Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845400992 ISBN 13: 9781845400996

Publisher: Imprint Academic, 2007

Synopsis

Law making is a primary function of government, and how well the three devolved UK legislatures exercise this function will be a crucial test of the whole devolution project. This book provides the first systematic study and authoritative data to start that assessment. It represents the fruits of a four-year collaboration between top constitutional lawyers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and leading researchers in UCL's Constitution Unit. The book opens with detailed studies of law making in the period 1999–2004 in the Scottish Parliament and the Assemblies in Wales and Northern Ireland, and how they interact with Westminster. Later contributions look at aspects of legislative partnership in the light of the UK's strongly asymmetric devolutionary development, and also explain the unexpected impact of devolution on the courts. Individual chapters focus on various constitutional aspects of law making, examining the interplay of continuity and change in political, legal and administrative practice, and the competing pressures for convergence and divergence between the different parliaments and assemblies. This book is essential reading for academics and students in law and in politics, and for anyone interested in the constitutional and legal aspects of UK devolution, not least the practitioners and policymakers in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Rawlings is Reader in Law at the LSE. He was Articles Editor of the Modern Law Review 1991-1996.

Review

"The work produced by the Constitution Unit is always of a very high standard. This book is no exception."

(Jean McFadden Scolag Legal Journal)

"A meticulously researched book."

(Jane Williams Planet)

Edition details

• Publisher: Imprint Academic
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845400992
• ISBN 13: 9781845400996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 338
• Editor: Hazell Robert, Rawlings Richard