The Foundations and Future of Public Law

Elizabeth Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law, Corpus Christi College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her 2007 book, Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism, won the 2008 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2008. She is also author of Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction and co-author of Fisher, Lange, and Scotford, Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials. She is General Editor of Journal of Environmental Law, Reviews Editor of the OJLS, and has served as the editor of the Legislation and Reports Section of the Modern Law Review. Jeff King is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is the co-editor of Current Legal Problems, formerly the Co-Editor of the UK Constitutional Law Blog, and sits on the editorial committee of Public Law. His Judging Social Rights won the 2014 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. He is presently an Executive Member of the UK Constitutional Law Association, and member of the UK Study of Parliament Group. In 2017 he was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law. Alison Young is currently the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College. She is an executive member of the UK Constitutional Law Association and co-editor of the UKCLA blog. She is also on the editorial Board of European Public Law. She is the author of Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution, for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2013-15, and Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act.

• 1: Elizabeth Fisher, Jeff King and Alison Young: Introduction: Why Fundamentals MatterPart One: Theory2: Neil Walker: The State and Other Polities; the Diverse Objects of Public Law3: Janet McLean: The Changing Authority Bases of Administrative Law4: Nick Barber: Theory: A CommentaryPart Two: Legislation5: Jeff King: The Province of Delegated Legislation6: Eleanor Sharpston QC: Legislating and Adjudicating: Where and How to Strike the Balance7: Lord Justice Philip Sales: Legislation: A CommentaryPart Three: Case Law8: Gráinne de Búrca: Connecting National Courts and the ECJ9: Alison Young: Public Law Cases and the Common Law: A Unique Relationship?10: Timothy Endicott: Case Law: A CommentaryPart Four: The Administrative State: Institutions and Accountability11: Deirdre Curtin: Beyond Probability: The Accountability of Data Possibility12: Elizabeth Fisher: The Open Road? Navigating Administrative Institutions and The Failed Promise of Administrative Law13: Anne Davies: Institutions and Accountability: A CommentaryPart Five: The Administrative State: Process and Procedure14: Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings: Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure15: Joana Mendes: Administrative Discretion in EU Law: Judicial and Administrative Review16: Mark Freedland: Process and Procedure: A CommentaryPart Six: Constitutions and Rights17: Cheryl Saunders: The Challenges of Multi-Layered Constitutionalism18: Miguel Maduro: The Transformation of Politics and Democracy in and Beyond the State19: Sionaidh Douglas-Scott: Constitutions and Rights: A CommentaryConclusion20: Paul Craig: The Fundamentals

This is an interesting and stimulating collection of essays. It would be possible to engage in an article-length response to each of the chapters. The space at my disposal does not do justice to the quality of the research, argumentation and presentation of the authors ... Craig should be delighted that his ideas and work have generated such a worthy response in this publication.