Bills of Rights and Decolonization: The Emergence of Domestic Human Rights Instruments in Britian's Overseas Territories

Bills of Rights and Decolonization 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.

Author: Charles Parkinson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 01/10/2008
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.44w x 0.96d
ISBN: 9780199231935

About the Author
Dr. Charles Parkinson was educated at the University of Melbourne, King's College London and the University of Oxford. He is a visiting scholar at the Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne. He has published widely in legal and historical journals and is the author of Sir William Stawell and the Victorian Constitution (2004).

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