Critically Examining the Case Against the 1998 Human Rights Act

Frederick Cowell is a Lecturer in Law at the School of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London

Introduction Defining and understanding the case against the Human Rights Act FREDERICK COWELL PART I: The Historical Roots of the case against the Human Rights Act The Magna Cartas Tainted Legacy: Historic Justifications for a British Bill of Rights and the case against the Human Rights Act COLIN MURRAY Englands terror of the French Revolution: the historical roots of resistance to the rights of man and the case against the Human Rights Act BILL BOWRING PART II: Sovereignty An Ingenious Failure? The Human Rights Act and Parliamentary Sovereignty STEPHEN J. DIMELOW Dialogue or Dictat?: 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 KANSTANTSIN DZEHTSIAROU Taking Sovereignty Seriously ADAM TUCKER PART III: Controversial Claimants under the Human Rights Act Terrorist threats, Anti-Terrorism and the case against the Human Rights Act CONOR GEARTY Deportation and the Human Rights Act: Debunking the Myths SIOBHAN LLOYD Welfare, Anti-austerity and Gender: New territory and new sources of hostility for the Human Rights Act LAURA LAMMASNIEMI PART IV: The structural basis of hostility to the Human Rights Act Moving away from common sense: the impact of the juridification of human rights NICOLAS KANG-RIOU Why should criminals have human rights?: The underserving rights holder and the case against the Human Rights Act FREDERICK COWELL The failure of the Human Rights Act to construct a rights culture in the UK TRUDY MORGAN