Publications by Professor Alison L Young

Full list of publications by Professor Alison L Young.

  • Alison L Young, ‘The Constitutional Role of the Law Commission’, in Constitutional Actors in the UK Constitution (eds C Monaghan), Hart Publishing, 2026
  • Alison L Young, ‘The UK Constitution’, in The UK Regulatory Framework Post-Brexit: 'Law Unbound'. (eds P Craig and V Velyvvte), Oxford University Press, 2026
  • Alison L Young, ‘Re Allister’s Application for Judicial Review [2023] UKSC 5: The Importance of Constitutional Wisdom’, in Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: Key Cases and Decisions (eds L Graham and J Russell), Routledge, 2025
  • Alison L Young, ‘Constitutional Balance and the Common Law Constitution’, in The Promise of Legality: Critical Reflections on the work of TRS Allan (eds G Carter and M Walters), Hart Publishing, 2025
  • Alison L Young, ‘United Kingdom’, in The Revival of the Rule of Law Issue (eds M Safjen), Intersentia, 2024
  • Alison L Young, Aurélie Duffy-Meunier, ‘Populisme et changements constitutionnels au Royaume-Uni’, in L'influence du Populisme sur les Changements Constitutionnels (eds A Duffy-Meunier et N Perlo), 2024
  • Alison L Young, ‘Dicey's Forgotten Constitution’, in Dicey + 100 Albert Venn Dicey: A Centenial Commemoration (eds A Dickinson, T Endicott and W Ernst), Intersentia, 2024
  • Alison L Young, ‘Accountability, Human Rights and Beyond: Lessons from Social Security Law’, in Questions of Accountability: Prerogative, Power and Politics (eds M Flinders and C Monaghan), Hart Publishing, 2023
  • Alison L Young, ‘Law and Politics: Standing on Shifting Sand?’, in Public Law in a Troubled Era: a Tribute to Patrick Birkinshaw (eds K Gromek-Broc), Kluwer Law International, 2023
  • Alison L Young, ‘Brexit, Parliament, and the Courts - Towards a New Relationship?’, in Parliament and the Law (eds A Horne, L Thompson and B Yong), 2022
  • Alison L Young, ‘Constitutional Methodology and Brexit: Adopting a Model-Theoretic Approach’, in The Methodology of Constitutional Theory (eds D Kyritsis and S Lakin), Hart Publishing, 2022
  • Alison L Young, ‘The Prorogation Case: Re-inventing the Constitution or Re-imagining Constitutional Scholarship?’, in The UK Supreme Court Yearbook, Volume 10: 2018-19 Legal Year (eds Daniel Clarry), 2021
  • Alison L Young, ‘The Brexit Crisis: Challenges for Cross-Border Solidarity’, in Transnational Solidarity: Concepts, Challenges and Opportunities (eds H Krunke, H Petersen and I Manners), 2020
  • Alison L Young, ‘Populism and the United Kingdom.’, in Populism and Democracy (eds Sascha Hardt, Aalt Willem Heringa, and Hoai-Thu Nguyen), Eleven Publishing, 2020
  • Alison L Young, ‘Fundamental Common Law Rights and Legislation’, in Common Law Constitutional Rights (eds M Elliott and K Hughes), Hart Publishing, 2020
  • Alison L Young, ‘Public Law Cases and the Common Law: A Unique Relationship?’, in Foundations and Future of Public Law (eds L Fisher, J King and A L Young), Oxford University Press, 2020
  • Alison L Young, ‘The Relationship between Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary’, in J Jowell and C O'Cinneade (eds) The Changing Constitution, Oxford University Press, 2019
  • Alison L Young, P Birkinshaw, V Mitsilegas, T A Christou, ‘Europe's Gift to the United Kingdom: Juridification’, in A Albi and S Bardutzky (eds) National Constitutions in European and Global Governance: Democracy, Rights and the Rule of Law (National Reports), Springer, 2019
  • Alison L Young, ‘Populism and Parliamentary Sovereignty: the Goldsworthy Solution’, in L Burton Crawford, P Emerton and D Smith (eds) Law under a Democratic Constitution: Essays in Honour of Jeffrey Goldsworthy, Hart Publishing, 2019
  • Alison L Young, ‘Dialogue and its Myths: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'’, in 'Constitutional Dialogue: Rights, Democracy, Institutions' (eds G Sigalet, G Webber and R Dixon), 2019
  • Alison L Young, M Elliott, J Williams, ‘The Miller Tale: An Introduction’, in M Elliott, J Williams and AL Young (eds), The UK Constitution after Miller: Brexit and Beyond, Hart Publishing, 2018
  • Alison L Young, None, ‘Miller and the Future of Constitutional Adjudication’, in M Elliott, J Williams and AL Young (eds), The UK Constitution after Miller: Brexit and Beyond, Hart Publishing, 2018
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Dialogue, Deliberation and Human Rights’, in R Levy, H Kong G Orr and J King (eds) 'The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism', 2018
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Exporting Dialogue: Critical Reflections on Canada's "Commonwealth" Model of Human Rights Protections’, in R Albert and D R Cameron (eds) Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution, 2017
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, G d Burca, ‘Proportionality’, in S Vogenauer and S Weatherill (eds), General Principles of Law: European and Comparative Perspectives, Hart Publishing, 2017
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘EU fundamental rights and judicial reasoning: towards a theory of human rights adjudication for the EU’, in S Douglas-Scott and N Hatzis (eds) Research Handbook on EU Law and Human Rights, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Lord Hoffmann and Public Law: TV Dinner or Dining at the Savoy?’, in Paul S Davies and Justine Pila (eds) The Jurisprudence of Lord Hoffmann, Hart Publishing, 2015
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Proportionality is Dead: Long Live Proportionality!’, in G Huscroft, B Miller and G Webber (eds), Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Justification and Reasoning, 2014
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Accountability, Human Rights Adjudication and the Human Rights Act 1998’, in N Bamforth and P Leyland (eds) Accountability in the Contemporary Constitution, Oxford University Press, 2013
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘The Human Rights Act 1998, Horizontality and the Constitutionalisation of Private Law’, in K Ziegler and P Huber (eds) Current Problems in the Protection of Human Rights, Hart Publishing, 2013
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Parliamentary Sovereignty Redefined’, in R Rawlings, P Leyland and A L Young (eds), Sovereignty and the Law: Domestic European and International Perspectives, 2013
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Mapping Horizontality’, in D Hoffman (ed) The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law, 2013
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Precedent’, in D Hoffman (ed) The Impact of the UK Human Rights Act on Private Law, 2011
  • Alison L Young, A L Young, ‘Horizontality and the Human Rights Act 1998’, in K Ziegler (ed) Human Rights and Private Law: Privacy as Autonomy, Hart Publishing, 2007
  • Alison L Young, ‘Parliament is not sovereign - and it's a good thing too!’, [2026] Public Law 208
  • Alison L Young, ‘Exporting Dialogue to the United Kingdom: Consensus, Crises and Compromises’, (2026) 46 National Journal of Constitutional Law 257
  • Alison L Young, ‘To Quash or Not to Quash: When Should Courts Suspend or Limit the Retrospective Effects of a Quashing Order?’, (2023) 28 (3) Judicial Review 200, Taylor and Francis
  • Alison L Young, ‘Stuck at a Crossroad? Substantive Legitimate Expectations in Public Law’, (2021) 80 Cambridge Law Journal S179-S207
  • Alison L Young, ‘Ad Hoc Constitutional Reform in the UK’, (2021) 52 Conn. L. Rev. 1409
  • Alison L Young, ‘Populism and the UK Constitution’, (2018) 71 Current Legal Problems 17
  • Alison L Young, ‘Brexit, Miller, and the Regulation of Treaty Withdrawal: One Step Forwards, Two Steps Back?’, [2017] 111 AJIL Unbound 434, 2018
  • Alison L Young, S Douglas-Scott, N Hatzis, ‘The Constitutional Implications of Brexit’, [2017] European Public Law 757, Edward Elgar Publishing
  • Alison L Young, Gavin Phillipson, ‘Would use of the prerogative to denounce the ECHR "frustrate"the Human Rights Act? Lessons from Miller.’, (2017) Public Law (Nov Sup) 150
  • Alison L Young, ‘R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union: Thriller or Vanilla?’, [2017] ELJ 280
  • Alison L Young, Graham Gee, ‘Regaining Sovereignty?: Brexit, the UK Parliament and the Common Law’, (2016) 22 European Public Law 131
  • Alison L Young, ‘Will you, Won't you, Will you join the Deference Dance?’, (2014) OJLS 375
  • Alison L Young, R Rawlings, P Leyland, ‘The Rule of Law in the United Kingdom: Formal or Substantive’, (2012) 6 International Constitutional Law 259, Oxford University Press
  • Alison L Young, ‘Is Dialogue working under the Human Rights Act?’, [2011] PL 773
  • Alison L Young, ‘Sovereignty: Demise, Afterlife or Partial Resurrection?’, (2011) 9 ICON 163
  • Alison L Young, ‘Deference, Dialogue and the Search for Legitimacy’, [2010] OJLS 815
  • Alison L Young, ‘In Defence of Due Deference’, (2009) 72 MLR 554
  • Alison L Young, ‘Human Rights, Horizontality and the Public/Private Divide: Towards a Holistic Approach’, (2009) 2 UCL Human Rights Law Review 159
  • Alison L Young, ‘Hunting Sovereignty: Jackson v Attorney General’, [2006] PL 187
  • Alison L Young, ‘A Peculiarly British Protection of Human Rights’, (2005) 65 MLR 858
  • Alison L Young, ‘The Charter, Constitution and Human Rights: is this the Beginning or the End for Human Rights Protections by Community law?’, (2005) 11 European Public Law 219
  • Alison L Young, ‘Ghaidan v Godin-Mendoza: Avoiding the Deference Trap’, [2005] PL 23
  • Alison L Young, N W Barber, ‘The Rise of Prospective Henry VIII Clauses and their Implications for Sovereignty’, [2003] PL 112
  • Alison L Young, ‘Remedial and Substantive Horizontality: the Common Law and Douglas v Hello! Ltd’, [2002] PL 232
  • Alison L Young, ‘Judicial Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act 1998’, (2001) 61 CLJ 53
  • Alison L Young, ‘Fact, Opinion and the Human Rights Act 1998: Does English law need to modify its definition of 'statements of opinion' to ensure compliance with Article 10 ECHR?’, (2000) 20 1 OJLS 89
  • Alison L Young, ‘Review of 'Key Ideas in Law: The Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers' by Jack Beatson.’, (2022) 81 CLJ 673-676
  • Alison L Young, ‘M Gordon: Parliamentary Sovereignty in the UK Constitution’, [2016] PL 367
  • Alison L Young, ‘Hiebert and Kelly; Parliamentary Bills of Rights: The Experience of New Zealand and the United Kingdom’, [2015] 63 American Journal of Comparative Law 810
  • Alison L Young, ‘K Ewing, Bonfire of the Liberties’, (2010) 6 European Human Rights Law Review 659
  • Alison L Young, ‘Protecting Rights without a Bill of Rights: Institutional Performance and Reform in Australia’, [2007] PL 846
  • Alison L Young, ‘Democracy Through Law’, [2006] PL 873
  • Alison L Young, ‘The British Constitution in the Twentieth Century’, (2005) 121 LQR 168
  • Alison L Young, ‘Courts and Political Institutions: a Comparative View’, [2003] PL 434
  • Alison L Young, ‘A Theory of Deference in Administrative Law: Basis, Application and Scope’, [2000] PL 898
  • Alison L Young, ‘Making Rights Real: The Human Rights Act in its First Decade’, (2000) 68 CLJ 473