Human Rights and Wrongs
The Reith Lectures
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The Strasbourg Court's Devaluation of Human Rights
Most of the rights added to our law are quite unsuitable for inclusion in any human rights instrument. This has transformed the Convention from an expression of noble values almost universally shared into something meaner. The main problem about human rights law is that it does this too readily. It transforms controversial political issues into questions of law for the courts. In a democracy, the appropriate way of resolving such disagreements is through the political process.
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