Public law : text, cases, and materials

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Public law : text, cases, and materials

Andrew Le Sueur, Maurice Sunkin, Jo Eric Khushal Murkens

Oxford University Press, 2010

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Written by leading academics, this new Text, Cases, & Materials book on Public Law provides a thought-provoking and vivid account of one of the most interesting areas of the undergraduate law syllabus. The authors have drawn on their substantial experience as teachers and researchers to write a book that will enable readers to acquire both a thorough knowledge of the practicalities of this area of law and an understanding of the theoretical and political debates. The authors explain the key principles of constitutional law and practice, drawing on extracts from a diverse range of materials, along with case studies designed to bring the subject alive. Throughout the book a wealth of learning features - such as questions, discussion points and summaries - are used to help students develop their knowledge and understanding of the issues. The book is organised in four parts. Part 1, constitutional fundamentals, introduces the role of constitutions and core principles such the 'rule of law' and the protection of constitutional rights. Part 2, the executive function, focuses on the organisation and nature of government within the UK and the EU, and how executive power is held to account. Part 3 deals with legislation. It asks who makes legislation? It also examines the extent to which legislators in the UK and EU are accountable for the rules they generate. Part 4 concentrates on the role of the courts and tribunals to explore how disputes between individuals and public bodies are dealt with. ONLINE RESOURCE CENTRE The book is supported by an Online Resource Centre featuring updates on case law, legislation and academic commentary, a test bank of multiple choice questions, a glossary of key terms, extra material to support the case studies in the book, links to relevant material including home pages of the main institutions involved in the case studies (e.g a government department, parliamentary select committee, and campaign group) and reports in the online news media.

Table of Contents

  • PART 1: CONSTITUTIONAL FUNDAMENTALS
  • 1. Getting started in public law
  • 2. Legitimacy in the constitution: parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law
  • 3. Distributing, separating and balancing power
  • 4. Protecting human rights and civil liberties
  • 5. Case study: reforming the Lord Chancellor
  • PART II: EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART II
  • 6. Government and accountability in the UK
  • 7. Exercise and control of executive power in the European Union
  • 8. Prerogative powers and case study on the war prerogative
  • PART III: LEGISLATIVE FUNCTIONS
  • INTRODUCTION TO PART III
  • 9. Primary legislation
  • 10. Delegated legislation
  • 11. European Union treaties and the legislative process
  • 12. Case studies: what happens when the Commons and the Lords disagree
  • PART IV: JUDICIAL AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION FUNCTIONS
  • INTRODUCTION TO JUDICIAL AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION FUNCTIONS
  • 13. Judges and courts
  • 14. Administrative justice and tribunals
  • 15. Judicial review
  • 16. Human rights in the UK courts
  • 17. European Union law in the UK courts

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