Linda Hancock - Rewriting Rights in Europe

Edited by
Linda Hancock
School of Australian and International Studies,
Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia

Carolyn O'Brien
Department of Political Science,
University of Melbourne, Australia

First published 2000 by Ashgate Publishing

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The editors are grateful to the contributors for their scholarship and commitment to completing this volume. We also thank the reviewers: Alistair Davidson, Bemadette Dejean de la Batie, John Dryzek, Heather Field, James Goodman, Leslie Holmes, Peter McPhee, Elim Papadekis and David Tucker, who assisted in refereeing the chapters and Elizabeth Meehan for her apposite comments in the Foreword. We are grateful to those who supported the initial Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia (CESAA) symposium, from which the idea for the book arose and in particular, to the Delegation of the European Commission to Australia and New Zealand and to the Ambassador, Aneurin Hughes. We thank our publisher, John Irwin from Ashgate, for his encouragement and patience, our colleagues for their conviviality and intellectual support and the Politics Department and Centre for Public Policy, University of Melbourne for supporting our work on this project.

Stefan Auer has studied political philosophy and German literature at the University of Cologne and worked for the Czech and Slovak department of the Radio Deutsche Welle. He is currently completing a PhD in Political Science at the University of Melbourne, writing on Liberal Nationalism and the Postcommunist Transition of Central Europe. His most recent published work is 'Nationalism in Central EuropeA Chance or a Threat for the Emerging Liberal Democratic Order?', in East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 14, No. 2, 2000.

Helen Durham is the National Manager of International Humanitarian Law (aka the Law of War) for Australian Red Cross. She graduated from The University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Laws with Honours and a Bachelor of Arts and has recently completed a Doctorate of Juridical Science, reviewing the role of non-governmental organisations in the development of the Statute for an International Criminal Court. In 1995 Helen was chosen by the Academic Council of the United Nations to attend a two week seminar in The Hague. A year later she was awarded a Queens Trust Grant and spent six months in New York working on her Doctorate at the United Nations and New York University. In 1997 Helen was awarded a Gareth Evans Grawemeyer Award to enable her to complete her research at the United Nations. In 1998 Helen was a member of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegation to the Rome Diplomatic Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court. She has lectured academics and members of the military in Jakarta and Aceh, Indonesia. Helen has published numerous articles in the area of international law and edited a book soon to be released on the effectiveness of International Humanitarian Law.

Paul Hainsworth is Senior Lecturer in Politics/Humanities at the University of Ulster. His research interests include contemporary French politics, Northern Ireland and the European Community, Communist-Catholic relations and regional politics and policy. He has published a number of books on the above issues, including Border Crossing: Film in Ireland, Britain and Europe (Institute of Irish Studies, 1994), co-edited with J.Hill and M.McLoone, and Divided society; ethnic minorities and racism in Northern Ireland, (Pluto Press, 1998). He has also published a great deal of articles and contributed chapters to journals and books, including Parliamentary Affairs, Studies in French Language, Literature and Society, Regional Politics and Policy, Electoral Studies and Irish Political Studies.

Stephen Hall is Director of the European Law Centre and Senior Lecturer in law at the University of New South Wales and formerly Counsel in the Australian Federal Attorney-General's Department. Dr Hall teaches a range of European Union law subjects and has taught European Union law in the postgraduate law programme at Monash University. He practiced law for nine years and retains a consultancy role at the Attorney-General's Department. Among his publications on the subject of European Union citizenship is his book Nationality, Migration Rights and Citizenship of the Union (Martinus Nijhoff, 1995). His most recent publication is The Rule of Law after Communism: Problems and Prospects in East-Central Europe (Ashgate, 1999). His current field of research is Union citizenship, external relations law, federalism and human rights.

Linda Hancock is Associate Professor in public policy at Deakin University, Victoria and President of CESAA (the Contemporary European Studies Association of Australia). She teaches a range of social and public policy subjects with a particular interest in comparative welfare states, social policy and social protection. Recent edited monographs include: Women, Public Policy and the State (Macmillan Australia, 1999) and Health Policy in the Market State (Allen and Unwin, 1999). She has been Visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Duke University and the European University Institute, Florence, and has written chapters and articles for journals and books; the most recent for the Canadian Social Union Project and Citizenship and National Identity in Europe (eds. L. Holmes and P. Murray). Recent research includes The Women's Audit Project and she is currently working on a two year project: From Welfare State to New Social Settlement.

Attracta Ingram teaches philosophy and women's studies at University College, Dublin. She is the author of A Political Theory of Rights (Oxford, 1994). Recent work includes publications on normative issues of European integration, justice and pluralism, and changing conceptions of the nation-state. She is currently working on a book on political membership.

David Kinley is Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights and Professor in law at Monash University, and is a legal specialist in human rights and constitutional law. He holds a Doctorate in Constitutional Law from Cambridge University, as well as an MA in Socio-Legal Studies from Sheffield University. Dr Kinley has lectured in and written on a range of subjects in public law, human rights and EU law. His publications include The European Convention on Human Rights: Compliance Without Incorporation (Dartmouth, 1993) and Principles of European Community Law (Law Book Co., 1995). He also has written chapters and articles for a number of books, his most recent in the forthcoming publication entitled Protecting Human Rights Through Bills of Rights.