ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Giulia Gentile

Giulia Gentile is Fellow in Law at the LSE Law School. She specialises in EU constitutional law and the protection of fundamental rights in the digital environment.

POSTS BY Giulia Gentile

19 July 2022

Giulia Gentile

The Bill of Rights Bill and the damages of UK’s unilateralism

Just a fortnight before the resignation of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the UK Government published its draft Bill of Rights Bill, which seeks to repeal and amend the 1998 Human Rights Act which incorporated the ECHR into UK law (section 1(1) of the Bill). The Bill is an expression of a broader trend emerging in UK policies to unilaterally amend (or even avoid) international law commitments. Continue reading >>