Human rights brought home : socio-legal studies of human rights in the national context / edited by Simon Halliday and Patrick Schmidt.

1. Introduction : socio-legal perspectives on human rights in the national context / Patrick Schmidt and Simon Halliday -- 2. Implementing human rights / Denis Galligan and Deborah Sandler -- 3. France, the UK, and the 'boomerang' of the internationalisation of human rights (1945-2000) / Mikael Rask Madsen -- 4. 'We've had to raise our game' : liberty's litigation strategy under the Human Rights Act 1998 / Richard J. Maiman -- 5. Implementing the Human Rights Act into the courts in England and Wales : culture shift or damp squib? / John Raine and Clive Walker -- 6. The effectiveness of national human rights institutions / Stephen Livingstone and Rachel Murray -- 7. When do rights matter? : a case study of the right to equal treatment in Sweden / Reza Banakar -- 8. Human rights and French criminal justice : opening the door to pre-trial defence rights / Jacqueline Hodgson -- 9. The millennium blip : the Human Rights Act 1998 and local government / Luke Clements and Rachel Morris -- 10. Empowering children? : legal understandings and experiences of rights in the Scottish children's hearings system / Anne Griffiths and Randy Frances Kandel.

"This collection of essays explores human rights in domestic legal systems. The enactment of the Human Rights Act in 1998, ushering the European Convention on Human Rights fully into UK law, represented a landmark in the UK constitutional order. Other European states similarly have elevated the status of human rights in their domestic legal systems. However, whilst much has been written about doctrinal legal developments, little is yet known about the empirical effects of bringing rights home. This collection of essays, written by a range of socio-legal scholars, seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.