The book consists of a thorough introduction and 12 essays specially written for a joint
conference of British and German scholars held at the University of Warwick (U.K.) in 2000. The
papers draw on the German and British experience of human rights in the development of law.
From an English perspective the conference and the collection of essays coincide with the
coming into force of the Human Rights Act in October 2000 a defining moment in English legal
history. The German contributions address the question of human rights in a broader European
context as well as on the background of half a century's experience with human rights in the
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany and the jurisdiction of the Federal
Constitutional Court which had a significant impact on various fields of law.
