CONSTITUTIONAL LAW

Constitutional Law

Constitutional Law

The difficulties that Britain's membership in the EU poses for the traditional version of parliamentary sovereignty are mirrored, in a less developed form, by recent major reforms to the U.K. Constitution, two of which are particularly germane to the present discussion. The Human Rights Act gives effect in U.K. law to many of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights. None of the rights contained in the ECHR are placed beyond parliamentary interference by the HRA: indeed, when the government set out its proposals for legislation in this area, it emphasized its ongoing attachment to the ...