Searching for the State in British Legal Thought
Competing Conceptions of the Public Sphere
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- Author: Janet McLean, University of Dundee
- Date Published: July 2015
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- isbn: 9781107536364
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Janet McLean explores how the common law has personified the state and how those personifications affect and reflect the state's relationship to bureaucracy, sovereignty and civil society, the development of public law norms, the expansion and contraction of the public sphere with nationalization and privatization, state responsibility and human rights. Treating legal thought as a variety of political thought, she discusses writers such as Austin, Maitland, Dicey, Laski, Robson, Hart, Griffith, Mitchell and Hayek in the context of both legal doctrine and broader intellectual movements.
Read more- Sets jurisprudential debates in a wider social, political and historical context, thereby providing more than just an analytical account of the subject
- Provides modern public lawyers with both an historical and a political perspective
- Treats legal thought as a variety of political thought, thus offering modern scholars of political thought a legal perspective which is frequently missing
Awards
- Winner of the 2013 J. F. Northey Memorial Book Award from the New Zealand Law Foundation
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- Date Published: July 2015
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107536364
- length: 346 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Searching for the state in the idea of the crown
2. From the state as official to the state as machine: the nineteenth-century development of bureaucracy
3. The state as sovereign and the state as corporation: Austin and Hart in political context
4. Civil society: the English fellowships and the state
5. The private life of the state: the crown and the public sphere
6. A public law without a state: the political commitments of the new administrative law
7. No rights against the state: government wrongdoing and the law
8. Privatisation, deregulation and reconceiving the state
9. (Human) rights against the state
10. Prospectus.
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