Bellamy on Sumption on Judicial Review

Richard Bellamy (University College London – Department of Political Science) has posted The Limits of Lord Sumption: Limited Legal Constitutionalism and the Political Form of the ECHR (Nicholas Barber, Richard Ekins, Paul Yowell (eds), Lord Sumption and the Limits of the Law, Oxford: Hart, 2016, Ch. 11, pp. 193-212) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:

Lord Sumption's critique of expansive judicial review, especially on the part of the European Court of Human Rights, has certain similarities with some political constitutionalist critiques. However, they are differently motivated and far more constraining. Instead, his arguments derived from a limited form of legal constitutionalism and highlight some of the problems with that way of reasoning.