Table of Contents

1. Introduction NW Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell 2. The Limits of Law Lord Sumption 3. Sumption’s Assumptions Martin Loughlin 4. Living Trees or Deadwood: The Interpretive Challenge of the European Convention on Human Rights Sandra Fredman 5. Judges, Interpretation and Self-Government Lord Hoffmann 6. Judicial Law-Making and the ‘Living’ Instrumentalisation of the ECHR John Finnis 7. The Role of Courts in the Joint Enterprise of Governing Aileen Kavanagh 8. Three Wrong Turns in Lord Sumption’s Conception of Law and Democracy Jeff King 9. The Human Rights Act and ‘Coordinate Construction’: Towards a ‘ Parliament Square ’ Axis for Human Rights? Carol Harlow 10. Limits of Law: Reflections from Private and Public Law Paul Craig 11. The Limits of Lord Sumption: Limited Legal Constitutionalism and the Political Form of the ECHR Richard Bellamy 12. A Response Lord Sumption

About the Author

NW Barber is a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; Richard Ekins is a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford; and Paul Yowell is a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

Reviews

...this is a stimulating and provocative book. The informed and penetrating discussion of the issues will be of great interest to lawyers generally, particularly to those concerned with public law.
*Hong Kong Law Journal*

Distinguished public lawyers, mostly from Oxford, reflect on Lord Sumption’s ideas. The resulting volume is a rich feast of disagreements... [The] commentary advances the human rights debate at a time when the continuation of the 1998 constitutional settlement is no longer assured.
*Law Quarterly Review*