22 Mar 2018 | Human Rights and Political Wrongs
In his recent study for Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project, Sir Noel Malcolm (All Souls College, Oxford) considers European Human Rights law and finds it wanting. The European Court of Human Rights, he argues, operates on principles that are incoherent and...
22 Mar 2018 | Human Rights and Political Wrongs
I am very grateful to these five distinguished authors (Professor Finnis, Baroness O’Neill, Lord Phillips, Professor Tasioulas and Professor Verdirame) for taking the time and trouble to comment on my work. Without writing at even greater length, I cannot deal with...
7 Mar 2018 | Human Rights and Political Wrongs
In this book Sir Noel Malcolm advances three propositions. The first is that there is no moral or philosophical basis for human rights; they are essentially political. The second is that the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg Court has been unsatisfactory. The third is...
6 Mar 2018 | Human Rights and Political Wrongs
Noel Malcolm is surely right both that human rights standards are important, and that accounts of human rights are currently in some trouble. I think that he is also right that some of these troubles have been brought about not by those who are hostile to or who...
17 Jan 2018 | Events, Past events
In his new study for Policy Exchange’s Judicial Power Project, leading historian of ideas Sir Noel Malcolm considers European Human Rights law and finds it wanting. The European Court of Human Rights, he argues, operates on principles that are incoherent and...
20 Oct 2016 | Publications, Publications: Brexit and Judicial Power
Download pdf Submission to the Joint Committee on Human Rights 10 October 2016 Gunnar Beck, 1 Essex Court, former advisor to the European Scrutiny Committee of the House of Commons Dominic Burbidge, Research Fellow, Judicial Power Project Richard Ekins, Associate...