Searching for the state in British legal thought
Subtitle: competing conceptions of the public sphere
By: Janet McLean
Series: Cambridge studies in constitutional law
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge ; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781107022485
Subjects: Politics and government; Philosophy; Law; The State
Description: "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, Griffiith, Michell and Hayek in the context of both legal doctrine and broader intellectual movements". -- BACKCOVER.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Searching for the state; title: From state as official to state as machine : unifying political will; title: Sovereign, state and corporation : political theory and analytical jurisprudence; title: Civil society: the english fellowships, the state, and the origins of welfare; title: The private life of the state : the crown and the public sphere; title: Public law without a state : the new administrative justice; title: No rights against the state : government wrongdoing and the common law; title: Privatization, deregulation and reconceiving of the state; title: Rights against the state.