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Authors: W. John Morgan (Editor), Stephen Livingstone, Stephen Livingstone
ISBN-13: 9780333800898, ISBN-10: 0333800893
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: REV

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Author Biography: W. John Morgan

W. John Morgan is at the School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham.

Stephen Livingstone is at Queen's University, Belfast.

Book Synopsis

Law and Opinion in Twentieth Century Britain and Ireland covers four main themes: Law and the State, Culture and Identity, Public Morality and the Citizen, The Death of the English Constitution, each theme being analyzed through two essays authored by leading British and Irish academics. The book provides a substantial and readable analysis of the relationship between law and opinion in Britain and Ireland, with a special focus on the question of culture, identity, and the state.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Notes on the Contributors
Foreword
Introduction: Albert Venn Dicey, Lawyer, Academic and Public Intellectual1
1Public Opinion, Political Education and Citizenship9
2The Triumph of Individualism?32
3Matrimonial Property: Legal Developments and Social Trends59
4Public Opinion and the Regulation of Conception84
5Language, Law and Politics109
6Ethnicity and Education141
7Europe and its Impact on the United Kingdom165
8Dicey and the Celtic Nations: A Nightmare Come to Life?194
Index217

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