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Room: Fisher Building, T4

Tel: (01223) 335617

Professor of Public Law and Comparative Historical Jurisprudence

B.A., LL.B., (Stell.), LL.M., M.Phil., Ph.D. (Cantab.)

Interests

Public law: especially from a theoretical or a historical and comparative perspective. Legal history: especially the development of public law.

Research centres and interest groups

Publications

 

Books

A. V. Dicey, The Law of the Constitution, revised pbk. edition (ed) (Oxford University Press, 2019, 2019)

A. V. Dicey, Comparative Constitutionalism, revised pbk. edition (ed) (Oxford University Press, 2019, 2019)

A. V. Dicey, The Law of the Constitution, hbk. (ed) (Oxford University Press, 2013, 2013)

Co-editor(s):
978-0-19-968581-3
Published Oct 2013

A. V. Dicey, Comparative Constitutionalism, hbk. (ed) (Oxford University Press, 2013, 2013)

The English Historical Constitution: Continuity, Change and European Effects, Cambridge University Press, 2007, hbk. & pbk. (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

ISBN:
0521702364
ISBN 13:
978-0-521-70236-2
Published Oct 2007

A Continental Distinction in the Common Law: A Historical and Comparative Perspective on English Public Law, revised pbk. edition (Oxford University Press, 2000)

A Continental Distinction in the Common Law: A Historical and Comparative Perspective on English Public Law, hbk. (Oxford University Press, 1996)

Articles

"The Westminster Parliament's Formal Sovereignty in Britain and Europe from a Historical Perspective" (2017) 34/II Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 57-71

Citation:
(2017) 34/II Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 57-71
Published: Jul 2018

"History to Understand, and History to Reform, English Public Law" [2013] Cambridge Law Journal 526-557

Citation:
[2013] Cambridge Law Journal 526-557
Published: Nov 2013

"Revising the Statutes" (2008) Queens' College Record 10-12

Citation:
(2008) Queens' College Record 10-12
Published: Jul 2008

"History in the 'Law of the Constitution'" (2007) 28 Journal of Legal History 263-282

Citation:
(2007) 28 Journal of Legal History 263-282
Published: Nov 2007

"Variation of View on English Legal Distinctions between Public and Private" [2007] Cambridge Law Journal 698-711

"The Procedural Reason for Judicial Restraint" a republication in P. Cane (ed.), Administrative Law, The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, 2nd Series, (Ashgate, 2002) 83-104

Citation:
a republication in P. Cane (ed.), Administrative Law, The International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory, 2nd Series, (Ashgate, 2002) 83-104
Published: Jul 2002

"Cultural Divergence, the Separation of Powers and the Public-Private Divide" (1997) 9 European Review of Public Law 305-333

Citation:
(1997) 9 European Review of Public Law 305-333
Published: Jul 1997

"The Procedural Reason for Judicial Restraint" [1994] Public Law 452-473

Citation:
[1994] Public Law 452-473
Published: Jul 1994

"Fuller's Analysis of Polycentric Disputes" [1994] Cambridge Law Journal 367-383

Citation:
[1994] Cambridge Law Journal 367-383
Published: Jun 1994

"In Search of Revolutionary Justice in South Africa" (1990) 18 International Journal of the Sociology of Law 409-428

Citation:
(1990) 18 International Journal of the Sociology of Law 409-428
Published: Jul 1990

"De Linguae et Legis Auctoritate" [1985] Responsa Meridiana 1-7

Citation:
[1985] Responsa Meridiana 1-7
Published: Jul 1985

Book Chapters

"Minimising Magna Carta and Modernising Exposition of the Rule of Law in the English Historical Constitution" (with C. May and A. Winchester), Handbook on the Rule of Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, 2018), pp. 149-166

Pages:
149-166
Co-Author/s:
C. May and A. Winchester
Published Sep 2018

"Turning the Rule of Law into an English Constitutional Idea" (with C. May and A. Winchester), Handbook on the Rule of Law (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, 2018), pp. 167-183

Pages:
167-183
Co-Author/s:
C. May and A. Winchester
Published Sep 2018

"An Introduction to the Historical Constitutionalism of the English Common Law" (with D. Ehlers, H. Glaser and K. Prokati), Constitutionalism and Good Governance - Eastern and Western Perspectives (Nomos, 2014, 2014), pp. 127-139

Publisher:
Pages:
127-139
Co-Author/s:
D. Ehlers, H. Glaser and K. Prokati
Published Feb 2014

"The Spirits of the Constitution" (with N. Bamforth and P. Leyland), Accountability in the Contemporary Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 27-56

Pages:
27-56
Co-Author/s:
N. Bamforth and P. Leyland
Published Nov 2013

"Public Law: English Common Law" (with Stanley N. Katz), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 15-19

Pages:
15-19
ISBN 13:
9780195134056
Co-Author/s:
Stanley N. Katz
Published Mar 2009

"The Separation of Powers in the Modern Period in England: Constitutional Principle or Customary Practice?" (with H. van Goethem), Gewoonte en Recht (2002) XVI Iuris Scripta Historica, 2002), pp. 89-106

Pages:
89-106
Co-Author/s:
H. van Goethem
Published Jul 2002

"The United Kingdom: Systems of Judicial Protection" (with S. Spiliotopoulos), Towards Unified Judicial Protection of Citizens in Europe? (Esperia Publications, 2000), pp. 765-772

Pages:
765-772
Co-Author/s:
S. Spiliotopoulos
Published Jul 2000

"Parliamentary Sovereignty, Europe and the Economy of the Common Law" (with M. Andenas), Liber Amicorum in Honour of Lord Slynn of Hadley: Judicial Review in International Perspective (Kluwer, 2000), pp. 177-194

"Legal Culture in Fuller's Analysis of Adjudication" (with W. van der Burg & W. Witteveen), Rediscovering Fuller: Essays on Implicit Law and Institutional Design (Amsterdam University Press, 1999), pp. 346-363

Pages:
346-363
ISBN 13:
978-9053563878
Co-Author/s:
W. van der Burg & W. Witteveen
Published Jul 1999

"Transplantation and Cross-fertilisation" (with J. Beatson & T. Tridimas), New Directions in European Public Law (Hart Publishing, 1998), pp. 169-182

Publisher:
Pages:
169-182
ISBN 13:
9781901362244
Co-Author/s:
J. Beatson & T. Tridimas
Published Jul 1998

"Theoretical and Institutional Underpinnings of a Separate Administrative Law" (with M Taggart), The Province of Administrative Law (Hart Publishing, 1997), pp. 71-89

Publisher:
Pages:
71-89
ISBN 13:
978-1901362015
Co-Author/s:
M Taggart
Published Jul 1997

Book Reviews

Review of 'The Idea of Public Law' by Martin Loughlin (2005) 68 Modern Law Review 344-348

Review of 'An Historical Introduction to Western Constitutional Law' by R. C. van Caenegem (1997) 65 Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis 199-200