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Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Human Rights A Critical Introduction
By
Ian Loveland
Description
* Covers all
the core elements of both the Constitutional and Administrative law
syllabi for LLB degrees and includes substantial coverage of human
rights issues
* Makes sense
of the basic principles of administrative law by emphasising their
constitutional law roots, thus locating administrative law in its
broader context
* Draws
heavily on historical sources and on ideas from political science and
political theory, providing students with no prior knowledge of the
subject with helpful background information
* The Online
Resource Centre provides a fully linked online casebook to accompany
the main text which contains edited versions of leading relevant
cases, updated twice annually.
New to this edition
* Incorporates
discussion of the key constitutional reform initiatives since 2000
and of important new judicial decisions
* Includes
detailed analysis of recent major judicial decisions
* Includes a
substantially amended and expanded analysis of the effet utile
jurisprudence of the European Court of Justice
* Builds on
expanded contents of the third edition, continuing to cover the
traditional contents of LLB constitutional and administrative law
courses, whilst also taking into account the Human Rights Act 1998
and all the changes that have taken place since 2000
* Includes a
much expanded on-line casebook
The fourth edition
of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Human Rights covers all
of the core elements of both the Constitutional and Administrative
Law syllabi, making it an ideal text for use on the LLB or CPE. It
also includes substantial coverage of human rights issues.
Written in an
engaging narrative style, the book draws heavily from the political
science, historical and comparative dimensions of the subject, thus
locating it more firmly in its wider context than other available
texts.
Online Resource Centre
The Online
Resource Centre provides a fully linked online casebook to accompany
the main text which contains edited versions of leading relevant
cases, updated twice annually.
Readership:
Undergraduates and postgraduates taking courses in public law. This
book is suitable as a set text for courses that address only
constitutional law and for those which treat constitutional law,
administrative law and civil liberties as a single, combined topic.
Contents
1. Defining the
Constitution
2. Parliamentary
Sovereignty
3. The Rule of Law
and the Separation of Powers
4. The Royal
Prerogative
5. The House of
Commons
6. The House of
Lords
7. The Electoral
System
8. Parliamentary
Privilege
9. Constitutional
Conventions
10. Local
Government - 1: Conventional Pluralism?
11. Local
Government 2: Legal Authoritarianism?
12. The European
Economic Community 1957-1986
13. The European
Community After the Single European Act
14. Substantive
Grounds of Judicial Review: Illegality, Irrationality and
Proportionality
15. Procedural
Grounds of Judicial Review
16. Order 53 and
the Application for Judicial Review
17. Locus Standi
18. Human Rights
and Civil Liberties I: Traditional Perspectives
19. Human Rights
and Civil Liberties II: Emergent Principles
20. Human Rights
and Civil Liberties III: New Substantive Grounds of Review
21. Human Rights
and Civil Liberties IV: the Human Rights Act 1998
22. Scots and
Welsh Devolution
23. Conclusion -
Entrenchment of Fundamental Law Revisited
Bibliography
Index
Authors, editors, and contributors
Ian Loveland,
Professor of Law, City University
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