"This volume arises out of a conference held in the University of Oxford in October 2014"--Page xi.
Includes full text of lecture "The limits of the law", originally presented as the 27th Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Kuala Lumpur, Nov. 20, 2013.
Foreword : beyond the limits / Timothy Endicott
Introduction / Nick Barber, Richard Ekins and Paul Yowell
The limits of law / Lord Sumption
Sumption's assumptions / Martin Loughlin
Living trees or deadwood : the interpretive challenge of the ECHR / Sandra Fredman
Judges, interpretation and self-government / Lord Hoffmann
Judicial law-making and the "living" instrumentalisation of the ECHR / John Finnis
The role of courts in the joint enterprise of governing / Aileen Kavanagh
Three wrong turns in Lord Sumption's conception of law and democracy / Jeff King
The human rights act and "coordinate construction" : towards a "parliament square" axis for human rights? / Carol Harlow
Limits of law : reflections from private and public law / Paul Craig
The limits of Lord Sumption : limited legal constitutionalism and the political form of the ECHR / Richard Bellamy
A response / Lord Sumption.
Lord Sumption and the limits of the law. ISBN 9781849466943. Published by Hart Publishing Ltd in 2016. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.