Human Rights Brought Home: Socio-Legal Perspectives of Human Rights in the National Context

What practical impact does the incorporation of international human rights standards into domestic law have? This collection of essays explores human rights in domestic legal systems. The enactment of the Human Rights Act in 1998, ushering the European Convention on Human Rights fully into UK law, represented a landmark in the UK constitutional order. Other European states similarly have elevated the status of human rights in their domestic legal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1841133884
• ISBN13: 9781841133881
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Hart Publishing
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"