This collection of eighteen key essays from jurists, political theorists and public law political scientists, explores the role law plays in the political syste

The rule of law is frequently invoked in political debate, yet rarely defined with any precision. Some employ it as a synonym for democracy, others for the subo

Prompted by the events following the 2016 referendum on EU membership and written during the COVID-19 pandemic by one of the leading public lawyers of our day,

Prompted by the events following the 2016 referendum on EU membership and written during the COVID-19 pandemic by one of the leading public lawyers of our day,

This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been