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Category Archive: Human rights

Alison L. Young: Whose Convention Rights are they anyway?

It is probably an under-statement to say that the Human Rights Act 1998 is not Teresa May’s favourite […]

Constitutional Law Group February 12, 2012 Human rights, Judiciary

Paul Kildea: Constitutional Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: The ‘what’ and ‘how’ of reform

Amending the text of the Australian Constitution has been described as a ‘labour of Hercules’. It has been […]

Constitutional Law Group January 30, 2012 Australia, Constitutional reform, Human rights

Sophie Duxson and Greg Weeks: A Constitutional crisis or just the work of a sovereign Parliament?: The case of Hungary

On 1 January 2012, a new Constitution (or Fundamental Law) took effect in the Central European state of […]

Constitutional Law Group January 17, 2012 Australia, Human rights, Judiciary

Conor Gearty: Al-Khawaja and Tahery v United Kingdom

Surprise – or no surprise at all? The European Court of Human Rights has decided not to precipitate […]

Constitutional Law Group January 9, 2012 Human rights, Judiciary

Derek O’Brien and Se-shauna Wheatle: The Commonwealth Caribbean and the Uses and Abuses of Comparative Constitutional Law

The practice of judges engaging in a transnational judicial conversation about constitutional rights, by referring to the judgments […]

Constitutional Law Group November 22, 2011 Caribbean, Comparative law, Constitutional reform, Human rights

Christine Bell: Bills of Rights and Devolution: From the Universal to the Particular.

‘To produce one Bill of rights may be regarded as a misfortune.  To produce eight, looks like carelessness’. […]

Constitutional Law Group November 15, 2011 Constitutional reform, Devolution, Human rights, Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK Parliament, Wales

Paul Bernal: To block or not to block is not the question…

On the 26th October, the subject of website blocking was in the news in two apparently very different […]

Constitutional Law Group November 6, 2011 Human rights, Judiciary

Christopher McCrudden: Slavery and the constitutional role of judges

How far should judges “update” our legal concepts, or should they root their interpretation in the historical understanding […]

Constitutional Law Group November 2, 2011 Human rights, International law, UK Parliament

Helen Fenwick: The Conservative anti-ECHR stance and a British Bill of Rights: rhetoric and reality.

Conservative policy on the Human Rights Act: the role of the Bill of Rights’ Commission and the aim […]

Constitutional Law Group November 1, 2011 Human rights, Judiciary

Bradley W. Miller: Assisted Suicide and Judicial Review

What considerations can justify a court overturning a recent constitutional precedent?  This constitutional perennial is once again in […]

Constitutional Law Group October 22, 2011 Canada, Comparative law, Human rights

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