Human Rights Law in the UK

Themes and Principles

Stephanie Palmer author Kirsty Hughes author Stevie Martin author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:30th Oct '25

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Offers rich analysis of UK and European human rights law, human rights theory, and academic scholarship.

This book offers a unique and detailed analysis of human rights law from the perspective of both domestic UK law and ECHR law. It will be of invaluable use for undergraduate and graduate students studying and researching human rights law. It will also be of significant interest to human rights practitioners and judges.This book offers a rich analysis of many aspects of human rights law in the UK and the European legal framework while also including critiques of human rights and the varying conceptions of rights. This book has the advantage of engaging with both Strasbourg caselaw, domestic jurisprudence and the academic scholarship. The issues covered include the right to life, the prohibition of torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, abortion and assisted dying, modern slavery and human trafficking, terrorism, immigration, privacy, hate speech, protest, religion, equality and non-discrimination.

'The authors bring the subject to life in a rich, multifaceted way, and their expertise and experience make the book a reliable, thought-provoking guide. Readers will find illumination and stimulating new ideas on every page, as I have.' David Feldman, KC, FBA, FRSA
'This is the right book, at the right time, in the right place with the right focus. The quality of the democracies which govern us, and the solidity of the rule of law which necessarily underpins effective democracies, can be assessed via the degree of respect for human rights in a given jurisdiction. By focusing on substantive topics instead of individual Convention rights, and via the choice of those topics, the authors illustrate this point extremely well. It is a point too often lost in modern debates about human rights but one which is becoming startlingly real (in courts across the globe) in the turbulent times in which we are living.' Síofra O'Leary, former President of the European Court of Human Rights
'Comprehensive, rigorous and deeply insightful, this book's illuminating examination of critical issues within human rights law in the UK is urgently needed and masterfully executed. It will be a vital resource for students, scholars and practitioners of human rights law in the UK and beyond.' Natasa Mavronicola
'This book is a must for any human rights lawyer, academic or activist. The authors have successfully shown that the old-fashioned distinction between monist and dualist constitutional orders has become irrelevant, and domestic jurisdictions only have to gain when they leave the misleading comfort of a narrow-minded, parochial understanding of human rights law and embrace an open-minded, multifaceted, cosmopolitan interpretation of that law.'  Paulo Pinto de Albuquerque, former Judge of the European Court of Human Rights
'A vital, necessary, meticulous and magisterially accessible account of human rights law in Britain, more important than ever – a first point of reference in times of uncertainty and threat to the basic rights of all individuals and groups.' Phillipe Sands, KC, FBA, FRSL

ISBN: 9781316515006

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1934g

952 pages