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Law and Constitutional Change

Name: Law and Constitutional Change
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009797740
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Author: David Capper; Conor McCormick; Norma Dawson
ISBN: 9781009797740

Edited by David Capper · Conor McCormick · Norma Dawson

Cambridge University Press October 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781009797740
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: October 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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A collection of some of the best papers presented at the 25th British Legal History Conference at Queen's University Belfast in July 2022, Law and Constitutional Change examines the role that law plays when countries experience a major constitutional upheaval. It examines the interaction of law and politics in history across different legal jurisdictions with different legal traditions.

The theme of the conference was 'Law and Constitutional Change' and was inspired by the decade of anniversaries in Ireland (2012–2022) commemorating events from a century ago that began with the Home Rule Crisis and ended with the partition of the country. It studies the changes that occurred at that time in a wider British and Irish as well as international context, with a view to deepening understanding of contemporary debates such as those surrounding Brexit and its longer-term implications.

Editors' introduction

David Capper, Conor Mccormick and N. M. Dawson

1. 'Another sort of treason': the troubled home of husband-killing in late-medieval common law

Gwen Seabourne

2. The origins of the statute of uses

A. J. Hannay

3. Examining the doctrine of art and part in early modern Scotland

Stephanie Dropuljic

4. The beginnings of judicial review

John Baker

5. The aspirations of James Stuart

Ian Ward

6. A British common law? Public law after the 1707 union between England and Scotland

Robert Brett Taylor

7. Quo warranto and the borough office holder 1700–1791

Kevin Costello

8. Land, credit and the constitution: debtor protections and Catholic rights in eighteenth-century Ireland

Julia Rudolph

9. Constitutional change, law, and Grattan's parliament

Maike Schwiddessen

10. Sir John Ross Bt: the last Lord chancellor of Ireland 1921–1922

Richard Mcbride

11. Lord Birkenhead, ambiguity and the Irish border: lawyers and the Anglo-Irish treaty

Colum Kenny

12. The British-Irish negotiations on the drafting of the 1922 constitution of the Irish free state

Thomas Mohr

13. No way to run a railroad: the decline of the great Northern railway of Ireland after partition

C. R. G. Murray

14. Fortuna fortes Adiuvat: the importance of individuals in Estonian constitutional change

Merike Ristikivi, Katre Luhamaa and Karin Sein

15. First nations constitutional recognition in Australia: addressing foundational failures of rule of law

Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis

16. The rise and fall of the UK human rights act

Brenda Hale

17. Courting the past: reconstructing Ireland's lost legal records, c.1300–1922

Peter Crooks, Timothy Murtagh and Ciarán Wallace with Joel Herman

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