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Title The future of human rights in the UK / edited by Claire-Michelle Smyth and Richard Lang.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (x, 317 pages)
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Note This edited collection comprises a selection of the papers presented in November 2016 at the University of Brighton one-day conference entitled "The Future of Human Rights in the UK."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction : the future of human rights / Fiona De Londras / The Human Rights Act in a culture of control / Alan Greene -- Images of citizenship at points of rupture between the citizen and the state: cancellation of citizenship in France and the UK / Rachel Pougnet -- The future of the right to education in the UK : the challenge of anti-radicalisation measures / David Barrett -- Human rights and the right of silence / Hannah Quirk -- Brexit and human rights : an opportunity? / Michelle Coleman -- The business of asylum justice and the future of human rights / Jo Wilding -- Broadening the rights of stakeholders through a restorative justice approach to crime : an Irish perspective / Darren McStravick -- The Trade Union Act 2016 and balloting for industrial action : is the further restriction on the "right to strike" in the United Kingdom a flagrant violation of European convention standards and a step too far for the courts? / Charles Barrow -- Social and economic rights in a post-neoliberal society / Claire-Michelle Smyth -- The future of economic and social rights in the UK : challenges, but also opportunities / Koldo Casla -- Parental responsibility, vulnerable parents and school attendance / Niall Williams -- The United Kingdom : navigating the choppy waters of surrogacy / Mary O'Connor -- A uniquely British debate? : the relative invisibility of the European Convention in the European press / Lieve Gies -- What will become of EU laws on the UK statute book after Brexit? : victims' rights as a case-study / Richard Lang.
Summary In November 2016 the University of Brighton hosted a one day conference entitled "The Future of Human Rights in the UK". Legal academics and practitioners from across the UK and Ireland attended to discuss the various topical issues that arise under the title of the conference. Papers were presented on terrorism and counter-terrorism, the role of the European Court of Human Rights, surrogacy and parental rights, union rights, social and economic rights and Brexit; to name but a few. This edited collection comprises a selection of the papers presented. It is a thought-provoking collection desig.
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Subject Human rights -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
Human rights.
Great Britain.
Civil rights -- Great Britain -- Congresses.
Civil rights.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Subject Human rights.
Added Author Smyth, Claire-Michelle, editor, author.
Lang, Richard (Richard A.), editor, author.
ISBN 9781527505148 (electronic book)
1527505146 (electronic book)
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9781443895132