Constitutional and Administrative Law

Roger Masterman is Professor of Constitutional Law at Durham Law School, where he teaches UK Constitutional Law and Comparative Constitutional Law. He is Joint General Editor of the journal Public Law, and a member of the executive committee of the UK Constitutional Law Association. Colin Murray teaches Constitutional Law and Counter-Terrorism Law at Newcastle Law School. His research focuses on challenges to a democratic constitutional order. He has appeared as an expert witness before multiple parliamentary committees and served as a specialist adviser to the Select Committee on the Draft Prisoner Voting Bill in 2013.

• Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgements; Table of cases; Table of statutes; Part I. Constitutional Regulation in the Absence of a Codified Constitution; 1. The purposes and characteristics of constitutions; 2. The domestic sources of the UK Constitution; 3. The UK Constitution and international legal orders; 4. Brexit and the UK Constitution; 5. Law, politics and the nature of the United Kingdom Constitution; Part II. The Theory and Practice of the United Kingdom Constitution; 6. Parliamentary sovereignty; 7. The rule of law; 8. Separation of powers; 9. Principles of political and parliamentary accountability; Part III. Central Government in the United Kingdom; 10. The executive; 11. Parliament (I): the House of Commons; 12. Parliament (II): the House of Lords; 13. The United Kingdom Supreme Court and the office of Lord Chancellor: towards an independent judicial branch?; Part IV. Decentralised Government in the United Kingdom; 14. The United Kingdom's devolution arrangements; 15. Devolution and the UK Constitution; Part V. Accountability (I): Scrutiny, Openness and Good Administration; 16. Parliamentary scrutiny of government; 17. The Parliamentary Ombudsman; 18. Freedom of information; Part VI. Accountability (II): The Courts; 19. Judicial review of administrative action – theory, procedure and remedies; 20. Judicial review of administrative action – grounds for review; 21. The European Convention on human rights; 22. The Human Rights Act 1998; 23. Political freedoms and democratic participation; Index.

'This is a thoughtful and thorough examination of the UK constitution, one which provides an illuminating account of the law grounded in the political functioning of the state.' Nicholas Barber, Professor of Constitutional Law and Theory, University of Oxford