Publications by Professor TRS Allan

Full list of publications by Professor TRS Allan.

  • TRS Allan, ‘The Law in Quest of Integrity: Interpretation, Invention and Internal Critique’, in New Essays on the Fish-Dworkin Debate (eds Thomas Bustamante and Margaret Martin), Hart Publishing, 2023
  • TRS Allan, ‘Constitutional Rights, Moral Judgement, and the Rule of Law’, in Taking Law Seriously: Essays in Honour of Peter Cane (eds James Goudkamp, Mark Lunney & Leighton McDonald), Hart Publishing, 2022
  • TRS Allan, Lisa Burton Crawford, Patrick Emerton, Dale Smith, ‘Political Obligation and Public Law’, in Law Under a Democratic Constitution (eds Lisa Burton Crawford, Patrick Emerton & Dale Smith), Hart Publishing, 2019
  • TRS Allan, Ron Levy, Hoi Kong, Graeme Orr, Jeff King, ‘The Deliberative Constitution at Common Law’, in The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism, eds Ron Levy, Hoi Kong, Graeme Orr and Jeff King, 2018
  • TRS Allan, ‘Justice, Integrity, and the Common Law’, in Dignity in the Legal and Political Philosophy of Ronald Dworkin (eds Salman Khurshid, Lokendra Malik and Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco), Oxford University Press, 2018
  • TRS Allan, Martin Borowski, Stanley L. Paulson, Jan-Reinard Sieckmann, ‘In Defence of Radbruch's Formula: Injustice, Interpretation, and Invalidity’, in Rechtsphilosophie und Grundrechtstheorie, eds. Martin Borowski, Stanley L. Paulson, and Jan-Reinard Sieckmann, Mohr Siebeck, 2017
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Rule of Law as the Rule of Private Law’, in Private Law and the Rule of Law (eds Lisa M Austin & Dennis Klimchuk), Oxford University Press, 2015
  • TRS Allan, ‘Freedom, Equality, Legality’, in The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat) (eds James R Silkenat, James E Hickey Jr, & Peter D Barenboim), Springer, 2014
  • TRS Allan, Grant Huscroft, Bradley W. Miller, Gregoire Webber, Grant Huscroft, Bradley W. Miller, Gregoire Webber, ‘Democracy, Legality, and Proportionality’, in Proportionality and the Rule of Law: Rights, Justification, Reasoning, 2014
  • TRS Allan, ‘Accountability to Law’, in Accountability in the Contemporary Constitution (eds Nicholas Bamforth & Peter Leyland), Oxford University Press, 2013
  • TRS Allan, ‘Constitutional Rights and the Rule of Law’, in Institutionalized Reason: The Jurisprudence of Robert Alexy (eds Matthias Klatt), Oxford University Press, 2012
  • TRS Allan, ‘Constitutional Justice and the Concept of Law’, in Expounding the Constitution: Essays in Constitutional Theory (eds Grant Huscroft), 2008
  • TRS Allan, ‘Text, Context, and Constitution: The Common Law as Public Reason’, in Common Law Theory (eds Douglas E Edlin), 2007
  • TRS Allan, ‘Common Law Reason and the Limits of Judicial Deference’, in The Unity of Public Law (eds David Dyzenhaus), Hart Publishing, 2004
  • TRS Allan, ‘Common Law Constitutionalism and Freedom of Speech’, in Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Information: Essays in Honour of Sir David Williams (eds Jack Beatson & Yvonne Cripps), Clarendon Press, 2000
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Rule of Law as the Foundation of Judicial Review’, in Judicial Review and the Constitution (eds Christopher Forsyth), Hart Publishing, 2000
  • TRS Allan, ‘Fairness, Equality, Rationality: Constitutional Theory and Judicial Review’, in The Golden Metwand and the Crooked Cord: Essays in Honour of Sir William Wade QC (eds Christopher Forsyth & Ivan Hare), Clarendon Press, 1998
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Common Law as Constitution: Fundamental Rights and First Principles’, in Courts of Final Jurisdiction: The Mason Court in Australia (eds Cheryl Saunders), Federation Press, 1996
  • TRS Allan, ‘Equality and Moral Independence: Private Morality and Public Law’, in A Special Relationship? American Influences on Public Law in the UK (eds Ian Loveland), Clarendon Press, 1996
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Concept of Fair Trial’, in Criminal Justice (Archiv fur Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie, Beiheft 63, 1995) (eds Elspeth Attwooll & David Goldberg), 1995
  • TRS Allan, ‘Fairness, Truth and Silence: The Criminal Trial and the Judge's Exclusionary Discretion’, in Jurisprudence: Cambridge Essays (eds Hyman Gross & Ross Harrison), Clarendon Press, 1992
  • TRS Allan, ‘Law, Reason, and Justice: A Defence of the Declaratory Theory of Judicial Decision’, (2025) Jurisprudence (online 11 March 2025)
  • TRS Allan, ‘Constitutionalism at Common Law: The Rule of Law and Judicial Review’, [2023] CLJ 236
  • TRS Allan, ‘Law as a Branch of Morality: The Unity of Practice and Principle’, 65 American Journal of Jurisprudence (2020) 1 - 17
  • TRS Allan, ‘Why the Law is What it Ought to Be’, (2020) 11(4) Jurisprudence 574 - 96
  • TRS Allan, ‘Principle, Practice, and Precedent: Vindicating Justice, According to Law’, [2018] CLJ 269 - 297
  • TRS Allan, ‘Constitutional Rights and Judicial Review’, (2018) 9 Jurisprudence 138 - 45, 2017
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Moral Unity of Public Law’, (2017) 67 UTLJ 1 - 30
  • TRS Allan, ‘Law, Democracy, and Constitutionalism: Reflections on Evans v Attorney General’, [2016] CLJ 38 - 61
  • TRS Allan, ‘Interpretation, Injustice, and Integrity’, (2016) 36 OJLS 58 - 82, 2015
  • TRS Allan, ‘Questions of Legality and Legitimacy: Form and Substance in British Constitutionalism’, Int J Constitutional Law (2011) 9(1): 155 - 62
  • TRS Allan, ‘Judicial Deference and Judicial Review: Legal Doctrine and Legal Theory’, (2011) 127 LQR 96 - 117
  • TRS Allan, ‘Deference, Defiance, and Doctrine: Defining the Limits of Judicial Review’, (2010) 60 U of Toronto LJ 41 - 59
  • TRS Allan, ‘Law, Justice and Integrity: The Paradox of Wicked Laws’, (2009) 29 OJLS 705-28
  • TRS Allan, ‘In Defence of the Common Law Constitution: Unwritten Rights as Fundamental Law’, (2009) 22 CJLJ 187 - 203
  • TRS Allan, ‘Rule of Law’, New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP, 2008), 1037 - 38
  • TRS Allan, ‘Liberal Democracy’, New Oxford Companion to Law (OUP, 2008), 731 - 32
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Rule of Law as Liberal Justice’, (2006) 56 U of Toronto LJ 283 - 90
  • TRS Allan, ‘Parliament's Will and the Justice of the Common Law: The Human Rights Act in Constitutional Perspective’, (2006) 59 CLP 27 - 50
  • TRS Allan, ‘Human Rights and Judicial Review: A Critique of 'Due Deference'’, [2006] CLJ 671 - 95
  • TRS Allan, ‘Legislative Supremacy and Legislative Intention: Interpretation, Meaning, and Authority’, [2004] CLJ 685 - 711
  • TRS Allan, ‘Legislative Supremacy and Legislative Intent: A Reply to Professor Craig’, (2004) 24 OJLS 563 - 83
  • TRS Allan, ‘Doctrine and Theory in Administrative Law: An Elusive Quest for the Limits of Jurisdiction’, [2003] Public Law 429 - 54
  • TRS Allan, ‘Constitutional Dialogue and the Justification of Judicial Review’, (2003) 23 OJLS 563 - 84
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Constitutional Foundations of Judicial Review: Conceptual Conundrum or Interpretative Inquiry?’, [2002] CLJ 87 - 125
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Politics of the British Constitution: A Response to Professor Ewing’, [2000] PL 374 - 83
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Rule of Law as the Rule of Reason: Consent and Constitutionalism’, (1999) 115 LQR 221 - 44
  • TRS Allan, ‘Procedural Fairness and the Duty of Respect’, (1998) 18 OJLS 497 - 515
  • TRS Allan, ‘Rule of Law (Rechtsstaat)’, Encyclopaedia of Philosophy (Routledge 1998) 8, 388 - 391
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Rule of Law’, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Macmillan 1998) 3, 369 - 381
  • TRS Allan, ‘Fuller, Lon Luvois (1902 - 1978)’, New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law (Macmillan 1998) 2, 179 - 82
  • TRS Allan, ‘Parliamentary Sovereignty: Law, Politics, and Revolution’, (1997) 113 LQR 443 - 52
  • TRS Allan, ‘Citizenship and Obligation: Civil Disobedience and Civil Dissent’, [1996] CLJ 89 - 121
  • TRS Allan, ‘Public Interest Immunity and Ministers' Responsibilities’, [1993] Crim LR 660 - 68
  • TRS Allan, ‘Justice and Fairness in Law's Empire’, [1993] CLJ 64 - 88
  • TRS Allan, ‘Discovery of Cabinet Documents: The Northern Land Council Case’, (1992) 14 Sydney LR 230 - 40
  • TRS Allan, ‘Disclosure of Journalists' Sources, Civil Disobedience and the Rule of Law’, [1991] CLJ 131 - 62
  • TRS Allan, ‘Constitutional Rights and Common Law’, (1991) 11 OJLS 453 - 80
  • TRS Allan, ‘Freedom of Speech and Judicial Review’, (1991) 141 NLJ 683 - 85
  • TRS Allan, ‘Australian Constitutionalism: Legitimacy, Will and Reason’, (1988) 51 MLR 258 - 67
  • TRS Allan, ‘Dworkin and Dicey: The Rule of Law as Integrity’, (1988) 8 OJLS 266 - 77
  • TRS Allan, ‘Pragmatism and Theory in Public Law’, (1988) 104 LQR 422 - 47
  • TRS Allan, ‘Legal Privilege and the Principle of Fairness in the Criminal Trial’, [1987] Crim LR 449 - 59
  • TRS Allan, ‘Law, Convention, Prerogative: Reflections Prompted by the Canadian Constitutional Case’, [1986] CLJ 305 - 20
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Limits of Parliamentary Sovereignty’, [1985] PL 614 - 29
  • TRS Allan, ‘Abuse of Power and Public Interest Immunity: Justice, Rights and Truth’, (1985) 101 LQR 200 - 216
  • TRS Allan, ‘Legislative Supremacy and the Rule of Law: Democracy and Constitutionalism’, [1985] CLJ 111 - 43
  • TRS Allan, ‘A Right to Pornography?’, (1983) 3 OJLS 376 - 81
  • TRS Allan, ‘Parliamentary Sovereignty: Lord Denning's Dexterous Revolution’, (1983) 3 OJLS 22 - 33
  • TRS Allan, ‘Amanda Tyler, Habeas Corpus: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2021)’, Society (1 October 2021)
  • TRS Allan, ‘Dimensions of Dignity: The Theory and Practice of Modern Constitutional Law (Cambridge University Press, 2016) by Jacob Weinrib’, (2018) 68 UTLJ 312 - 318
  • TRS Allan, ‘Forms Liberate: Reclaiming the Jurisprudence of Lon L Fuller, by Kristen Rundle (Hart, Oxford, 2012)’, [2013] CLJ 753 - 56, 2014
  • TRS Allan, ‘Political Constitutionalism: A Republican Defence of the Constitutionality of Democracy, by Richard Bellamy (CUP, 2007)’, [2008] CLJ 423 - 426
  • TRS Allan, ‘Our Republican Constitution, by Adam Tomkins (Hart, Oxford, 2005)’, [2006] PL 172 - 175
  • TRS Allan, ‘The Ultimate Rule of Law, by David Beatty (OUP, 2004)’, (2005) 16 KCLJ 229 - 34
  • TRS Allan, ‘Does the United Kingdom Still have a Constitution?, by Anthony King (Sweet & Maxwell, London, 2001)’, (2002) 118 LQR 154
  • TRS Allan, ‘Recrafting the Rule of Law: the Limits of Legal Order, by (ed) David Dyzenhaus (Hart, Oxford, 1999)’, [2000] PL 340