Current problems in the protection of human rights : perspectives from Germany and the UK / edited by Katja S. Ziegler and Peter M. Huber.

Revised papers from a joint conference of the Law Faculty of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich and the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford held in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Human rights and criminal law : an ambivalent relationship : perspectives of the German Bundesverfassungsgericht and the European Court of Human Rights / Frank Zimmermann -- Eroding the structure of the Convention? : The public interest in prosecutions of serious crime / Andrew Ashworth -- The "constitutionalisation" of labour law : possibilities and problems / A.C.L. Davis -- The Human Rights Act 1998, horizontality and the constitutionalisation of private law / Alison L. Young -- Consitutionalisation of the freedom of contract in European Union law / Carsten Herresthal -- Anti-discrimination legislation : a paradigm shift in the protection of human rights? / Peter M. Huber -- The Human Rights Act 1998 and the development of administrative law in the United Kingdom / Anthony Bradley -- Human rights protection in multipolar legal relationships / Sophie-Charlotte Lenski -- Empirical research in rights-based judicial review of legislation / Paul Yowell -- "Human dignity shall be inviolable" : dealing with a constitutional taboo / Sebastian Unger -- The national identity of the member states in Europe and the jurisprudence of the Court of Justice of the European Union : starting from Omega / Jan Kalbheim -- Preventive information search by the police as an anti-terrorism measure : the German perspective / Foroud Shirvani -- Terrorism, secrecy and human rights / Patrick Birkinshaw.