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Searching for the State in British Legal Thought : Competing Conceptions of the Public Sphere / Janet McLean.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law ; 4 | Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law ; 4.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781139136761 (ebook)
Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:
  • 320.10941 23
LOC classification:
  • KD640 .M39 2012
Online resources: 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.
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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.

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