CPL Seminar: 'Our Post-war Public Law Journey'

The Centre for Public Law is hosting a seminar to be given by Philip Joseph. He will speak at 5.30pm on Thursday 21 November in the Moot Court Room on "Our Post-war Public Law Journey".

This seminar traces the ‘rise of constitutionalism’ (as the late Robin Cooke termed it) in the common law jurisdictions in the post-war period. This movement identifies with the international human rights movement which gathered momentum in the years immediately following the second World War. This movement has witnessed the adoption of bills of rights throughout the common law jurisdictions, and the rise of the concept of the rule of law as a unifying principle of legality. Accompanying these developments has been the liberation of administrative law principles and the gradual erosion of traditional sovereignty doctrine. This seminar will draw these various strains together in mapping our post-war public law journey.

All Faculty Members and Visitors, PhD students and LLM Public Law students are welcome.

For more information contact Mark Elliott (mce1000@cam.ac.uk)