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All aspire to liberty and security in their lives but few people truly enjoy them. This book explains why this is so. In what Conor Gearty calls our 'neo-democratic' world, the proclamation of universal liberty and security is mocked by facts on the ground: the vast inequalities in supposedly free societies, the authoritarian regimes with regular elections, and the terrible socio-economic deprivation camouflaged by cynically proclaimed commitments to human rights. Gearty's book offers an explanation of how this has come about, providing also a criticism of the present age wh.

In this set of three essays, originally presented as the 2005 Hamlyn Lectures, Conor Gearty considers whether human rights can survive the challenges of the war on terror, the revival of political religion, and the steady erosion of the world's natural resources. He also looks deeper than this to consider the fundamental question: How can we tell what human rights are? In his first essay, Gearty asks how the idea of human rights needs to be made to work in our age of relativism, uncertainty and anxiety. In the second, he assesses how the idea of human rights has coped with its incorporation in legal form in the UK Human Rights Act, arguing that the record is much better and more democratic than many human rights enthusiasts allow. In his final essay, Gearty confronts the challenges that may destroy the language of human rights for the generations that follow us

This work takes a fresh look at the place of the Human Rights Act in Britain's constitutional order. It locates the measure in its political and historical context and analyses the case law from the perspective not only of principle but also of practical experience.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENT -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. CIVIL LIBERTIES IN THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE: A CRITICAL SURVEY -- 2. THE UNITED KINGDOM -- 3. THE NETHERLANDS -- 4. GERMANY -- 5. IRELAND -- 6. SWEDEN -- 7. FRANCE -- 8. ITALY -- 9. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE EUROPEAN LEGAL ORDER -- TABLE OF CASES -- INDEX -- International Studies in Human Rights.

AS GENERAL SECRETARY OF "LIBERTY," ANDREW PUDDEPHATT'S RECORD AS A DEFENDER OF CIVIL LIBERTIES WAS BEYOND DISPUTE. TOWARDS THE END OF HIS TENURE THERE, "LIBERTY" BECAME PREOCCUPIED WITH A NEW CAMPAIGN TO SECURE A BILL OF RIGHTS FOR BRITAIN. THE ORGANIZAION MADE HUMAN RIGHTS AND CAMPAIGNING FOR ITS BILL OF RIGHTS CENTRAL TO ITS CONTEMPORARY AGENDA. PUDDEPHATT HAS NOW BEEN BROUGHT IN TO INFUSE THE CHARTER 88 MOVEMENT WITH FRESH ENERGY. THIS ARTICLE CRITIQUES A RECENT ARTICLE WRITTEN BY PUDDEPHATT, "THE CASE FOR A BILL OF RIGHTS."

This program is about a paradox at the heart of American democracy. We take it for granted that elected officials, like President Bush and members of Congress, run America. In fact, many of the country's most important decisions are taken by nine unelected lawyers accountable to no one. It is a paradox which is increasingly under scrutiny as more and more Americans are coming to question the power of their Supreme Court.

The issue is no longer whether climate change is happening; it is rather what we should now be doing about it. Drawing together key thinkers and policy experts, this unique volume - also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment - engages with the human dimensions of climate change, offering a timely intervention into contemporary debates about the challenging relationship between law and society in a time of climate crisis. The result is an imaginative, well-informed and provocative collection of contemporary engagements with the greatest challenge of the age, concerned not only to understand the current crisis but to offer perspectives on how it can be addressed. At the heart of this volume is the conviction that change is urgent, possible and morally imperative.

Does the apparent victory, universality and ubiquity of the idea of rights indicate that such rights have transcended all conflicts of interests and moved beyond the presumption that it is the clash of ideas that drives culture? Or has the rhetorical triumph of rights not been replicated in reality? The contributors to this book answer these questions in the context of an increasing wealth gap between the metropolitan elites and the rest, a chasm in income and chances between the rich and the poor, and walls which divide the comfortable middle classes from the 'underclass'. Why do these inequalities persist in our supposed human rights-abiding societies? In seeking to address the foundations, genealogies, meaning and impact of rights, this book captures some of the energy, breadth, power and paradoxes that make deployment of the language of human rights such an essential but changeable part of so many of our contemporary discourses