The author considers a series of case studies in which law and culture contest a range of concepts including: legitimacy, judgement, memory, violence and aesthetics. She explores how the legal imagination is bordered by concerns for sheltering the public from, for example, disgusting works of art.

The author considers a series of case studies in which law and culture contest a range of concepts including: legitimacy, judgement, memory, violence and aesthetics. She explores how the legal imagination is bordered by concerns for sheltering the public from, for example, disgusting works of art.

The privatization of the utilities by the Conservative governments of the 1980s and 1990s was a major shift in public policy. It was also a huge experiment in reinventing government, since the newly privatized companies were regulated by high-profile individuals. Frequently criticized and often controversial, the regulators wield enormous power over a large sector of the British economy. This book tells the story of their first fifteen years or so controlling prices, introducing competition, refereeing mergers and sometimes clashing with the government.

The Human Rights Act 1998 is criticised for providing a weak protection of human rights. The principle of parliamentary legislative supremacy prevents entrenchment, meaning that courts cannot overturn legislation passed after the Act that contradicts Convention rights. This book investigates this assumption, arguing that the principle of parliamentary legislative supremacy is sufficiently flexible to enable a stronger protection of human rights, which can replicate the effect of entrenchment. Nevertheless, it is argued that the current protection should not be strengthened. If correctly...