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"Preface and acknowledgements" [2016] ELECD 651; in Bell, John; Paris, Marie-Luce (eds), "Rights-Based Constitutional Review" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016) xiii

Book Title: Rights-Based Constitutional Review

Editor(s): Bell, John; Paris, Marie-Luce

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781784717605

Section Title: Preface and acknowledgements

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Preface and acknowledgements

GENESIS OF THE BOOK
`Rights-Based Constitutional Review' is based on the contributions
originally presented at the Annual Seminar of the Society of Legal
Scholars (SLS) held in Dublin in July 2013, organized by Marie-Luce
Paris. The SLS is the oldest and largest society in the field of legal
scholarship in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Its aim is to advance
legal research and legal education. The strength of the SLS, which covers
all areas of law, allows for the organization and funding of ambitious
projects, often of comparative nature. The theme of the Seminar naturally
emerged from the observation of the significant developments that
several legal systems have experienced in seeking to adapt review
mechanisms to a better constitutional protection of rights. These devel-
opments have taken different forms ­ whether as acts of incorporation of
the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in, for example, the
UK with the Human Rights Act 1998 or Ireland with the European
Convention on Human Rights Act 2003, or as incorporation of bills of
rights in a non-European context such as, for example, the 2004
Australian Capital Territory Human Rights Act and the 2006 Victoria
Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities in Australia; these devel-
opments have also taken the form of constitutional revisions enhancing
systems of constitutional review in, for example, Belgium and France
with increased review powers vested in the Belgium's Constitutional
Court and the French Constitutional Council. The idea of furthering the
discussion on ...