This book honours a remarkable legal thinker, David Feldman, whose influence on public law and on multiple generations of legal scholars and practitioners has been profound.It provides a unique set of insights into some of the most topical and enduring questions in public law (broadly conceived), through the reflections of a stellar line-up of contributors on key dimensions of David Feldman’s rich body of work.Each chapter constitutes an original and important contribution to the field, taking David Feldman’s seminal writings as a starting-point and developing contemporary, distinctive analytical perspectives.Like David Feldman’s work itself, the book ranges across — and acknowledges and explores the porous relationships between — constitutional law, administrative law and human rights and civil liberties.
Mark Elliot is Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.Natasa Mavronicola is Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Birmingham, UK.Philip Murray is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Cambridge, UK.
1. Introduction, Mark Elliott (University of Cambridge, UK), Natasa Mavronicola (University of Birmingham, UK) and Philip Murray (University of Cambridge, UK)2. How to Be an Excellent Public Law Scholar in a Messy Public Law World, Elizabeth Fisher (University of Oxford, UK)3. How do Ministers “Receive” Administrative Law? Reflections on UK Central Government Guidance, Joanna Bell (University of Oxford, UK)4. Prerogative, Government and Courts, Paul Craig (University of Oxford UK)5. Jones Reconsidered: A Historical Approach to Errors of FactPhilip Murray (University of Cambridge, UK)6. Administrative Unlawfulness, Remedial Consequences and Judicial Discretion: The Modern Law, Jason Varuhas (University of Melbourne, Australia)7. Unconventional Conventions, Alison Young (University of Cambridge and Law Commissioner for England and Wales, UK)8. Of “Corsetry” and “Knicker-Elastic”: Constitutional Civility in an Age of Populism, Mark Elliott (University of Cambridge, UK)9. Constitutionalising the Devolved “Dual State”, Aileen McHarg (Durham University, UK)10. Constitutional Theory, Adjudication, Globalisation, Cheryl Saunders (University of Melbourne, UK)11. “Taking Their Constitutional Roles Seriously”: Reflections on The Recent Past(s) of the United Kingdom Constitution Fiona de Londras (University of Birmingham, UK)12. The Place of Human Rights in Criminal Justice, Natasa Mavronicola (University of Birmingham, UK)13. Birth, Development, and Afterlife of States, Veronika Fikfak (University College London, UK)14. David Feldman’s Dignity: Revisiting ‘Human Dignity as a Legal Value’, Christopher McCrudden (Queen’s University Belfast, UK)15. Sovereign Principle and Prudence: Rights Adjudication in Turbulent Times, Colm O'Cinneide (University College London, UK)16. The Precarious Internationalism of the British Constitution, Marko Milanovic (University of Reading, UK) and Sangeeta Shah (University of Nottingham, UK)