Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law

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In Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law, leading public law scholars reflect on the nature and limits of the judicial role and its implications for human rights protection and democracy. The starting point for this reflection is Lord Sumption's lecture, 'The Limits of the Law', which grounds a wide-ranging discussion of questions including the scope and legitimacy of judicial law-making, the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights, and the continuing significance and legitimacy, or otherwise, of the European Court of Human Rights. Lord Sumption ends the volume with a substantial commentary on the responses to his lecture.

NW Barber is a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; Richard Ekins is a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford; and Paul Yowell is a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

...this is a stimulating and provocative book. The informed and penetrating discussion of the issues will be of great interest to lawyers generally, particularly to those concerned with public law. -- Hon Sir Anthony Mason * Hong Kong Law Journal * Distinguished public lawyers, mostly from Oxford, reflect on Lord Sumption's ideas. The resulting volume is a rich feast of disagreements... [The] commentary advances the human rights debate at a time when the continuation of the 1998 constitutional settlement is no longer assured. -- Jonathan Morgan * Law Quarterly Review *