Foundations of public law / Martin Loughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loughlin, Martin.

Contributor:

James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public law.

Public law--History.

Public law--Philosophy.

State, The.

Rule of law.

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 515 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Summary:

"Foundations of Public Law offers a distinctive, provocative theory of public law, building on the views first outlined in The Idea of Public Law (OUP, 2003). The theory aims to identify the essential character of public law, explain its particular modes of operation, and specify its unique task. Public law is conceived broadly as a type of law that comes into existence as a consequence of the secularization, rationalization and positivization of the medieval idea of fundamental law. Formed as a result of the changes that give birth to the modern state, public law establishes the authority and legitimacy of modern governmental ordering. Public law today is a universal phenomenon, but its origins are European. Part I of the book examines the conditions of its formation, showing how much the concept borrowed from the refined debates of medieval jurists. Part II then examines the nature of public law. Drawing on a line of juristic inquiry that developed from the late-sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries - extending from Bodin, Althusius, Lipsius, Grotius, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke and Pufendorf to the later works of Montesquieu, Rousseau, Kant, Fichte, Smith and Hegel - it presents an account of public law as a special type of political reason. The remaining three Parts unpack the core elements of this concept: state, constitution, and government. By taking this broad approach to the subject, Professor Loughlin shows how, rather than being viewed as a limitation on power, law is better conceived as a means by which public power is generated. And by explaining the way that these core elements of state, constitution and government were shaped respectively by the technological, bourgeois, and disciplinary revolutions of the 16th-19th centuries, he reveals a concept of public law of considerable ambiguity, complexity and resilience"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note:

Introduction: Rediscovering Public Law

<strong>Part I: Origins </strong>

1. Medieval Origins

2. The Birth of Public Law

<strong>Part II: Formation </strong>

3. The Architecture of Public Law

4. The Science of Political Right - I

5. The Science of Political Right - II

6. Political Jurisprudence

<strong>Part III: State </strong>

7. The Concept of the State

8. The Constitution of the State

9. State Formation

<strong>Part IV: Constitution </strong>

10. The Constitutional Contract

11. Rechtsstaat, The Rule of Law, L'Etat de droit

12. Constitutional Rights

<strong>Part V: Government </strong>

13. The Prerogatives of Government

14. Potentia

15. The New Architecture of Public Law.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780199256853

0199256853

OCLC:

610466946

Publisher Number:

99939544310