This essay, based on a talk at Westminster hall, is published in Nick Spencer’s excellent and informative booklet Religion and the Law. Religion and Law (Nick Spencer ed, Theos), 2012.
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Publication Archives
Defending The Human Rights Act
This was done for a legal magazine and is an effort to explain the value of the Human Rights Act. Legal Week, 2012.
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The Human Rights Act and Business: Friend or Foe?
Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly, 2012
Written with my colleague and friend the professor of English law at King’s John Phillips, this articles assesses the impact on business of the UK Human Rights Act.
Review Of Sikkink, The Justice Cascade
This is a very interesting book about international justice which I reviewed for the Times Higher Educational Supplement, 2012.
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Books That Have Influenced Me
This was done for the LSE Review of Books and is also on their web site. LSE, 2012.
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The Riots
This is my take on the legal aspects of the Summer 2011 riots in England. The Tablet, 2011
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Review of Colin Dayan: The Law is a White Dog
Times Higher Educational Supplement, 2011
I thought this was a marvellous book, a terrible indictment of the treatment of prisoners in the US, and much else besides.