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Zusatztext As indicated in the introduction, The United Kingdomâs Statutory Bill of Rights: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives 'make[s] a significant contribution to assessing the lasting impact of the United Kingdomâs human rights project, and towards shaping the nature of the debates yet to come'. Informationen zum Autor Roger Masterman is Reader in Law at Durham Law School and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre. Ian Leigh is Professor of Law at Durham University. He is a member of the Durham Human Rights Centre and the Durham Global Security Institute. He has taught at several UK universities and held visiting appointments at the universities of Otago, Florida, Virginia, Melbourne and at Osgoode Hall Law School. Klappentext This book examines the effects of the Human Rights Act on the constitutional landscape, its effect on constitutional doctrine, and the reasoning used by judges in giving it effect. The authors study the Act's relationship with other bills of rights and how the Human Rights Act experience can inform the debate over a UK Bill of Rights. Zusammenfassung This book examines the effects of the Human Rights Act on the constitutional landscape, its effect on constitutional doctrine, and the reasoning used by judges in giving it effect. The authors study the Act's relationship with other bills of rights and how the Human Rights Act experience can inform the debate over a UK Bill of Rights. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Roger Masterman and Ian Leigh: The United Kingdom's Human Rights Project in Constitutional and Comparative Perspective Part I-The Human Rights Act in Constitutional Perspective 2: Gavin Phillipson: The Human Rights Act, Dialogue and Constitutional Principles 3: C.R.G. Murray: The Continuation of Politics, by other means: Judicial Dialogue under the Human Rights Act 1998 4: Aidan O'Neill QC: Back to the Future?: Judges, Politicians and the Constitution in the New Scotland Part II-Domestic Protections within a European Framework 5: Roger Masterman: Deconstructing the Mirror Principle 6: Merris Amos: From monologue to dialogue-the relationship between UK courts and the European Court of Human Rights Part III-A Permanent Revolution in Legal Reasoning? 7: Sir Jack Beatson: Human Rights and Judicial Technique 8: Sir Rabinder Singh: The Impact of the Human Rights Act on Advocacy Part IV-The Human Rights Act on the International Plane 9: Sir Anthony Mason: Human Rights and Legislative Supremacy 10: Simon Evans and Julia Watson: Australian Bills of Rights and the "New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism" 11: Petra Butler: Cross fertilisation of constitutional ideas: The Relationship between the Human Rights Act 1998 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 Part V-Amendment, Repeal or a Bill of Rights for the UK? 12: Alice Donald: A Bill of Rights for the UK? Lessons from Overseas 13: Helen Fenwick: Conservative Anti-HRA Rhetoric, the Bill of Rights "Solution" and the role of the Bill of Rights Commission ...
