Introduction - The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship?

Katja S Ziegler, Elizabeth Wicks and Loveday Hodson, ‘The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship?’, in Katja S Ziegler, Elizabeth Wicks and Loveday Hodson (eds), The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship? (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2015 Forthcoming)

University of Leicester School of Law Research Paper No. 15-08

26 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2015

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Katja S. Ziegler

Leicester Law School

Elizabeth Wicks

Leicester Law School

Loveday Hodson

University of Leicester - School of Law

Date Written: February 23, 2015

Abstract

The chapter is the introductory chapter of the book The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship?’ (edited by KS Ziegler, E Wicks and L Hodson, Hart Publishing 2015). The chapter introduces into the various themes of the book which focuses upon the topical and contentious issue of the relationship between the UK and the European systems for the protection of human rights from a doctrinal and contextual perspective. The book, in its inquiry into the reasons for the ‘strain’ in the relationship seeks to untangle the elements of a complex relationship which lie both in the European and the domestic constitutional context. It includes two contextual perspectives by exploring the approach of other jurisdictions to European human rights and the role of the media in contributing to debates in the UK. The chapter provides a short overview of the book.

Keywords: European human rights, ECHR, EU human rights, EU Charter on Fundamental Rights, European Court of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights and national courts, implementation of the ECHR, judicial dialogue, subsidiarity, ‘mirror’ principle, Parliamentary sovereignty, state sovereignty, relations

Suggested Citation

Ziegler, Katja S. and Wicks, Elizabeth and Hodson, Loveday, Introduction - The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship? (February 23, 2015). Katja S Ziegler, Elizabeth Wicks and Loveday Hodson, ‘The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship?’, in Katja S Ziegler, Elizabeth Wicks and Loveday Hodson (eds), The UK and European Human Rights: A Strained Relationship? (Oxford, Hart Publishing, 2015 Forthcoming), University of Leicester School of Law Research Paper No. 15-08, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2568704 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2568704

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Elizabeth Wicks

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Loveday Hodson

University of Leicester - School of Law ( email )

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Leicester LE1 7RH, LE1 7RH
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