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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Additional Authors

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

Description

xiv, 231 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law, leading public law scholars reflect on the nature and limits of the judicial role, and its implications for human rights protection and democracy. The starting point for this reflection is Lord Sumption's lecture, 'The Limits of the Law', and, spurred on by this, the contributors discuss questions including the scope and legitimacy of judicial law-making, the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the continuing significance and legitimacy, or otherwise, of the European Court of Human Rights. Lord Sumption ends the volume with a substantial chapter engaging with the responses to his lecture."--

Series Statement

Hart studies in constitutional law ; volume 5

Uniform Title

Hart studies in constitutional law ; volume 5.

Subject

• Sumption, Jonathan. > Congresses
• Sumption, Jonathan 1948-
• European Court of Human Rights > Congresses
• European Court of Human Rights
• Europäischer Gerichtshof für Menschenrechte
• Limits of the law (Sumption, Jonathan)
• Judge-made law > Congresses
• Judicial power > Congresses
• Political questions and judicial power > Congresses
• Droit créé par le juge > Congrès
• Pouvoir judiciaire > Congrès
• Politique et pouvoir judiciaire > Congrès
• Judge-made law
• Judicial power
• Political questions and judicial power
• Rechtsprechung
• European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (Rome, 4 November 1950)
• European Court of Human Rights
• Judicial power
• Judicial activism
• Interpretation
• Constitutionalism
• Human rights

Genre/Form

• proceedings (reports)
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

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 / Nick 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 ECHR / 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.

ISBN

• 9781849466943
• 1849466947
• 9781509902163 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781509902170 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2015049489
• 99967689338

OCLC

• ocn902659666
• 902659666
• SCSB-1845715

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library