Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act

Cover
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
	1 Defining and understanding the case against the Human Rights Act
Part I The historical roots of the case against the Human Rights Act
	2 The Magna Carta’s tainted legacy: historic justifications for a British Bill of Rights and the case against the Human Rights Act
	3 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
Part II Sovereignty
	4 An ingenious failure? The Human Rights Act 1998 and parliamentary sovereignty
	5 Dialogue or diktat? 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
	6 Taking sovereignty seriously
Part III Controversial claimants under the Human Rights Act
	7 Terrorist threats, antiterrorism and the case against the Human Rights Act
	8 Deportation and the Human Rights Act 1998: debunking the myths
	9 Welfare, anti-austerity and gender: new territory and new sources of hostility for the Human Rights Act
Part IV The structural basis of hostility to the Human Rights Act
	10 Moving away from common sense: the impact of the juridification of human rights
	11 ‘Why should criminals have human rights?’ The underserving rights holder and the case against the Human Rights Act
	12 The Human Rights Act and the failure to construct a ‘rights culture’ in the UK
Index