Human Rights: Changing the Culture (Journal of Law and Society Special Issues) - Softcover

 
9780631217558: Human Rights: Changing the Culture (Journal of Law and Society Special Issues)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 063121755X ISBN 13: 9780631217558
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, 1999

Synopsis

The Human Rights Act 1998 will come into force in the year 2000. This volume explores the significance of this event.

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About the Author

Luke Clements is a Senior Research Fellow at Cardiff Law School.

From the Back Cover

The Human Rights Act 1998 will come into force in the year 2000. This volume explores the significance of this event. How has it come about? What has been the experience of other countries receiving human rights instruments into a developed Western system of law? What will the effect be on the way in which the legal profession thinks about itself? How does this transform the thinking about rights? Does a human rights instrument distort democratic politics?

From the Inside Flap

The Human Rights Act 1998 will come into force in the year 2000. This volume explores the significance of this event. How has it come about? What has been the experience of other countries receiving human rights instruments into a developed Western system of law? What will the effect be on the way in which the legal profession thinks about itself? How does this transform the thinking about rights? Does a human rights instrument distort democratic politics?

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
063121755X
ISBN 13 
9780631217558
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
134
Editor
Clements Luke