Landmark Cases in Criminal Law
Edited by Phil Handler, Henry Mares and Ian Williams
Criminal cases raise difficult normative and legal questions, and are often a consequence of compelling human drama. In this collection, expert authors place leading cases in criminal law in their historical and legal contexts, highlighting their significance both in the past and for the present.
The cases in this volume range from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century. Many of them are well known to modern criminal lawyers and students; others are overlooked landmarks that deserve reconsideration. The essays, often based on extensive and original archival research, range over a wide spectrum of criminal law, covering procedure and doctrine, statute and common law, individual offences and general principles. Together, the essays explore common themes, including the scope of criminal law and criminalisation, the role of the jury, and the causes of change in criminal law.
Philip Handler is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of Manchester.
Henry Mares is John Thornely Fellow, and Director of Studies in Law at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.
Ian Williams is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Laws at University College London.
May 2017 | 9781849466899 | 384pp | Hardback | RSP: £80
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Landmark Cases in Public Law
Edited by Satvinder Juss and Maurice Sunkin
Landmark Cases in Public Law answers the need for an historical examination of the leading cases in this field, an examination which is largely absent from the standard textbooks and journal articles of the day. Adopting a contextualised historical approach, this collection of essays by leading specialists in the field provides both an explanation of the importance and impact of the chosen decisions, as well as doctrinal analysis. This approach enables each author to throw light on the driving forces behind the judicial outcomes, and shows how the final reasoning of the court was ultimately as much dependent upon such human factors as the attitudes, conduct, and personalities of the parties, their witnesses, their counsel, and the judges, as the drive to seek legal realignment with the political developments that were widely perceived to be taking place. In this way, this form of analysis provides an exposition of the true stories behind these landmark cases in public law.
Satvinder Juss is a Professor of Law at King’s College London.
Maurice Sunkin is Professor of Public Law and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Essex.
June 2017 | 9781849466035 | 376pp | Hardback | RSP: £80
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English Legal History 