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David Yuratich, Public Law: Principles to Practice (Oxford University Press 2024) §

An excellent book and the one the lectures lean on most in Autumn Term, though in the Spring Term other Law Trove texts cover some of our topics better.

Also via DOI: doi.org/10.1093/he/9780191881985.001.0001

Mark Elliott and Robert Thomas, Public law (5th edn, Oxford University Press 2024) §

In the Spring Term we will turn to Davis, Human Rights Law: Directions, and Elliott & Thomas, Public Law, for coverage of human rights and public order.

Jeffrey L. Jowell and Colm O'Cinneide (eds), The changing constitution (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2019) §

A. W. Bradley, K. D. Ewing and Christopher Knight, Constitutional and administrative law (17th edn, Pearson 2018) §

A little dated now

Alison L. Young and Colin Turpin, Turpin & Tomkins' British government and the constitution: text and materials (8th edn, Cambridge University Press 2021) §

Lisa Webley and Harriet Samuels, Complete public law: text, cases, and materials (6th edn, Oxford University Press 2025) §

Also via DOI: doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198921592.001.0001

John Stanton and Craig Prescott, Public law (4th edn, Oxford University Press 2025) §

Also via DOI: doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198929680.001.0001

Anne Dennett, Public Law Directions (3rd edn, Oxford University Press 2024) §

Timothy Andrew Orville Endicott, Administrative law (5th edn, Oxford University Press 2021) §

Also via DOI: doi.org/10.1093/he/9780192893567.001.0001

A. P. Le Sueur, Maurice Sunkin and Jo Eric Murkens, Public law: text, cases, and materials (6th edn, Oxford University Press 2026) §

Mark Elliott and Jason N. E. Varuhas, Administrative Law: Text and Materials (5th edn, Oxford University Press 2017) §

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Neil Parpworth, Constitutional and Administrative Law (13th edn, Oxford University Press 2025) §

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Thomas E. Webb, Essential Cases: Public Law (7th edn, Oxford University Press 2025) §

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Christopher Forsyth and Julian Ghosh, Wade & Forsyth's Administrative Law (12th edn, Oxford University Press 2022) §

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Ian Loveland, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights: A Critical Introduction (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2021) §

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Brian Thompson, Michael Gordon and Adam Tucker, Cases and Materials on Constitutional and Administrative Law (13th edn, Oxford University Press 2021) §

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Colin Faragher, Concentrate Public Law (8th edn, Oxford University Press 2024) §

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Richard Clements, Concentrate Q&A Public Law (3rd edn, Oxford University Press 2020) §

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Arend Lijphart, ‘Chapter 2: The Westminster Model of Democracy’ in Patterns of Democracy (Yale University Press 2012) 9–29 §

Brian Christopher Jones, ‘Chapter 1: What is constitutional idolatry?’ in Brian Christopher Jones (ed), Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020) 1–29 §

Stuart Lakin, ‘I’m Afraid That There’s Just No Escaping it: Public lawyers Must Also Be Legal And Political Theorists’ (UK Constitutional Law Association Blog) §

Martin Loughlin, The Idea of Public Law (Oxford University Press 2004) §

Aileen Kavanagh, ‘The ubiquity of unwritten constitutionalism’ (2023) 21(4) International Journal of Constitutional Law 968–975 §

Anthony King, ‘Chapter 1: What is a Constitution?’ in Anthony King (ed), The British Constitution (Oxford University Press 2009) §

N.W. Barber, ‘Prelude to the Separation of Powers’ (2001) 60(1) The Cambridge Law Journal 59–88 §

‘Boris Johnson’s resignation: Did the constitution work?’ (Public Law for Everyone) §

Jo Eric Khushal Murkens, ‘A Written Constitution: A Case Not Made’ (2021) 41(4) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 965–986 §

J. A. G. Griffith, ‘The Political Constitution’ (1979) 42(1) The Modern Law Review 1–21 §

Written in 1978, before the Human Rights Act, against the Bill of Rights lobby of the day. The question Griffith is answering: who should have the last word when we disagree about how the country is run, judges or politicians? His answer is politicians, always. Law is politics carried on by other means, judges are not neutral, and a Bill of Rights simply hands political questions to unelected people. Read it for the argument that rights are political claims, and for the line that the constitution is no more and no less than what happens. A caution: read on its own it can give a false impression. The constitution was more plainly political in 1978 than it is now, and much has changed since; the lecture gives you the concepts you need, and this is the original for those who want to sit down with it. Why it matters here: this is the founding statement of the political constitution, the position that everything from the HRA to modern judicial review is measured against. You will meet it again in weeks 13 to 15 and week 21.

A. V. Dicey, Comparative constitutionalism (Oxford University Press 2019) §

lectures I–II

N. W. Barber, The United Kingdom constitution: an introduction (1st edn, Oxford University Press 2021) §

Chapter 7

David Torrance, ‘The Crown and the constitution’ (House of Commons Library, 2025) §

Elizabeth Wicks, The evolution of a constitution: eight key moments in British constitutional history (Hart 2006) §

Maurice Sunkin and Sebastian Payne, The nature of the crown: a legal and political analysis (Oxford University Press 1999) §

Chapter 3: Martin Loughlin, 'The State, the Crown and the Law'

Lord Sumption, ‘Magna Carta then and Now’ (Address to the Friends of the British Library, 9 March 2015) §

Nick Barber, ‘Can Royal Assent Be Refused on the Advice of the Prime Minister?’ (UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 2013) §

David Allen Green, ‘Yes, part of our [expletive] constitution is (or was) a letter written to the Times *under a pseudonym*’ (The Empty City, 2022) §

N. W. Barber, ‘Against a written constitution’ (2008) Public Law 11–18 §

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Constitutional and Reform Committee, ‘A New Magna Carta? Political and Constitutional Reform - Second Report (2014-15, HC 463)’ §

Adam Tomkins, ‘What's Left of the Political Constitution?’ (2013) 14(12) German Law Journal 2275–2292 §

Mark Elliott, ‘A tangled constitutional web: the black-spider memos and the British constitution's relational architecture’ (2015) Public law 539 §

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Richard Johnson and Yuan Yi Zhu, ‘Chapter: Introduction: The Case for the Political Constitution’ in Richard Johnson and Yuan Yi Zhu (eds), Sceptical perspectives on the changing constitution of the United Kingdom (Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2023) 1–16 §

Alison L. Young, Unchecked Power? How Recent Constitutional Reforms Are Threatening UK Democracy (Bristol University Press 2024) §

Connects recent constitutional reforms with executive power, institutional checks and democratic accountability.

Tom Poole, ‘Chapter 7: The Executive in Public Law’ in Jeffrey L. Jowell and Colm O'Cinneide (eds), The changing constitution (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2019) 188–208 §

Paul F Scott, ‘Strong Executive, Weak Parliament’ in Diverse voices in public law (Bristol University Press 2023) §

Read Paul F Scott, ‘Strong Executive, Weak Parliament’

Daniella Lock, ‘Backdoor Executive Empowerment’ (2025) 45(4) Legal Studies 577–596 §

Examines legislation passed in 2021–2023 and the marginalisation of parliamentary scrutiny; complements Strong Executive, Weak Parliament.

Mark Elliott, ‘Chapter 2: Parliamentary Sovereignty in a Changing Constitutional Landscape’ in Jeffrey L. Jowell and Colm O'Cinneide (eds), The changing constitution (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2019) 29–57 §

Michael Gordon, Parliamentary sovereignty in the UK constitution: process, politics and democracy (Hart Publishing 2015) §

Aileen Kavanagh, ‘Recasting the Political Constitution: From Rivals to Relationships’ (2019) 30(1) King's Law Journal 43–73 §

Alison Young, ‘Chapter 12: The Relationship between Parliament, the Executive and the Judiciary’ in Jeffrey L. Jowell and Colm O'Cinneide (eds), The changing constitution (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2019) 325–357 §

Philip Norton, ‘Chapter 6: Parliament: the Best of Times, the Worst of Times?’ in Jeffrey L. Jowell and Colm O'Cinneide (eds), The changing constitution (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2019) 157–187 §

Farrah Ahmed and Adam Perry, ‘Constitutional Statutes’ (2017) 37(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 461–481 §

Jeffrey Jowell, ‘Parliamentary sovereignty under the new constitutional hypothesis’ (2006) Public law 562 §

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Jeffrey Denys Goldsworthy, Parliamentary sovereignty: contemporary debates (1st edn, Cambridge University Press 2010) §

G. Gee and G. C. N. Webber, ‘What Is a Political Constitution?’ (2010) 30(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 273–299 §

Eric M Barendt, ‘Separation of powers and constitutional government’ (1995) Public law 599 §

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Stuart White, ‘Brexit and the future of the UK constitution’ (2022) 43(3) International Political Science Review 359–373 §

Jo Eric Khushal Murkens, ‘Democracy as the legitimating condition in the UK Constitution’ (2018) 38(1) Legal Studies 42–58 §

Aileen Kavanagh, The Collaborative Constitution (Cambridge University Press 2023) §

Develops an account of cooperation between courts, legislatures and the executive in protecting rights; complements the political-constitution readings.

Lord Bingham, ‘The rule of law’ (2007) 66 Cambridge Law Journal 67–85 §

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Paul P. Craig, ‘Formal and substantive conceptions of the rule of law: an analytical framework’ (1997) Public Law 467–487 §

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Brian Z. Tamanaha, On the rule of law: history, politics, theory (Cambridge University Press 2004) §

T. H. Bingham, The rule of law (Penguin Books 2011) §

E-book on Kortext (Exeter licence); also in print at Forum Law Library

Jack Beatson, Key ideas in law: the rule of law and the separation of powers (1st edn, Zed Books 2021) §

Hayley J Hooper, ‘Legality, Legitimacy, and Legislation: The Role of Exceptional Circumstances in Common Law Judicial Review’ (2021) 41(1) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 142–168 §

Carol Harlow, ‘Public Law and Popular Justice’ (2002) 65(1) The Modern Law Review 1–18 §

Mark Elliott and Alison L. Young, ‘Privacy International in the Supreme Court: Jurisdiction, the Rule of Law and Parliamentary Sovereignty’ (2019) 78(3) The Cambridge Law Journal 490–496 §

Farrah Ahmed, ‘The Delegation Theory of Judicial Review’ (2021) 84(4) The Modern Law Review 772–810 §

Steve Foster, ‘The rule of law in modern times: not a Priti sight’ (2021) 26 Coventry Law Journal 1–21 §

Leah Trueblood, ‘Judicial review, ouster clauses, and the democratic credentials of the judiciary in the United Kingdom’ (2025) 45(2) Legal Studies 231–245 §

Links judicial independence and democratic legitimacy to limits on ouster clauses; read alongside Privacy International.

Robert Brett Taylor, ‘Foundational and regulatory conventions: exploring the constitutional significance of Britain's dependency upon conventions’ (2015) Public Law 614–632 §

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Farrah Ahmed, Richard Albert and Adam Perry, ‘Judging constitutional conventions’ (2019) 17(3) International Journal of Constitutional Law 787–806 §

Adam Perry, ‘Enforcing Principles, Enforcing Conventions’ (UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 2019) §

Mark Elliott, ‘A new approach to constitutional adjudication? Miller II in the Supreme Court’ (Public Law for Everyone, 2019) §

The Supreme Court’s judgment in Cherry/Miller (No 2)

‘Good Chaps No More? Safeguarding the Constitution in Stressful Times by Andrew Blick and Peter Hennessy’ (The Constitution Society) §

Adam Perry and Adam Tucker, ‘Top‐Down Constitutional Conventions’ (2018) 81(5) The Modern Law Review 765–789 §

N.W Barber, ‘Laws and constitutional conventions’ (2009) 125 Law quarterly review 294 §

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Rodney Brazier, ‘Royal assent to legislation’ (2013) 129 Law quarterly review 184 §

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Michael Gordon, ‘Ministerial irresponsibility in the UK Government: constitutional accountability after Theresa May and Boris Johnson’ (2024) Public Law 414–443 §

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Marleen Maria Kappé and Jerfi Uzman, ‘The drunken dinner guest of democratic politics: Constitutional conventions and populism as a transgressive political style’ (2026) 15(2) Global Constitutionalism 190–218 §

Comparative analysis of conventions and populism, including the UK; extends the discussion in Good Chaps No More?

Jack Williams, ‘Prerogative Powers after Miller: An Analysis in Four E’s’ in Mark Elliott, Jack Williams and Alison L. Young (eds), The UK constitution after Miller : Brexit and beyond (Hart Publishing 2018) §

Aileen McHarg, ‘The Supreme Court's Prorogation Judgment: Guardian of the Constitution or Architect of the Constitution?’ (2020) 24(1) Edinburgh Law Review 88–95 §

Tanzil Chowdhury, ‘Taming the UK's war prerogative: the rationale for reform’ (2018) 38(3) Legal Studies 500–513 §

Rebecca Moosavian, ‘Judges and high prerogative: the enduring influence of expertise and legal purity’ (2012) 4 Public law 724 §

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Anne Twomey, ‘Chapter 1: Prerogative and Reserve Powers’ in Anne Twomey (ed), The veiled sceptre: reserve powers of heads of state in Westminster systems (Cambridge University Press 2018) §

Richard Rawlings, ‘Chapter 11: The The Welsh Way / Y Fford Gmreig’ in Jeffrey L. Jowell and Colm O'Cinneide (eds), The changing constitution (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2019) 296–322 §

Alison Young, ‘Chapter 9: Devolution in Northern Ireland’ in Jeffrey L. Jowell and Colm O'Cinneide (eds), The changing constitution (9th edn, Oxford University Press 2019) 239–269 §

Adam Evans, ‘Northern Ireland, 2017-2020: An experiment in indirect rule’ (2021) Public law 471 §

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Adam Evans, ‘Parliamentary representation at Westminster and devolution: from the “in and out” to EVEL’ (2022) 2022 Public law 9 §

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Stephen Tierney, ‘The Territorial Constitution and the Brexit Process’ (2019) Current Legal Problems §

Coree Brown Swan, ‘Chapter: Scotland, Devolution and Independence: A Union at its Limits?’ in Diverse voices in public law (Bristol University Press 2023) §

Read Coree Brown Swan, ‘Scotland, Devolution and Independence: A Union at its Limits?’ in Se-shauna Wheatle and Elizabeth O’Loughlin (eds) Diverse Voices in Public Law (Bristol University Press 2023)

David Torrance and Douglas Piper, ‘The Secretary of State’s veto and the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill’ (2023) §

Josep M. Tirapu-Sanuy, ‘Devolution, National Pluralism and the Role of the UK Supreme Court’ (2025) 45(3) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 640–668 §

Examines the Supreme Court’s interpretation of devolution and the accommodation of the UK’s minority nations.

Paul F Scott, ‘Of floors and ceilings: the devolution of social security in action’ (2026) 46(2) Legal Studies 336–341 §

A short applied study of shared powers, devolved welfare and the Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025.

Howard Davis, Human Rights Law: Directions (6th edn, Oxford University Press 2026) §

In the Spring Term we will turn to Davis, Human Rights Law: Directions, and Elliott & Thomas, Public Law, for coverage of human rights and public order. A student-friendly textbook for the human rights weeks. If the Human Rights Act feels like a wall of section numbers, start here: it explains the structure of the Act and the Convention rights clearly and at first-year level, before you go to the cases. New edition (2026), on Law Trove, so free to you.

OUP Law Trove 2026 Human Rights collection; new edition published May 2026.

Roger Masterman and Se-Shauna Wheatle, ‘A common law resurgence in rights protection?’ (2015) European human rights law review 57–65 §

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Shona Wilson Stark, ‘Facing Facts: Judicial Approaches to Section 4 of the Human Rights Act 1998’ (2017) 133 Law quarterly review 631 §

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Helen Fenwick and Roger Masterman, ‘The Conservative Project to ‘Break the Link between British Courts and Strasbourg’: Rhetoric or Reality?’ (2017) 80(6) The Modern Law Review 1111–1136 §

Aileen Kavanagh, Constitutional review under the UK Human Rights Act (Cambridge University Press 2009) §

Aileen Kavanagh, ‘Is the Illegal Migration Act itself illegal? The Meaning and Methods of Section 19 HRA’ (UK Constitutional Law Association Blog, 2023) §

Fiona De Londras and Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Great debates on the European Convention on Human Rights (Palgrave 2018) §

Conall Mallory and Hélène Tyrrell, ‘Discretionary Space and Declarations of Incompatibility’ (2021) 32(3) King's Law Journal 466–496 §

B. Hale, ‘Argentoratum Locutum: Is Strasbourg or the Supreme Court Supreme?’ (2012) 12(1) Human Rights Law Review 65–78 §

Jeremy Letwin, ‘Strasbourg's views on the modern mirror principle: shattering the mirror?’ (2023) Public Law 628–649 §

Elizabeth Adams, ‘Judicial discretion and the declaration of incompatibility: constitutional considerations in controversial cases’ (2021) 311–333 §

Mark Elliott, ‘Beyond the European Convention: human rights and the common law’ (2015) 68 Current Legal Problems 85–117 §

F. Klug, ‘A bill of rights: do we need one or do we already have one?’ (2007) Public Law 701–719 §

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Jonathan Sumption, ‘Human rights and wrongs’ in Jonathan Sumption (ed), Trials of the state: law and the decline of politics (Profile Books 2020) 43–72 §

Licensed digitised chapter via the Talis link

Lewis Graham, ‘Interpreting the Interpretive Obligation: Empirical Insights into the Use of Section 3 of the Human Rights Act 1998’ (2026) 46(2) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 247–279 §

Adds empirical evidence on section 3 interpretation, balancing the existing emphasis on section 4 declarations of incompatibility.

Megan Pfiffer, ‘Administrative Law as a Source of Rights’ (2025) 88(2) The Modern Law Review 366–388 §

Explores rights arising within administrative law; complements the common-law rights readings by Elliott, Masterman and Wheatle.

Ronald Dworkin, Taking Rights Seriously (1977) §

The question Dworkin is answering: can the government set aside an individual's right because doing so benefits the majority? His answer is no. A right is a trump over collective welfare, or it is not a right at all. Read chapter 7 ('Taking Rights Seriously') for that argument alone; the exchange with Hart and the rest of the book can wait. Why it matters here: it is the theory behind the shape of the Human Rights Act, where a right yields only to a proportionate justification and never simply to the general good.

E-book on ProQuest Ebook Central (Exeter licence)

Jeremy Waldron, ‘The Core of the Case Against Judicial Review’ (2006) 115(6) Yale Law Journal 1346–1406 §

The question Waldron is answering: when reasonable people disagree in good faith about what rights we have, who should decide, judges or the legislature? His answer is the legislature, provided four conditions hold: working democratic institutions, functioning courts, a general commitment to rights, and persisting good-faith disagreement about what those rights require. Read it for those four conditions and for the distinction between strong judicial review (courts can strike legislation down) and weak review (courts can only flag the problem). Why it matters here: the Human Rights Act is his example of weak review. That is why it sits in weeks 13 to 15, and it is the best single reply to Dworkin on this list.

Free PDF from Yale Law School's open repository (openYLS).

Michael Taggart, ‘Proportionality, Deference, Wednesbury’ 2008(1) New Zealand Law Review 423–481 §

James Goodwin, ‘The last defence of Wednesbury’ (2012) Public Law 445–467 §

Lord Carnwath, ‘From Judicial Outrage to Sliding Scales—Where Next for Wednesbury?’ (Administrative Law Bar Association Annual Lecture, 12 November 2013) §

Alison L. Young, ‘In Defence of Due Deference’ (2009) 72(4) The Modern Law Review 554–580 §

Aileen Kavanagh, ‘Defending deference in public law and constitutional theory’ (2010) Law Quarterly Review 222–250 §

Rebecca Williams, ‘Structuring substantive review’ (2017) Public Law 99–123 §

Lewis Graham, ‘Proportionality under the HRA: are de Freitas and Daly now defunct?’ (2024) Public Law 37–44 §

T. R. S. Allan, ‘Judicial deference and judicial review: legal doctrine and legal theory’ (2011) Law Quarterly Review 96–117 §

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Mark Elliott, ‘The Ultra Vires Doctrine in a Constitutional Setting: Still the Central Principle of Administrative Law’ (1999) 58(1) The Cambridge Law Journal 129–158 §

Mark Elliott and Philip Murray, ‘In Defence of Classical Administrative Law’ (2026) 85(1) The Cambridge Law Journal 94–127 §

Revisits unlawful acts, quashing orders and collateral challenge in light of recent legislation and judicial decisions.

Abimbola A. Olowofoyeku, ‘Bias and the informed observer: a call for a return to Gough’ (2009) 68(2) The Cambridge Law Journal 388–409 §

Edward Lui, ‘A limited case for the closed material procedure: natural justice, open justice and the clear advantage variation’ (2024) 44(4) Legal Studies 668–684 §

Examines when withholding evidence from a party can be justified, extending this section beyond apparent bias.

Philip Murray, ‘Procedural Fairness, Human Rights and the Parole Board’ (2014) 73(1) The Cambridge Law Journal 5–8 §

An older supplementary case comment connecting common-law procedural fairness, human rights and parole hearings.

Paul Daly, ‘A Pluralist Account of Deference and Legitimate Expectations’ in Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks (eds), Legitimate expectations in the common law world (Hart Publishing 2017) §

David Vitale, ‘Reimagining the Trust Conception of Legitimate Expectations’ (2025) 84(2) The Cambridge Law Journal 397–430 §

Examines public trust as the basis for legitimate expectations; expands the section beyond Daly’s chapter.

David Barrett, ‘The regulatory space of equality and human rights in Britain: the role of the Equality and Human Rights Commission’ (2019) 39(2) Legal Studies 247–265 §

David Barrett, ‘The importance of regulators and inspectorates to the realisation of equality and human rights: ensuring compliance and supporting mainstreaming’ (2020) Public Law 56–71 §

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Sandra Fredman, Discrimination law (2nd edn, Oxford University Press 2011) §

Sandra Fredman, ‘The public sector equality duty’ (2011) 40 Industrial Law Journal 405–427 §

B. A. Hepple, Equality: the legal framework (2nd edn, Hart Pub 2014) §

Simonetta Manfredi, Lucy Vickers and Kate Clayton-Hathway, ‘The public sector equality duty: enforcing equality rights through second-generation regulation’ (2018) 47(3) Industrial Law Journal 365–398 §

Meg Russell and Colm O'Cinneide, ‘Positive Action to Promote Women in Politics: Some European Comparisons’ (2003) 52 International and Comparative Law Quarterly 587–614 §

Tom Hickman, ‘Too hot, too cold or just right? The development of the public sector equality duties in administrative law’ (2013) Public Law 325–344 §

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Anna Lawson, ‘Accessibility and the Limits of the Equality Act 2010: Time for a UK Accessibility Act?’ (2025) 78(1) Current Legal Problems 127–166 §

Evaluates accessibility protections and the public sector equality duty, with proposals for a more effective regulatory framework.

Andrew Le Sueur, ‘Administrative Justice and the Resolution of Disputes’ in Jeffrey L. Jowell and Dawn Oliver (eds), The Changing Constitution (7th edn, Oxford University Press 2011) §

Michael Lipsky, Street-level bureaucracy: dilemmas of the individual in public services (Updated edition, Russell Sage Foundation 2010) §

Simon Halliday, ‘The influence of judicial review on bureaucratic decision-making’ (2000) Public Law 110–122 §

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Maurice Sunkin, Lucinda Platt and Kerman Calvo, ‘The Positive Effect of Judicial Review on the Quality of Local Government’ (2010) 15(4) Judicial Review 337–342 §

Robert Thomas, ‘Administrative justice, better decisions, and organisational learning’ (2015) Public Law 111–131 §

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D. Cowan, A. Dymond, S. Halliday and C. Hunter, ‘Reconsidering mandatory reconsideration’ (2017) Public Law 215–234 §

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Robert Thomas and Joe Tomlinson, ‘A different tale of judicial power: administrative review as a problematic response to the judicialisation of tribunals’ (2019) Public Law 537–562 §

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Oliver Butler, ‘Algorithmic Decision-Making, Delegation and the Modern Machinery of Government’ (2025) 45(3) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 727–752 §

Extends the decision-making readings to automated government, delegation and the accountability of human officials.

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