Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials

Author: Andrew Le Sueur; Maurice Sunkin; Jo Murkens
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199284191
Published In: August 2010
Format: Paperback , 960 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The authors, leading academics in the field, provide students with a thought-provoking and detailed analysis of the core issues relevant to students studying public law setting them in their political context.
Each chapter provides a clear textual account of the topics covered. The text is supported by an excellent range of extracts from a wide range of sources, such as academic writing and reports of parliamentary committees, as well as extracts from leading judgments.
Carefully designed learning features such as questions, discussion points and mini case studies bring life to the law and theoretical debates as well as helping to develop important analytical and interpretational skills.
The Online Resource Centre will provide students with extra material to support the case studies in the book, links to relevant material including home pages of the main institutions involved in the case studies (e.g a government department, parliamentary select committee, and campaign group), and reports in the online news media.

Written by leading academics, this new Text, Cases, & Materials book on Public Law provides a thought-provoking and vivid account of one of the most interesting areas of the undergraduate law syllabus.

The authors have drawn on their substantial experience as teachers and researchers to write a book that will enable readers to acquire both a thorough knowledge of the practicalities of this area of law and an understanding of the theoretical and political debates. The authors explain the key principles of constitutional law and practice, drawing on extracts from a diverse range of materials, along with case studies designed to bring the subject alive. Throughout the book a wealth of learning features - such as questions, discussion points and summaries - are used to help students develop their knowledge and understanding of the issues.

The book is organised in four parts. Part 1, constitutional fundamentals, introduces the role of constitutions and core principles such the 'rule of law' and the protection of constitutional rights. Part 2, the executive function, focuses on the organisation and nature of government within the UK and the EU, and how executive power is held to account. Part 3 deals with legislation. It asks who makes legislation? It also examines the extent to which legislators in the UK and EU are accountable for the rules they generate. Part 4 concentrates on the role of the courts and tribunals to explore how disputes between individuals and public bodies are dealt with.

ONLINE RESOURCE CENTRE

The book is supported by an Online Resource Centre featuring updates on case law, legislation and academic commentary, a test bank of multiple choice questions, a glossary of key terms, extra material to support the case studies in the book, links to relevant material including home pages of the main institutions involved in the case studies (e.g a government department, parliamentary select committee, and campaign group) and reports in the online news media.

Readership: Suitable for undergraduate students taking a module in public law as part of their LLB course.

Part 1: Constitutional fundamentals

1: Getting started in public law

2: Legitimacy in the constitution: parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law

3: Distributing, separating and balancing power

4: Protecting human rights and civil liberties

5: Case study: reforming the Lord Chancellor

Part II: Executive functions
Introduction to Part II

6: Government and accountability in the UK

7: Exercise and control of executive power in the European Union

8: Prerogative powers and case study on the war prerogative

Part III: Legislative functions
Introduction to Part III

9: Primary legislation

10: Delegated legislation

11: European Union treaties and the legislative process

12: Case studies: what happens when the Commons and the Lords disagree

Part IV: Judicial and dispute resolution functions
Introduction to judicial and dispute resolution functions

13: Judges and courts

14: Administrative justice and tribunals

15: Judicial review

16: Human rights in the UK courts

17: European Union law in the UK courts

Andrew Le Sueur, Professor of Public Law in the Department of Law, Queen Mary, University of London,, Maurice Sunkin, Professor of Public Law and Socio-Legal Studies in the School of Law, University of Essex,, and Jo Murkens, Senior Lecturer in Law in the Department of Law, London School of Economics and Political Science,