Human Rights Brought Home

Socio-Legal Perspectives of Human Rights in the National Context

Inbunden, Engelska, 2004

AvSimon Halliday,Patrick Schmidt,Colin Harvey

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What practical impact does the incorporation of international human rights standards into domestic law have? This collection of essays explores human rights in domestic legal systems. The enactment of the Human Rights Act in 1998, ushering the European Convention on Human Rights fully into UK law, represented a landmark in the UK constitutional order. Other European states similarly have elevated the status of human rights in their domestic legal systems. However, whilst much has been written about doctrinal legal developments, little is yet known about the empirical effects of bringing rights home. This collection of essays, written by a range of distinguished socio-legal scholars, seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge. The essays, presenting new empirical research, begin their enquiry where many studies in human rights finish. The contributors do not stop at the recognition of international law and norms by states, but penetrate the internal workings of domestic legal systems to see the law in action - - as it is developed, contested, manipulated, or even ignored by actors such as judges, lawyers, civil servants, interest groups, and others.This distinctly socio-legal approach offers a unique contribution to the literature on human rights, exploring human rights law-in-action in developed countries. In doing so, it demonstrates the importance of looking beyond grand generalities and the hopes of international human rights law in order to understand the impact of the global human rights movement.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2004-08-12
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt592 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHuman Rights Law in Perspective
Antal sidor292
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781841133881

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1. Introduction: Socio-Legal Perspectives on Human Rights in the National ContextPatrick Schmidt and Simon Halliday2. Implementing Human RightsDenis Galligan and Deborah Sandler3. France, the UK, and the ‘Boomerang’ of the Internationalisation of Human Rights (1945–2000)Mikael Rask Madsen4. ‘We’ve Had To Raise Our Game’: Liberty’s Litigation Strategy Under The Human Rights Act 1998Richard J Maiman5. Implementing the Human Rights Act into the Courts in England and Wales: Culture Shift or Damp Squib?John Raine and Clive Walker6. The Effectiveness of National Human Rights InstitutionsStephen Livingstone and Rachel Murray7. When Do Rights Matter? A Case Study of the Right to Equal Treatment in SwedenReza Banakar8. Human Rights and French Criminal Justice: Opening the Door to Pre-Trial Defence RightsJacqueline Hodgson9. The Millennium Blip: The Human Rights Act 1998 and Local GovernmentLuke Clements and Rachel Morris10. Empowering Children? Legal Understandings and Experiences of Rights in the Scottish Children’s Hearings SystemAnne Griffiths and Randy Frances Kandel

...the primary point of this book is...to show the utility of socio-legal scholarship in the areas of human rights. On this score the book succeeds and it must be hoped that the book will encourage human rights and socio-legal scholars to collaborate... Robert Cryer, University of Nottingham Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 5, No. 1 2005 ...excellent chapters by Reza Banakar and Jacqueline Hodgson...the quality of the individual chapters...[ensures] that the purpose of the volume...is...fulfilled. Emma McClean, University of Hull European Public Law, Vol 11, Issue 3 2005 ...an exemplary piece of socio-legal research...measured and thoughtful conclusions...a valuable contribution to the scholarship of human rights, in which it fills a significant gap. John O'Dowd, University College Dublin Public Law 2005 ...a welcome addition to the growing literature on the interplay between international and domestic rights... This book provides a fine regional case study of rights internalization. Christopher Waters, School of Law, University of Reading Law and Politics Book Review June 2005