Bonfire of the Liberties

New Labour, Human Rights, and the Rule of Law
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-958478-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 512 g

This provocative book confronts the corrosion of civil liberties under successive New Labour governments since 1997. It argues that the last decade has seen a wholesale failure of constitutional principle and exposed the futility of depending on legal rights to restrict the power of executive government. It considers the steps necessary to prevent the continued decline of political standards, arguing that only through rebalancing political power can civil liberties be adequately
protected.

Relying on extensive new research of inaccessible sources, the book examines the major battlegrounds over civil liberties under New Labour, including the growth and abuse of police power, state surveillance and counter-terrorist measures. It unfolds a compelling narrative of the major battles fought before Parliament and in the courts, and attacks the failure of the political and legal systems to offer protection to those suffering abuses of their civil liberty at the hands of an aggressive Executive. In doing so, it offers a definitive account of the struggle for civil liberty in modern Britain, and a controversial argument for the reforms necessary to contain executive power.

Zielgruppe

Lawyers, political scientists, academics, policy makers, students and general readers interested in civil liberties, human rights and public law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ewing, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1: The Growth of Police Powers
2: Surveillance and the Right to Privacy
3: Freedom of Assembly and the Right of Public Protest
4: Free Speech and the National Security State
5: A Permanent Emergency and the Eclipse of Human Rights
6: From Detention - to Control Orders - to Rendition
7: Conclusion - Political Power not Legal Rights

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Ewing, Professor of Public Law at King's College London.