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Skinner's book is challenging but rewarding. It is both theoretically and doctrinally complex, and deploys sophisticated techniques from legal theory, socio-political theory and interpretative analysis core to which is a reading of Cover and Paul Ricoeur. But at its centre is an important premise: the connection between the right to life under article 2 and democratic society in the context of the use of force by the state in the name of the rule of law - and how that connectedness goes to the very identity of a democratic society. -- Christopher Stanley * Law Society Gazette * Stephen Skinner's book has contributed significantly to our understanding of the vital democratic standards that underpin the right to life, as well as to our understanding of democracy itself ... This book is a difficult and challenging read for lawyers as well as social and political theorists. It takes them out of their comfort zone - as it is meant to - but the effort is highly rewarding since it speaks to each discipline about one of the most important features of life in a democracy and one that is subject to endless debate. -- Michael O'Boyle, Former Deputy Registrar, European Court of Human Rights * European Convention on Human Rights Law Review *

Skinner's book is challenging but rewarding. It is both theoretically and doctrinally complex, and deploys sophisticated techniques from legal theory, socio-political theory and interpretative analysis core to which is a reading of Cover and Paul Ricoeur. But at its centre is an important premise: the connection between the right to life under article 2 and democratic society in the context of the use of force by the state in the name of the rule of law - and how that connectedness goes to the very identity of a democratic society. -- Christopher Stanley * Law Society Gazette *

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Stephen Skinner is Associate Professor of Comparative Legal History and Human Rights at the University of Exeter.

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