Hybrid | English Administrative Law from 1550: Continuity and Change

English Administrative Law from 1550: Continuity and Change

Speaker: Professor Paul Craig (University of Oxford)

Commentators: TBC

Chair: Prof Jeff King (UCL Laws)

Abstract

In this edition of the Public Law Seminar Series, hosted by the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism at UCL Laws, renowned scholar Paul Craig will present on his new book English Administrative Law from 1550: Continuity and Change. Following his presentation, commentators will offer their remarks, leading into further discussions. The event will be chaired by Jeff King.

About the Book

The commonly held view about English administrative law is that it is of recent origin, with some dating it from the mid-20th century and some venturing back to the late 19th century. English Administrative Law from 1550: Continuity and Change upends this conventional thinking, charting its development from the mid-16th century with an in-depth examination of administrative law doctrine based on primary legal materials, statute, and case law….With thought-provoking and original insights, English Administrative Law from 1550 systematically elaborates and contextualizes the origins of administrative law features while linking them to their modern-day equivalents.

About the Speaker

Paul Craig is Emeritus Professor of English Law, St John's College, Oxford. His research interests cover Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Comparative Administrative Law and Legal History. He has written widely in these areas, with the most recent new book length publication being English Administrative from 1550: Continuity and Change (Oxford University Press, 2024). He was the UK alternate member of the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe between 2010-2019. He is a  Visiting Professor of Law at NYU Abu Dhabi.  

About the Commentators and Chair

 

Prof Jeff King  joined the UCL Laws as a Senior Lecturer in 2011, and has been Professor of Law since 2016. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, and was between 2019-2021 a Legal Adviser to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution. He sits on the Editorial Committee of Public Law, the General Council of the International Society of Public Law (ICON Society), and is a member of the Study of Parliament Group . He was previously the Co-Editor of Current Legal Problems and the Co-Editor of the UK Constitutional Law Blog. Prior to coming to UCL, he was a Fellow and Tutor in law at Balliol College, and CUF Lecturer for the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford (2008-2011), a Research Fellow and Tutor law at Keble College, Oxford (2007-08), and an attorney at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York City (2003-04). In addition to Oxford, he has held visiting posts at the University of Toronto (2013, 2020), Renmin University (Beijing), the University of New South Wales, and in 2014-15 was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation visiting fellow at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His book Judging Social Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2012) won the Society of Legal Scholars 2014 Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, and in 2017 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law.

He is currently on secondment to the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, where he serves as Director of Research from 2022-2024.

About the GCDC

The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism, based at the UCL Faculty of Laws, seeks to advance scholarly understanding of the relationship between democratic government and the rule of law in domestic, comparative, and transnational perspective, with a particular focus on identifying the supporting conditions for constitutional resilience in electorally competitive political systems. Read more about the group and its work.

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You can attend this event in-person at UCL Faculty of Laws (Bentham House, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London WC1H 0EG) or alternatively you can join via a live stream.

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