Searching for the State in British Legal Thought Contributor(s): McLean, Janet (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107022487 ISBN-13: 9781107022485 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science - Law | Constitutional |
Dewey: 320.109 |
LCCN: 2012020436 |
Series: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law |
Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 346 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): McLean, Janet: - Janet McLean is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, and a public and administrative lawyer. |