Law and constitutional change / edited by David Capper, Conor McCormick, N.M. Dawson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Capper, David, editor.

McCormick, Conor, editor.

Dawson, Norma, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history--Political aspects--Ireland.

Constitutional history.

Constitutional history--Political aspects--Great Britain.

Constitutional history--Political aspects.

Law--Political aspects--Ireland--History.

Law.

Law--Political aspects--Great Britain--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"A collection of some of papers presented at the 25th British Legal History Conference at Queen's University Belfast in July 2022. This book examines the role that law plays when countries experience a major constitutional upheaval. It examines the interaction of law and politics in history across different legal jurisdictions with different legal traditions. The theme of the conference was 'Law and Constitutional Change' and was inspired by the decade of anniversaries in Ireland (2012–2023) commemorating events from a century ago that began with the Home Rule Crisis and ended with the partition of the country. It studies the changes that occurred at that time in a wider British and Irish as well as international context, with a view to deepening understanding of contemporary debates such as those surrounding Brexit and its longer-term implications. "-- Provided by the publisher.

Contents:

'Another Sort of Treason' : the Troubled Home of Husband-Killing in Late Medieval Common Law / Gwen Seabourne

The Origins of the Statute of Uses / A. J. Hannay

Examining the Doctrine of Art and Part in Early Modern Scotland / Stephanie Dropuljic

The Beginnings of Judicial Review / Sir John Baker

The Aspirations of James Stuart / Ian Ward

A British Common Law? : Public Law after the 1707 Union between England and Scotland / Robert Brett Taylor

Quo Warranto and the Borough Office Holder, 1700-1792 / Kevin Costello

Land, Credit, and the Constitution : Debtor Protections and Catholic Rights in Eighteenth-Century Ireland / Julia Rudolph

Constitutional Change, Law and Grattan's Parliament / Maike Schwiddessen

Sir John Ross Bt : the Last Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1921-1922 / Richard McBride

Lord Birkenhead, Ambiguity and the Irish Border : Lawyers and the Anglo-Irish Treaty / Colum Kenny

The British-Irish Negotiations on the Drafting of the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State / Thomas Mohr

No Way to Run a Railroad : the Decline of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland after Partition / C.R.G. Murray

Fortuna Fortes Adiuva : the Importance of Individuals in Estonian Constitutional Change / Merike Ristikivi, Katre Luhamaa, Karin Sein

First Nations Constitutional Recognition in Australia : Addressing Foundational Failures of Rule of Law / Gabrielle Appleby, Megan Davis

The Rise and Fall of the UK Human Rights Act / Brenda Hale

Courting the Past : Reconstructing Ireland's Lost Legal Records, circa 1300-1922 / Peter Crooks, Timothy Murtagh, Ciaran Wallace, Joel Herman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 1, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Law and constitutional change

ISBN:

9781009797733

1009797735

9781009797719

1009797719

OCLC:

1514458990

Publisher Number:

CIPO000210544

CIPO000214189

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access