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Format:
Paperback
200 pp.
156 mm x 234 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199274727

Publication date:
September 2004

Imprint: OUP UK

The Idea of Public Law

Martin Loughlin

This book offers an answer to the question: what is public law? It suggests that an adequate explanation can only be given once public law is recognized to be an autonomous discipline, with its own distinctive methods and tasks.

Martin Loughlin defends this claim by identifying the conceptual foundations of the public law: governing, politics, representation, sovereignty, constituent power, and rights. By explicating these basic elements of the subject, he seeks not only to lay bare its method but also to present a novel account of the idea of public law.

Readership : Advanced students and scholars in public law; political theorists and students of political theory. Also the relatively small number of barristers and judges who specialise in public law.

1. Introduction
2. Governing
3. Politics
4. Representation
5. Sovereignty
6. Constituent Power
7. Rights
8. Method
9. The Pure Theory of Public Law
Bibliography
Index

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Martin Loughlin is Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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Special Features

A completely new theoretical account of the idea of public law
Presents the argument that public law must be seen as a form of political discourse