Legislated Rights

Grégoire Webber is Canada Research Chair in Public Law and Philosophy of Law at Queen's University, Ontario and Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Paul Yowell is the Benn Fellow in Law at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Richard Ekins is Tutorial Fellow in Law at St John's College, University of Oxford. Maris Köpcke is Lecturer in Law at the Universitat de Barcelona. Bradley W. Miller is Justice of the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Canada. Francisco J. Urbina is Assistant Professor of Law at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

'Legislated Rights makes an important contribution to contemporary rights scholarship.' Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, Judicial Power Project (www.judicialpowerproject.org.uk)

• 1. Introduction: securing human rights through legislation; 2. Rights and persons; 3. Why it takes law to realise human rights; 4. Legislation as reasoned action; 5. From universal rights to legislated rights; 6. How legislation aids human rights adjudication; 7. Majoritarianism and pathologies of judicial review.