Widening horizons
Subtitle: the influence of comparative law and international law on domestic law
By: Thomas H. Bingham.
Series: The Hamlyn lectures
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9780521199353; 9780521138024
Subjects: International and municipal law -- Great Britain; Comparative law -- Great Britain
Description: "British judges increasingly now pay attention to foreign case law when deciding domestic cases, and are required to interpret and apply international law in domestic courts and administer an international code of human rights. Tom Bingham examines the consequences of this increasingly internationalist outlook of British courts, including cases which rely on a range of foreign cases, cases where an international convention or principle is interpreted and cases in which human rights cases are decided in reliance on principles established elsewhere"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1. 'Foreign moods, fads or fashions'; 2. 'Wider still and wider'; 3. Nonsense on international stilts?.