Gabrielle Appleby, University of New South Wales
Sir John Baker, University of Cambridge
David Capper, Queen’s University Belfast
Kevin Costello, University College Dublin
Peter Crooks, Trinity College Dublin
Megan Davis, University of New South Wales
N. M. Dawson, Queen’s University Belfast
Stephanie Dropuljic, University of Exeter
Lady Brenda Hale, Rt. Hon. Baroness Hale of Richmond, Former President of the Supreme Court of the UK
A. J. Hannay, University of Manchester
Joel Herman, Trinity College Dublin
Colum Kenny, Dublin City University
Katre Luhamaa, University of Tartu
Richard McBride, Queen’s University Belfast
Conor McCormick, Queen’s University Belfast
Thomas Mohr, University College Dublin
C. R. G. Murray, University of Newcastle
Timothy Murtagh, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland
Merike Ristikivi, University of Tartu
Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University
Maike Schwiddessen, University of Würzburg
Gwen Seabourne, University of Bristol
Karin Sein, University of Tartu
Robert Brett Taylor, University of Aberdeen
Ciarán Wallace, Trinity College Dublin
Ian Ward, University of Newcastle
Book contents
- Law and Constitutional Change
- Law and Constitutional Change
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Editors’ Introduction
- 1 ‘Another Sort of Treason’
- 2 The Origins of the Statute of Uses
- 3 Examining the Doctrine of Art and Part in Early Modern Scotland
- 4 The Beginnings of Judicial Review
- 5 The Aspirations of James Stuart
- 6 A British Common Law?
- 7 Quo Warranto and the Borough Office Holder, 1700–1792
- 8 Land, Credit and the Constitution
- 9 Constitutional Change, Law and Grattan’s Parliament
- 10 Sir John Ross Bt
- 11 Lord Birkenhead, Ambiguity and the Irish Border
- 12 The British–Irish Negotiations on the Drafting of the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State
- 13 No Way to Run a Railroad
- 14 Fortuna Fortes Adiuvat
- 15 First Nations Constitutional Recognition in Australia
- 16 The Rise and Fall of the UK Human Rights Act
- 17 Courting the Past
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 September 2025
Book contents
- Law and Constitutional Change
- Law and Constitutional Change
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Editors’ Introduction
- 1 ‘Another Sort of Treason’
- 2 The Origins of the Statute of Uses
- 3 Examining the Doctrine of Art and Part in Early Modern Scotland
- 4 The Beginnings of Judicial Review
- 5 The Aspirations of James Stuart
- 6 A British Common Law?
- 7 Quo Warranto and the Borough Office Holder, 1700–1792
- 8 Land, Credit and the Constitution
- 9 Constitutional Change, Law and Grattan’s Parliament
- 10 Sir John Ross Bt
- 11 Lord Birkenhead, Ambiguity and the Irish Border
- 12 The British–Irish Negotiations on the Drafting of the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State
- 13 No Way to Run a Railroad
- 14 Fortuna Fortes Adiuvat
- 15 First Nations Constitutional Recognition in Australia
- 16 The Rise and Fall of the UK Human Rights Act
- 17 Courting the Past
- Index
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