A Conversation on the Human Rights Implications of Brexit
On 31 January 2017, OxHRH, together with the Public Law Discussion Group, the Programme for the Foundations of ...
Constitutions and Human Rights
The Majority Judgment in Miller: Vulnerable but Defensible
The UK Supreme Court concluded yesterday, by an 8–3 majority, that legislation is needed for Article 50 to be ...
Miller: A Vital Reaffirmation of Parliamentary Sovereignty
In a ringing defence of the power of Parliament against the executive, the Supreme Court today held that the ...
Decolonizing Human Rights: Sovereignty, Tactics and Disruption
For those of us engaged with human rights, as students, activists and lawyers, I want to suggest that at some point
Swazi Court Reiterates Prominence of Human Rights in their Home-Grown Constitution
In September 2016, the High Court in Swaziland ruled that certain provisions in the Sedition and Subversive ...
Miller in the Supreme Court: The Scottish Case
In the Miller case, the High Court determined that the UK Government may not trigger Article 50 by use of the ...
What Are Human Rights?
A conversation between Kate O’Regan, Director of the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of ...
Miller: Rights and Revocability
There has been much discussion as to whether Article 50 once triggered is revocable. There is no intention to ...
Miller: Alternative Syllogisms
Professor Finnis posed a powerful challenge to the Miller decision by contending that the claimant’s argument was ...
R (Miller) v The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union – Substance over Form?
In a ground-breaking decision, the High Court issued a declaratory order that ‘the Secretary of State does not have
EU Rights as British Rights
According to a carefully argued contribution by Professor Finnis in the Miller debate, rights under the European ...
The Least Dangerous Branch: Whose Role is it to Protect Parliamentary Sovereignty? Miller and the Human Rights Implications of Brexit
One of the extraordinary outcomes of the Brexit referendum has been the insistence that the Government is entitled ...
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