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Informationen zum Autor Frederick Cowell is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London Klappentext Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act has come in for a wide variety of criticism. More recently, this criticism escalated as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book examines the main arguments against the HRA and the issues which have led to public hostility against the protection of human rights. Zusammenfassung Since its inception in 1998 the Human Rights Act has come in for a wide variety of criticism. More recently, this criticism escalated as politicians have seriously considered proposals for its abolition. This book examines the main arguments against the HRA and the issues which have led to public hostility against the protection of human rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Defining and understanding the case against the Human Rights Act FREDERICK COWELL PART I: The Historical Roots of the case against the Human Rights Act 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 PART II: Sovereignty 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 PART III: Controversial Claimants under the Human Rights Act Terrorist threats, Anti-Terrorism and the case against the Human Rights Act CONOR GEARTY Deportation and the Human Rights Act: Debunking the Myths SIOBHAN LLOYD Welfare, Anti-austerity and Gender: New territory and new sources of hostility for the Human Rights Act LAURA LAMMASNIEMI PART IV: The structural basis of hostility to the Human Rights Act 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 failure of the Human Rights Act to construct a 'rights culture' in the UK TRUDY MORGAN ...
