The Foundations and Future of Public Law Essays in Honour of Paul Craig

by Fisher, Elizabeth; King, Jeff; Young, Alison

• ISBN13: 9780198845249
• ISBN10: 0198845243
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2020-05-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Elizabeth Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law, Corpus Christi College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her 2007 book, Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism, won the 2008 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2008. She is also author of Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction and co-author of Fisher, Lange, and Scotford, Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials. She is General Editor of Journal of Environmental Law, Reviews Editor of the OJLS, and has served as the editor of the Legislation and Reports Section of the Modern Law Review.

Jeff King is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is the co-editor of Current Legal Problems, formerly the Co-Editor of the UK Constitutional Law Blog, and sits on the editorial committee of Public Law. His Judging Social Rights won the 2014 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. He is presently an Executive Member of the UK Constitutional Law Association, and member of the UK Study of Parliament Group. In 2017 he was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law.

Alison Young is currently the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College. She is an executive member of the UK Constitutional Law Association and co-editor of the UKCLA blog. She is also on the editorial Board of European Public Law. She is the author of Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution, for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2013-15, and Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Why Fundamentals Matter, Elizabeth Fisher, Jeff King and Alison Young
Part One: Theory
2. The State and Other Polities; the Diverse Objects of Public Law, Neil Walker
3. The Changing Authority Bases of Administrative Law, Janet McLean
4. Theory: A Commentary, Nick Barber
Part Two: Legislation
5. The Province of Delegated Legislation, Jeff King
6. Legislating and Adjudicating: Where and How to Strike the Balance, Eleanor Sharpston QC
7. Legislation: A Commentary, Lord Justice Philip Sales
Part Three: Case Law
8. Connecting National Courts and the ECJ, Gr?inne de B?rca
9. Public Law Cases and the Common Law: A Unique Relationship?, Alison Young
10. Case Law: A Commentary, Timothy Endicott
Part Four: The Administrative State: Institutions and Accountability
11. Beyond Probability: The Accountability of Data Possibility, Deirdre Curtin
12. The Open Road? Navigating Administrative Institutions and The Failed Promise of Administrative Law, Elizabeth Fisher
13. Institutions and Accountability: A Commentary, Anne Davies
Part Five: The Administrative State: Process and Procedure
14. Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure, Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings
15. Administrative Discretion in EU Law: Judicial and Administrative Review, Joana Mendes
16. Process and Procedure: A Commentary, Mark Freedland
Part Six: Constitutions and Rights
17. The Challenges of Multi-Layered Constitutionalism, Cheryl Saunders
18. The Transformation of Politics and Democracy in and Beyond the State, Miguel Maduro
19. Constitutions and Rights: A Commentary, Sionaidh Douglas-Scott
Conclusion
20. The Fundamentals, Paul Craig