HRSJ E-BULLETIN, March 2012
The Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute (HRSJ) was created in 2003 to
facilitate multi-disciplinary research, policy analysis, training, teaching and
consultancy. The Institute supports a focused network of academics, students and
practitioners, seeking to explore and substantiate connections between human rights
and social justice, both within and outside the UK.
Keep up with HRSJ news
Watch the video recording of our event "Investigating Deaths in Custody"
The UK and the European Court of Human Rights, a new research report written by HRSJ's
Philip Leach, Alice Donald and Jane Gordon and published by The Equality and Human Rights
Commission, set out to debunk the myths about the European system of human rights
protection and its impact on the UK.
Read the media release and press coverage in The Times newspaper and The Guardian
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UK vs. Strasbourg: dont believe the hype, says Alice Donald, HRSJ's Senior Research Fellow in
the UK Human Rights Blog
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Karen Bennett, HRSJ's Senior Research Fellow will be supporting LMU students interested in
submitting papers for The Association of Human Rights (AHRI) Annual Conference ‘Empower
Human Rights’, Vienna, September 2012
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
P.Leach, Resolving Systemic Human Rights Violations – Assessing the European Court’s Pilot Judgment Procedure in S. Besson (ed.) The European Court of Human Rights after Protocol 14 – Preliminary Assessment and Perspectives, Geneva, Schulthess, 2011
A.Donald, ‘Developing a Bill of Rights for the UK: Lessons from overseas’ in I. Leigh and R. Masterman (eds.) The UK’s statutory Bill of Rights: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives (British Academy, forthcoming 2012).
