Africa 13. Spain 14. United Kingdom 15. USA and Canada 14. Hypothetical Part 3 Conclusions 15. Comparative Analysis 16. Conclusions