The Common Law Constitution

For the 2013 Hamlyn Lectures, Sir John Laws explored the constitutional balance between law and government in the United Kingdom.

John Laws (Author)

9781107434653, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 17 July 2014

108 pages
21.6 x 13.7 x 0.7 cm, 0.15 kg

For the 2013 Hamlyn Lectures, Sir John Laws explored the constitutional balance between law and government in the United Kingdom. He argues that the unifying principle of the constitution is the common law and that its distinctive method has endowed the British State with profoundly beneficial effects, before examining two contemporary threats to the constitutional balance: extremism and the effect of Europe-made laws on the domestic English system.

1. The common law and state power
2. The common law and extremism
3. The common law and Europe.

Subject Areas: Constitutional & administrative law [LND]