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Blueprints provide a unique plan for studying the law, giving a visual overview of the vital building blocks of each topic and the various outside influences that come together in the study of law. This series enables the reader to place everything within memorable context and is useful in providing an overview of the law.

Each text offers a clear understanding of legal study and an engaging introduction to each subject; presenting the study of law as both an academic subject and a force in society. The texts map to undergraduate law degree programmes and are tailored for use harmoniously alongside core law material.

Blueprints: Constitutional and Administrative Law

• Contents


• Table of cases and statutes


• Acknowledgements


• How to use this guide


• What is a Blueprint?


• Introduction


• Studying skills for constitutional and adminstrative law


• Part 1 Constitutional fundamentals


• 1 Introduction to the constitution of the United Kingdom


• WHAT IS MEANT BY A CONSTITUTION?


• CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM


• DEVOLUTION AND THE REFERENDUM ON SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE


• RECENT CONSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS


• KEY FEATURES OF A CONSTITUTION


• DOES THE UNITED KINGDOM HAVE A CONSTITUTION?


• 2 The sources of the United Kingdom?s constitution


• ACTS OF PARLIAMENT


• COMMON LAW


• MEMBERSHIP OF THE EUROPEAN UNION


• MEMBERSHIP OF THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE


• CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONS


• PREROGATIVE POWERS


• 3 The separation of powers


• WHAT IS THE SEPARATION OF POWERS?


• THE THREE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT


• WHAT DO THE THREE BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT DO?


• WHO IDENTIFIED THE CLASSIC DOCTRINE OF THE SEPARATION OF POWERS?


• DOES THE UK HAVE SEPARATION OF POWERS?


• OVERLAPS OF FUNCTION AND PERSONNEL


• DOES THE UNITED KINGDOM?S SYSTEM HAVE SUITABLE CHECKS AND BALANCES?


• IMPACT OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ACT 2005


• UK SEPARATION OF POWERS? WHAT ACADEMICS THINK


• UK SEPARATION OF POWERS? WHAT JUDGES THINK


• CONCLUSION


• 4 The rule of law


• DEFINITION OF THE RULE OF LAW


• DEVELOPMENT OF THE RULE OF LAW IN ENGLAND


• DICEY AND THE RULE OF LAW


• TWO VERSIONS OF THE RULE OF LAW


• IMPORTANCE OF THE RULE OF LAW IN A DEMOCRACY


• 5 Parliamentary Sovereignty


• ORIGINS


• THE TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE


• LIMITATIONS ON THE TRADITIONAL DOCTRINE