Table of contents
Part 1: Introduction
1. Beginning at the Beginning: The Relationships between Politics and Law
David Feldman
Part 2: Lawyer-Politicians
2. Lawyers, MPs and Judges
Ross Cranston
3. Lawyers in the House of Commons
David Howarth
4. The Form and Language of Legislation
Alan Rodger
Part 3: Lawyers Advising Government
5. Legislation and Politics
Stephen Laws
6. Whitehall, Transparency, and the Law
David Seymour
7. The Role of Public International Lawyers in Government
Michael Wood
8. Government Legal Advisers through the Ethics Looking Glass
Matthew Windsor
Part 4: Politics and Legal Change
9. Law Reform in a Political Environment: The Work of the Law Commissions
Elizabeth Cooke and Hector MacQueen
10. Parliament Act 1911 in its Historical Context
Philip Norton
11. The Parliament Act 1949
Chris Ballinger
12. The Realities of the Parliament Act 1911
Daniel Greenberg
13. The Impact of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 on a Government's Management of its Legislative Timetable, on Parliamentary Procedure and on Legislative Drafting
Rhodri Walters
Part 5: Politics, the Constitution, and Beyond
14. International Law and Great Power Politics
Matthew Parish
15. Law and Democracy in a Human Rights Framework
Philip Sales
16. Politics, Law and Constitutional Moments in the UK
Dawn Oliver
17. Looking Back and Moving On
David Feldman