Searching for the state in British legal thought : competing conceptions of the public sphere

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Label

Searching for the state in British legal thought : competing conceptions of the public sphere

Title remainder

competing conceptions of the public sphere

Statement of responsibility

Janet McLean

Creator

• McLean, Janet, 1963-

Author

• McLean, Janet, 1963-

Subject

• Law -- Political aspects -- Great Britain
• Great Britain -- Politics and government
• State, The -- Philosophy
• Law -- Great Britain -- Philosophy

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• Cambridge studies in constitutional law, 4

Cataloging source

UkCbUP

Index

index present

LC call number

KD640

LC item number

.M39 2012

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

Cambridge studies in constitutional law

Series volume

4