Staff Profiles

Mr Roger Masterman - all publications

Articles: review

• Masterman, R.M.W. (2011). Review of Tom Hickman, Public Law after the Human Rights Act (Hart, 2010). Public Law (3): 651-655.
• Masterman, R.M.W. (2009). Review of Lieve Gies, Law and the Media: The Future of an uneasy relationship (2007) and K. J. Bybee (ed), Bench Press: The collision of courts, politics and the media (2007). Social and Legal Studies 18(2): 275-277.
• Masterman, R. (2004). Review: Human Rights Act Toolkit by Jenny Watson and Mitchell Woolf, 2003. International Journal of Public Sector Management 17(4).
• Masterman, R. (2002). Review of M Barrett, The Law Lords: An Account of the Workings of Britain's Highest Judicial Body and the Men who Preside over it. Political Studies 50(1): 169.
• Masterman, R. (2002). Review of N Burrows, Devolution. Public Law 588-590.
• Masterman, R. (2001). Book review of 'Constitutional interpretation textual meaning, original intent and judicial review' by K.E. Whittington, Lawrence KS University Press of Kansas, 1999. Book review of 'Constitutional construction divided powers and constitutional meaning' by K.E. Whittington, Cambridge MA Harvard University Press, 1999. Political Studies 49(1): 119-120.

Books: authored

• Masterman, R.M.W. & Murray, C.R.G. (2013). Exploring Constitutional and Administrative Law. Harlow: Pearson Education (forthcoming, 2013).
• Masterman, R. (2010). The Separation of Powers in the Contemporary Constitution: Judicial Competence and Independence in the United Kingdom. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Masterman, R. & Leigh, I. (2008). Making Rights Real: The Human Rights Act in its first decade. Oxford: Hart Publishing.

Books: edited

• Masterman, R & Leigh, I (2013). The United Kingdom's Statutory Bill of Rights: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press/Proceedings of the British Academy (forthcoming).
• Fenwick, H., Masterman, R. & Phillipson, G. (2007). Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Books: sections

• Masterman, R (2013). 'Deconstructing the Mirror Principle'. In The United Kingdom's Statutory Bill of Rights: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives. Masterman, R & Leigh, I Oxford: Oxford University Press/British Academy.
• Masterman, R & Leigh, I (2013). 'The United Kingdom's Human Rights Project in Constitutional and Comparative Perspective'. In The United Kingdom's Statutory Bill of Rights: Constitutional and Comparative Perspectives. Masterman, R & Leigh, I Oxford: Oxford University Press/Proceedings of the British Academy (forthcoming).
• Masterman, R.M.W. (2007). Aspiration or Foundation? The Status of the Strasbourg Jurisprudence and the 'Convention Rights' in Domestic Law. In Judicial Reasoning under the UK Human Rights Act. Fenwick, H., Masterman, R. & Phillipson, G. Cambridge.: Cambridge University Press. 57-86.
• Masterman, R M W., Fenwick, H M. & Phillipson, G. (2007). The Human Rights Act in Contemporary Context. In Judicial Reasoning Under the UK Human Rights Act. Fenwick, H M, Phillipson, G & Masterman, R M W Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-21.
• Masterman, R. & Mitchell, J. (2001). Devolution and the Centre. In The State of the Nations 2001: The Second Year of Devolution in the United Kingdom. Trench, A Thorverton: Imprint Academic. 175-196.
• Masterman, R. & Hazell, R. (2001). Devolution and Westminster. In The State of the Nations 2001: The Second Year of Devolution in the United Kingdom. Trench, A Thorverton: Imprint Academic. 197-224.

Conference papers

• Masterman, R. (2012), 'What judges talk about when they talk about separation of powers', Beyond Montesquieu: Rethinking the architecture of contemporary governance. Dublin, Ireland.
• Masterman, R. (2010), Dynamics of a contemporary separation of powers, WG Hart Legal Workshop 2010. Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London.
• Masterman, R. (2010), Escaping the Mirror Principle: Towards a municipal law of human rights?, Symposium to Mark the Tenth Anniversary of the Human Rights Act. St John's College, Durham University.
• Masterman, R (2010), The Form and Substance of the United Kingdom's Separation of Powers, The UK and US in 2010: Transition and Transformation. George Washington University, Washington DC.

Journal papers: academic

• Masterman, R.M.W. & Murkens, J.E.K. (2014). 'Skirting Supremacy and Subservience: The Constitutional Authority of the United Kingdom Supreme Court'. Public Law
• Masterman, R.M.W. & Murkens, J.E.K. (2012). Zwischen Vorrangstellung und Ergebenheit: Der Verfassungsstatus des Supreme Court im Vereinigten Königreich. JuristenZeitung 67(21): 1029-1040.
• Masterman, R.M.W. (2009). Interpretations, declarations and dialogue: rights protection under the Human Rights Act and Victorian Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities. Public Law 112-131.
• Masterman, R.M.W. (2009). Juridification, sovereignty and separation of powers. Parliamentary Affairs 62(3): 499-502.
• Masterman, R.M.W. (2009). Labour’s ‘Juridification’ of the Constitution. Parliamentary Affairs 62(3): 476-492.
• Masterman, R. (2005). Determinative in the Abstract? Article 6(1) and the Separation of Powers. European Human Rights Law Review (6): 628-648.
• Masterman, R. (2005). Taking the Strasbourg Jurisprudence into Account: developing a “municipal law of human rights” under the Human Rights Act 1998. International and Comparative Law Quarterly 54(4): 907-932.
• Masterman, R. (2004). A Supreme Court for the United Kingdom Two Steps Forward, but one Step Back on Judicial Independence. Public Law 4: 48-58.
• Masterman, R. (2004). Section 2(1) of the Human Rights Act 1998: Binding Domestic Courts to Strasbourg?. Public Law 12: 725-737.
• Masterman, R., Hazell R, Gay A, Trench S, King M, Sandford R & Maer L (2003). The Constitution: Consolidation and Cautious Advance. Parliamentary Affairs 56(2): 157-169.
• Masterman, R., Hazell R, Sandford M, Seyd B & Croft J (2002). The Constitution: Coming in from the Cold. Parliamentary Affairs 55(2): 219-234.
• Masterman, R., Hazell R, Russell M, Croft J & Seyd B (2001). The Constitution: Rolling out the New Settlement. Parliamentary Affairs 54(2): 190-205.