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The Rights and Aspirations of the Magna Carta

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Editors:
  1. Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan

    1. Law and Languages, University Francois Rabelais (Tours), Tours Cedex 1, France

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  2. Alexis Chommeloux

    1. Law and Languages, University Francois Rabelais (Tours), Tours Cedex 1, France

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  • Provides an unique approach with contributions from both historians and legal academics

  • Explores Magna Carta as a source of inspiration for democracies both old and new

  • Reveals the gaps in the Great Charter and its contemporary repercussions

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. King John, Magna Carta and the Thirteenth-Century English Church

    • Elizabeth Gemmill
    Pages 1-19

  3. Magna Carta 1815–2015: Filling Up the Gaps

    • Kenneth O. Morgan
    Pages 21-38

  4. UK Supreme Court Versus US Supreme Court: Modern Use of Magna Carta

    • Geraldine Gadbin-George
    Pages 39-63

  5. Exploring the Magna Carta and Governmental Immunity Doctrines: The View from the United States

    • Credence Sol
    Pages 65-87

  6. A New Magna Carta? The Written Constitution Debate in the United Kingdom

    • Andrew Blick
    Pages 89-107

  7. ‘Omnibus liberis hominibus’: The Rights of Refugees, Migrants and Exiles

    • Alison Harvey
    Pages 109-136

  8. Where Is Magna Carta Today?

    • Matthias Kelly
    Pages 137-154

  9. Magna Carta and the Charter of the European Union

    • Peter Gjortler
    Pages 155-175

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 177-181
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About this book

This book provides an original and multidisciplinary approach on Magna Carta (1215) as a joint heritage, a source of inspiration both for long established democracies and countries which only recently experienced the Rule of Law. Far from simply extolling the virtues associated with Magna Carta, it explores the gaps of the Great Charter. Instead of dealing separately with the historians’ and the lawyers’ outlooks as two conflicting perspectives, it juxtaposes the views of medievalist and contemporary historians with those of practicing lawyers and law academics, offering readers a thorough yet accessible historic and legal analysis of the charter and its meaning for the citizens of twenty-first century democracies. At a time of the erosion of civil liberties and fundamental rights, The Rights and Aspirations of the Magna Carta provides a rare insight into the 1215 medieval charter and its legacy.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Law and Languages, University Francois Rabelais (Tours), Tours Cedex 1, France

    Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan, Alexis Chommeloux

About the editors

Alexis Chommeloux is Dean of the Literature, Linguistics and Languages Faculty (Faculté de Lettres et Langues) at the University of Tours, France where he is also Senior Lecturer of Law and Languages. His current research focuses on contemporary British studies with an emphasis on the role of the law in current debate on social trends.

Elizabeth Gibson-Morgan is Senior Lecturer in Law and Languages at the University of Tours, France and Senior Research Fellow in Constitutional Law at King’s College London, UK. Her current research is on House of Lords reform, devolution, the UK Supreme Court and the codification of the British Constitution.


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