This book brings together many of the most prominent contemporary national and international human rights and transitional justice scholars in one collection. The book focuses on the intersection between judges, transitional processes and human rights discourses. It unites doctrinal, socio-legal and criminological perspectives on a range of topics including the judicial construction of national and supra-national constitutions, the role of human rights discourses in transition from conflict, and in a range of sites in more 'settled' societies. The book draws upon comparative experiences in...

This book brings together leading scholars from a range of discipines to examine some of the most pressing questions asked of the role of human rights in international relations. The essays focus on the intersection between the role of judges, the language of human rights, and the politics of societies in transition. The international range of the essays covers experiences as diverse as South Africa, the USA, Great Britain, the Balkans and Northern Ireland.

Academic attention has, in recent years, increasingly focused upon the Europeanization of national legal orders. The interaction of domestic and supranational standards, while often presented as problematic, enables national courts to use European law as a reference point against which to develop domestic principle and practice. The effects of such borrowing can be far-reaching. Courts may assume an enhanced institutional role relative to other branches of the State, and individuals may benefit from the introduction of new remedies and principles of judicial review. This book examines the...

This is the second edition of a leading book on judicial review in Northern Ireland. It provides a fully updated account of the ever-burgeoning body of case law and is divided into chapters that consider the purposes of judicial review, the nature of the public-private divide in Northern Ireland law, the judicial review procedure, the grounds for review, and remedies. The focus of the book is very much on case law that is unique to Northern Ireland, yet it also identifies some important differences between principle and practice in Northern Ireland and that of England/Wales. It also considers...

In months of arduous combat flying over the Western Front and in English skies, Captain Harry Smith faces von Richtofen's dreaded Flying Circus and the sinister threats of Zeppelin and Gotha bombing raids. It's not easy to survive. It's harder to be a hero. And soon Harry is confronted with deep questions about the war, his family, his values and his own life. But behind it all is a secret demon driving him on to achieve glory...