Ashes and Sparks: Essays On Law and Justice
"The best book I've read so far this year... You could have no interest in the law and read [this] book for pure intellectual delight, for the exquisite, finely balanced prose, the prickly humor, the knack of artful quotation and an astonishing historical grasp. A novelist could be jealous."- Ian McEwanNovelist"Cambridge University Press has done a great service to constitutional scholarship by republishing the elegant essays of a lawyer who has been at the cutting edge of civil liberty law for the past half century ... Sedley's life is both inspiration and testament to changing the legal light bulb to give off a brighter glow - as is this first book"- Geoffrey RobertsNew Statesman"With an impeccable literary style and a nice turn of phrase... it is easy to see why  [Sedley] is so greatly admired by his legal colleagues."- Michael KingTimes Higher Education"All in all, it is a remarkably informative book"-Jerold WaltmenBaylor University The British Politics Group Quarterly #149