As spheres of authority in the global order increasingly overlap and provoke conflicts between them, this panel explores the ways in which these interface conflicts are dealt with and produce a new order ‘at the margins‘. Interface conflicts arise when actors have conflicting views about international norms and rules associated with international authorities. Actors from...
Tag: <span>Christopher McCrudden</span>
Brexit‘s Effect on State Architecture: Subsidiarity, Devolution, Federalism and Independence
In an earlier article, some years before the Brexit Referendum, I examined the current ‘architecture‘ of the British state, in particular the way in which governmental power was distributed among the nations of the United Kingdom. The theme of this chapter was to show how the continuing (and, as James Bryce argued, inevitable) tension between...
Litigating Religions
Religions are a problem for human rights, and human rights are a problem for religions. And both are problems for courts. This paper, based on a recently published book, presents an interpretation of how religion and human rights interrelate in the legal context, and how this relationship might be reconceived to make this relationship somewhat...