On Fantasy Island. Britain, Europe, And Human Rights

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Uk
Publisher Year: 2016
Edition: First Edition

Description: 240 pages. Ex-Library. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In the 2015 UK General Election, the Conservative party pledged to reset the UKs relations with Europe, holding an in-out referendum on membership of the European Union and repealing the Human Rights Act, to be replaced with a UK Bill of Rights. With the decision now taken to leave the EU, the future of the Human Rights Act and the UKs relations to the European Convention on Human Rights remains uncertain.Conor Gearty, one of the countrys leading experts on human rights, here dissects the myths and fantasies that drive English exceptionalism over Europe, and shape the case for repealing the Human Rights Act. He presents a passionate case for keeping the existing legal framework for protecting human rights and our relationship with the European Convention. Analysing the reform agenda from the perspective of British law, history, politics, and culture, he lays bare the misunderstandings of the human rights system that have driven the debate so far.Structured in three parts, the book first exposes the myths that drive the anti-Human Rights Act argument. Second, Gearty outlines how the Act operates in practice and what its impact really is on the ground. Third, he looks to the future and the kind of Britain we want to live in, and how, for all its modesty, the survival or otherwise of the Human Rights Act will play a pivotal part in that future.

ISBN: 9780198787631