Leading Works in Public Law

Patrick O’Brien is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Oxford Brookes University.Ben Yong is an Associate Professor in Public Law and Human Rights at Durham Law School.

• Introduction to this volume; 1. AV Dicey, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution; 2. Ivor Jennings, The Law and the Constitution; 3. Adam Tomkins, Our Republican Constitution; 4. Martin Loughlin, Public Law and Political Theory; 5. Michael Foley, The Silence of Constitutions; 6. William Wade, The Basis of Legal Sovereignty; 7. The Human Rights Act 1998; 8. Alison Young, Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act; 9. Terence Daintith & Alan Page, The Executive in the Constitution; 10. Carol Harlow, Public Law and Popular Justice; 11. De Smith, Judicial Review of Administrative Action; 12. The European Communities Act 1972; 13. Aileen McHarg, Unity and Diversity in the United Kingdom’s Territorial Constitution; 14. It’s Dicey’s World. Can We Escape It?