The Foundations and Future of Public Law: Essays in Honour of Paul Craig
Elizabeth Fisher, Jeff King, and Alison Young
Abstract
Public law in the United Kingdom and the European Union has undergone seismic changes over the last forty years. Scholars thus spend much time at the frontiers of the subject, responding rapidly to new developments and providing guidance to scholars, legislators, and judges for future directions. In these circumstances, there is rarely a chance to reflect upon the implications of these changes for the fundamentals of public law and how those fundamentals relate to one another. In this collection, inspired by the work of leading EU and public law scholar Paul Craig, leading figures in UK and EU ... More
Public law in the United Kingdom and the European Union has undergone seismic changes over the last forty years. Scholars thus spend much time at the frontiers of the subject, responding rapidly to new developments and providing guidance to scholars, legislators, and judges for future directions. In these circumstances, there is rarely a chance to reflect upon the implications of these changes for the fundamentals of public law and how those fundamentals relate to one another. In this collection, inspired by the work of leading EU and public law scholar Paul Craig, leading figures in UK and EU public law address this complex and nuanced interrelationship between the foundations and futures of EU and UK public law. The chapters focus on six building blocks of public law: theory, case law, legislation, institutions, procedures, and constitutions. Overall these chapters make clear that the interrelationship between foundations and futures is a profoundly important one. As scholars and lawyers we ignore this at our peril.
Keywords:
public law,
EU law,
constitutions,
administrative law,
courts,
legislation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2020 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198845249 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: June 2020 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198845249.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Elizabeth Fisher, editor
Professor of Environmental Law, Corpus Christi College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford
Jeff King, editor
Professor of Law, Faculty of Laws, University College London
Alison Young, editor
Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge
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