The War against Law

David Dyzenhaus is University Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of Legality and Legitimacy: Carl Schmitt, Hans Kelsen, and Hermann Heller in Weimar (1999),The Constitution of Law: Legality in a Time of Emergency (2006), and The Long Arc of Legality: Hobbes, Kelsen, Hart (2022).

• Preface; Introduction; 1. The new constitutional lobbyists; 2. Parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law; 3. A tale of a parallel universe; 4. Heresy vs. heresy: debating the rule of law; 5. Sovereignty, international law and the rule of law; 6. The political theology of the parallel universe.

'It is marvellous that David Dyzenhaus, one of the world's top legal and constitutional theorists, unrivalled on wicked law in modern times, should enter the debate about judicial power in Britain. Wherever anyone stands on these issues, or on politics generally, they must read this book.' Paul Tucker, author of Global Discord