Professor John Allison

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Queens' College
  • Professor of Public Law and Comparative Historical Jurisprudence
Professor John Allison

Contact

Location

  • Fisher Building, T4, Queens' College

Research

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

Research centres: Centre for Public Law (CPL)

Publications

Selected publications

The Historical Constitution Chapter 1 August 2025 In An Introduction to Common Law (eds Sir John Baker and Yasunori Kasai), University of Tokyo Press John Allison Current Legal Fictions in Public Law Journal article 1 October 2024 (2024) 77 Current Legal Problems 413-444 John Allison The Historical Constitution Chapter 1 August 2024 In An Introduction to Common Law (eds Sir John Baker and Yasunori Kasai), Bibliotheca Wisteriana John Allison History to Understand, and History to Reform, English Public Law Chapter 1 September 2023 In Researching Public Law in Common Law Systems (eds P. Daly and J. Tomlinson), Edward Elgar Publishing John Allison A. V. Dicey, The Law of the Constitution, revised pbk. edition Book 1 June 2019 Oxford University Press John Allison A. V. Dicey, Comparative Constitutionalism, revised pbk. edition Book 1 May 2019 Oxford University Press John Allison Minimising Magna Carta and Modernising Exposition of the Rule of Law in the English Historical Constitution Chapter 1 September 2018 In Handbook on the Rule of Law (eds C. May and A. Winchester), Edward Elgar Publishing John Allison, C. May, A. Winchester Turning the Rule of Law into an English Constitutional Idea Chapter 1 September 2018 In Handbook on the Rule of Law (eds C. May and A. Winchester), Edward Elgar Publishing John Allison The Westminster Parliament's Formal Sovereignty in Britain and Europe from a Historical Perspective Journal article 1 July 2018 (2017) 34/II Giornale di Storia Costituzionale 57-71 John Allison History to Understand, and History to Reform, English Public Law Chapter 1 September 2017 In Law and History, Vol. II (eds N. Doe and R. Sandberg), Routledge John Allison
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