{"product_id":"liberty-intact-human-rights-in-english-law-9780198790990","title":"Liberty Intact: Human Rights in English Law","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Tugendhat\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Legal History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat are the connections between conceptions of rights found in English law and those found in bills of rights around the World? How has English Common Law influenced the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) 1948 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) 1950? These questions\u003cbr\u003eand more are answered in Michael Tugendhat's historical account of human rights from the eighteenth century to present day. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing specifically on the first modern declarations of the rights of mankind- the 'Virginian Declaration of Rights', 1776, the French 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen', 1789, and the 'United States Bill of Rights', 1791- the book recognises that the human rights documented in\u003cbr\u003ethese declarations of the eighteenth century were already enshrined in English common law, many originating from English law and politics of the fifteenth century. The influence of English Common Law, taken largely from Blackstone's \u003cem\u003eCommentaries on the Laws of England\u003c\/em\u003e, can also be realised in the\u003cbr\u003eBritish revolutions of 1642 and 1688; the American and French Revolutions of 1776 and 1789 respectively; and through them, on the UDHR and ECHR. Moreover, Tugendhat argues that British law, in all but a few instances, either meets or exceeds human rights standards, and thus demonstrates that human\u003cbr\u003erights law is British law and not a recent invention imported from abroad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eStructured in three sections, this volume (I) provides a brief history of human rights; (II) examines the rights found in the American and French declarations and demonstrates their ancestry with English law; and (III) discusses the functions of rights and how they have been, and are, put to use.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46475640242327,"sku":"9780198790990","price":13026.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780198790990.jpg?v=1766275451","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/liberty-intact-human-rights-in-english-law-9780198790990","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}