The United Kingdom's Statutory Bill of Rights
Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives
Edited by Roger Masterman and Ian Leigh
A British Academy Publication
Author Information
Roger Masterman is Reader in Law at Durham Law School and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre.
Ian Leigh is Professor of Law at Durham University. He is a member of the Durham Human Rights Centre and the Durham Global Security Institute. He has taught at several UK universities and held visiting appointments at the universities of Otago, Florida, Virginia, Melbourne and at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Contributors:
Colin Murray was appointed to a lectureship in law at Newcastle University in 2007.
Aidan O'Neill QC is a barrister at Matrix Chambers. He is qualified to appear as counsel in England and Wales and in Scotland and has appeared as senior counsel before, among other tribunals, the UK Supreme Court, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the House of Lords, Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights.
Gavin Phillipson is Professor of Law at Durham Law School and has published extensively in the fields of human rights and constitutional law.
Sir Rabinder Singh is a Justice of the High Court of England and Wales (Queen's Bench Division). At the time of writing he was a barrister at Matrix Chambers, London. He is an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Nottingham.
Julia Watson is an associate to the Honourable Chief Justice French at the High Court of Australia, and was previously an associate to the Honourable Justice Kenny at the Federal Court of Australia. Julia holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently completing a Master of Laws at the University of Melbourne.
Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1972 to 1987 and Chief Justice from 1987 to 1995. He was Commonwealth Solicitor General from 1964 to 1969 and a Judge of the NSW Court of Appeal from 1969 to 1972. Until recently, he was Chancellor of UNSW, National Fellow at the Research School of Social Sciences at the ANU, a Judge of the Supreme Court of Fiji and President of the Solomon Islands Court of Appeal. In 1996-1997 he was Arthur Goodhart Professor in Legal Science at Cambridge University. Since 2001 he has been Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the ANU College of Law. Sir Anthony has been a non-permanent Judge of the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal since 1997. Sir Anthony holds Honorary Doctorates from the Australian National University and Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, Griffith and Deakin Universities, UNSW and the Universities of Oxford and Hong Kong.
Merris Amos is a member of the Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London.
Sir Jack Beatson is a Justice of the High Court of England and Wales (Queen's Bench Division), and formerly Rouse Ball Professor of English Law, University of Cambridge.
Dr Petra Butler is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington and an Associate Director of the New Zealand Centre for Public Law. She is a fully qualified German lawyer and admitted as barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
Alice Donald is Senior Research Fellow in the Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute at London Metropolitan University.
Simon Evans is Professor of Law at the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne.
Helen Fenwick is Professor of Law at Durham Law School and Co-Director of the Human Rights Centre.
