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Human Rights Brought Home - Socio-Legal Perspectives of Human Rights in the National Context (Hardcover)
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Human Rights Brought Home - Socio-Legal Perspectives of Human Rights in the National Context (Hardcover)
Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective
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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 systems.
However, whilst much has been written about doctrinal legal
developments, little is yet known about the empirical effects of
bringing rights home. This collection of essays, written by a range
of distinguished socio-legal scholars, seeks to fill this gap in
our knowledge. The essays, presenting new empirical research, begin
their enquiry where many studies in human rights finish. The
contributors do not stop at the recognition of international law
and norms by states, but penetrate the internal workings of
domestic legal systems to see the law in action - - as it is
developed, contested, manipulated, or even ignored by actors such
as judges, lawyers, civil servants, interest groups, and others.
This distinctly socio-legal approach offers a unique contribution
to the literature on human rights, exploring human rights
law-in-action in developed countries. In doing so, it demonstrates
the importance of looking beyond grand generalities and the hopes
of international human rights law in order to understand the impact
of the global human rights movement.
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