Parliamentary Sovereignty vs Human Rights Values

The Role of Courts in a Democracy

5-Parliamentary Sovereignty vs Human Rights Values

Professor Tony Wright, former MP summarizes the benefits of debate in the interative process of reaching the most appropriate balance between parliamentary sovereignty and human rights values.

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The Post-Populist Constitution: Reassessing the Role of the People

Professor Denis Galligan, Emeritus Professor of Socio-Legal Studies, delivers the 2018 Max Watson Annual Lecture on the constitutional consequences of the rise in populist movements around the worl

Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

A panel chaired by Emeritus Professor Denis Galligan assess the relative merits of the huge increases in global wealth in recent centuries against increasing social inequality.

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