Adam Gearey, Wayne Morrison, Robert Jago

The Politics of the Common Law (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives, Rights, Processes, Institutions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers an introduction to the English legal system that places the law in its contemporary context. Unlike other conventional accounts, it presents a coherent argument, organised around the central claim that modern law must be understood as an articulation of human rights and due process values.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135097875
• Artikelnr.: 39054741

Autorenporträt

Dr. Adam Gearey is a reader in law, Birkbeck College, University of London. He has been a visiting professor in the Faculty of Law at Makerere University, Uganda; the University of Pretoria, South Africa and the University of Peace, Costa Rica. He has also been a visiting fellow in the Center for Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Wayne Morrison LLD, PhD, LLM, LLB, (Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand) is Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London and former Director of the University of London's International Programmes for Law

Robert Jago MPhil. (cantab.) is a Senior Lecturer and Deputy Head of the School of Law at the University of Surrey. He is also a regular visitor to HKU SPACE where he teaches Public Law.

Inhaltsangabe

Authors' acknowledgements
Publisher's acknowledgements
1. Introduction Part I - The politics of the Common Law: perspectives
rights
processes
Institutions
2. Introduction Part II - Procedural Fairness
the Rule of Law and Due Process
3. 'As a system...the common law is a thing merely imaginary'
4. Recording law's experience: features of the 'case'
5. The postcolonial
the visible and the invisible: the normal and the exceptional
6. Institutionalizing Judicial Decision Making: Public Reason and the Doctrine of Precedent
7. What We Talk About When We Talk About Common Law: The Practice of Precedent
8. The Mirror and the Dialogue: The Common Law
Strasbourg and Human Rights
9. The judicial practice of statutory interpretation
10. The Politics of the Judiciary Revisited: rights
democracy
law
11. Judges and Democracy
12. The Integrity of the Court: Judgment and the Prohibition on Bias
13. The Value of Participation: The Rights of the Defence
Equality of Arms and Access to Justice
14. Open Justice
Closed Procedures and Torture Evidence
15. Imagining Civil Justice
16. Imagining Criminal Justice
17. Conclusion