Note on the Paperback Edition
Preface
Abbreviations
1: Human Rights, Fundamental Freedoms, and the World of the Common
Law
2: The Mechanisms of Repression
3: The International Protection of Individual Rights Before
1939
4: The Ideological Response to War: Codes of Human Rights
5: Human Rights and the Structure of the Brave New World
6: The Burdens of Empire
7: The Foreign Office Establishes a Policy
8: Beckett's Bill and the Loss of the Initiative
9: Conflict Abroad and at Home
10: The Growing Disillusion
11: Britain and the Western Option
12: From the Brussels Treaty to the Council of Europe
13: A Convention on the Right Lines: The Rival Texts
14: The Conclusion of Negotiations and the Rearguard Action
15: The First Protocol
16: Ratification and its Consequences
17: Emergencies and Derogations
18: The First Cyprus Case
19: The Outcome of the Two Applications
20: Coming In, Rather Reluctantly, From the Cold
Bibliography
Index
A. W. Brian Simpson is Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.
`Human Rights and the End of Empire is full of good things. It is
well written, with numerous interesting (and provoking) asides and
pen portraits of the dramatis personae. It provides an unrivalled
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attitudes to human rights in the immediate post-war years, and will
be an invaluable aid to anyone wishing to understand the evolution
of the European system of human rights protection.'
Human Rights Law Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Autumn 2001
`This is a major book by a master of legal history.'
International and Comparative Law Quarterly
`a very well written book, based on meticulous scholarship, with a
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importance, especially since September 11th.'
Professor Bernard Porter, TLS
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