Key Ideas in Constitutional Law (Key Ideas in Law) - Softcover

David Feldman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1509910026 ISBN 13: 9781509910021

Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK), 2025

Synopsis

This book examines how constitutions, and the UK's in particular, emerge from disagreement and power tussles.

Tensions arise over both distribution and use of powers. A constitution seeks a degree of stability, but also adjusts dynamically to social, economic, military and political events and changing expectations of the state and what makes it legitimate. To show how these processes work, the book illustrates how different kinds of power are allocated between state institutions at different levels of government, how they are distributed between institutions at the same level of government, and some of the values which animate the relationships between institutions. To understand the nature of constitutional practices and rules, the book compares the UK's constitution with aspects of other countries' constitutional accommodations.

It is hoped that people embarking on the study or practice of law, politics or government will find this useful, and that more established practitioners, scholars and general readers will also find it interesting.

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About the Author

Over more than 50 years, David Feldman has studied and taught constitutional law in the UK and Australia, worked as a legal adviser in the UK’s Houses of Parliament and sat as a Judge of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is currently Rouse Ball Professor Emeritus of English Law, University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Manchester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK)
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1509910026
• ISBN 13: 9781509910021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184