{"product_id":"bills-of-rights-and-decolonization-charles-parkinson-9780199231935","title":"Bills of Rights and Decolonization: The Emergence of Domestic Human Rights Instruments in Britian's Overseas Territories","description":"\u003cem\u003eBills of Rights and Decolonization\u003c\/em\u003e analyzes the British Government's radical change in policy during the late 1950s on the use of bills of rights in colonial territories nearing independence. More broadly it explores the political dimensions of securing the protection of human rights at independence and the peaceful transfer of power through constitutional means. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book fills a major gap in the literature on British and Commonwealth law, history, and politics by documenting how bills of rights became commonplace in Britain's former overseas territories. It provides a detailed empirical account of the origins of the bills of rights in Britain's former colonial territories in Africa, the West Indies and South East Asia as well as in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It sheds light on the development of legal systems at the point of gaining independence and raises questions about the colonial influence on the British legal establishment's change in attitude towards bills of rights in the late twentieth century. It also presents an alternative perspective on the end of Empire by focusing upon one aspect of constitutional decolonization and the importance of the local legal culture in determining each dependency's constitutional settlement and provides a series of empirical case studies on the incorporation of human rights instruments into domestic constitutions when negotiated between a state and its dependencies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eBills of Rights and Decolonization\u003c\/em\u003e highlights Britain's human rights legacy to its former Empire, and traces the genesis of the bills of rights of over thirty nations from the Commonwealth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Parkinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199231931\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199231935\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/10\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.44w x 0.96d","brand":"Charles Parkinson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44321669382399,"sku":"9780199231935","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9ee226cc-6be6-49d9-9a46-65218fcc5aed.jpg?v=1696332080","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bills-of-rights-and-decolonization-charles-parkinson-9780199231935","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}