Research Catalog

Title

Lord Sumption and the limits of the law / edited by NW Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Barber, N. W. (Nicholas William)
• Ekins, Richard
• Yowell, Paul, 1969-
• Sumption, Jonathan.

Description

xiv, 231 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

[Hart studies in constitutional law ; volume 5]

Uniform Title

Hart studies in constitutional law ; volume 5.

Subject

• Sumption, Jonathan. > Congresses
• European Court of Human Rights > Congresses
• Judge-made law > Congresses
• Judicial power > Congresses
• Political questions and judicial power > Congresses

Note

• "This volume arises out of a conference held in the University of Oxford in October 2014."
• Includes full text of lecture "The limits of the law", originally presented as the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 20, 2013.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword : beyond the limits / Timothy Endicott -- Introduction / NW Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell -- The limits of law / Lord Sumption -- Sumption's assumptions / Martin Loughlin -- Living trees or deadwood : the interpretive challenge of the European Convention on Human Rights / Sandra Fredman -- Judges, interpretation and self-government / Lord Hoffmann -- Judicial law-making and the 'living' instrumentalisation of the ECHR / John Finnis -- The role of courts in the joint enterprise of governing / Aileen Kavanagh -- Three wrong turns in Lord Sumption's conception of law and democracy / Jeff King -- The human rights act and "coordinate construction" : towards a "parliament square" axis for human rights? / Carol Harlow -- Limits of law : reflections from private and public law / Paul Craig -- The limits of Lord Sumption: limited legal constitutionalism and the political form of the ECHR / Richard Bellamy -- A response / Lord Sumption.

Call Number

JFE 17-764

ISBN

• 9781849466943
• 1849466947

LCCN

2015049489

OCLC

902659666

Title

Lord Sumption and the limits of the law / edited by NW Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Hart studies in constitutional law ; volume 5]

Hart studies in constitutional law ; volume 5.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Barber, N. W. (Nicholas William), editor.

Ekins, Richard, editor.

Yowell, Paul, 1969- editor.

Sumption, Jonathan.

Other Form:

Online version: Lord Sumption and the Limits of the law. Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : Hart Publishing Ltd, 2016 9781509902170 (DLC) 2015049635

Research Call Number

JFE 17-764