The War against Law: What's Wrong with Common Good Constitutionalism

Name: The War against Law: What's Wrong with Common Good Constitutionalism
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781009864473
Price: 441.35 HKD
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Author: David Dyzenhaus
ISBN: 9781009864473

By David Dyzenhaus

New Arrival Cambridge University Press June 2026

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ISBN-13: 9781009864473
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: June 2026
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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In the UK, lawyers of the 'Judicial Power Project' – a group largely based at elite universities with close ties to far-right figures in the US and Europe – rail against 'judicial overreach'. In this groundbreaking book, David Dyzenhaus investigates the ideology of this group, contending that their true aim is to establish rule by an illiberal executive under the guise of benefitting the 'common good'.

Dyzenhaus makes a powerful argument that this is a fundamentally illiberal ideology with roots in authoritarian thought from the 1930s, one which threatens to take a wrecking ball to the rule of law and democracy. The War against Law offers a fascinating examination of these lawyers' ideas against the backdrop of the 2024 Rwanda Act, which required rendering asylum seekers in the UK to Rwanda. The debates both before and after the Act make concrete profound questions about the nature of the rule of law and its role in a liberal democracy.

Preface

Introduction

1. The new constitutional lobbyists

2. Parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law

3. A tale of a parallel universe

4. Heresy vs. heresy: debating the rule of law

5. Sovereignty, international law and the rule of law

6. The political theology of the parallel universe

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