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Can Human Rights Deliver Real Equality?

This is the text of my 35th anniversary lecture for the Legal Action Group.

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Centre for the Study of Human Rights
Human Rights: The Challenge of Growing Up
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Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law
Can Human Rights Survive?: The Hamlyn Lectures 2005
Civil Liberties (Clarendon Law)
Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: From Moral Panics to States of Denial. Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen
Debating Social Rights
Essays On Human Rights And Terrorism
Insolvency Practice and Human Rights
Liberty and Security
On Fantasy Island. Britain, Strasbourg and Human Rights
Principles of Human Rights Adjudication
Terror
The Meanings of Rights

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