Murray Hunt; Hayley Hooper; Paul Yowell sku-406671616

Parliaments and Human Rights: Redressing the Democratic Deficit is a paperback in the Hart Studies in Comparative Public Law series. Listed under Civil Rights Law Books by Murray Hunt; Hayley Hooper; Paul Yowell, its essays examine concerns about a democratic deficit in human rights protection alongside the view that rights need legal protection and that all branches of the state share responsibility for them.

Contributors consider how national and sub-national parliaments review legislation for compatibility with human rights, international efforts to expand parliament's role, and the relationship between legislative and judicial review. They ask whether courts could encourage better parliamentary deliberation.

The volume argues that parliaments need stronger structures and processes to exercise their existing powers to interpret and apply human rights law, make law and hold governments to account, while courts should pay closer attention to their reasoning.

A foreword by Rt Hon John Bercow MP, Speaker of the House of Commons, discusses the book's value to readers interested in human rights and legislatures. SKU sku-406671616.