Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law

NW Barber is a Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford; Richard Ekins is a Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford; and Paul Yowell is a Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

...this is a stimulating and provocative book. The informed and penetrating discussion of the issues will be of great interest to lawyers generally, particularly to those concerned with public law.

• 1. Introduction NW Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell2. The Limits of Law Lord Sumption3. Sumption’s Assumptions Martin Loughlin4. Living Trees or Deadwood: The Interpretive Challenge of the European Convention on Human Rights Sandra Fredman5. Judges, Interpretation and Self-Government Lord Hoffmann6. Judicial Law-Making and the ‘Living’ Instrumentalisation of the ECHR John Finnis7. The Role of Courts in the Joint Enterprise of Governing Aileen Kavanagh8. Three Wrong Turns in Lord Sumption’s Conception of Law and Democracy Jeff King9. The Human Rights Act and ‘Coordinate Construction’: Towards a ‘ Parliament Square ’ Axis for Human Rights? Carol Harlow10. Limits of Law: Reflections from Private and Public Law Paul Craig11. The Limits of Lord Sumption: Limited Legal Constitutionalism and the Political Form of the ECHR Richard Bellamy12. A Response Lord Sumption