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
W. John Morgan is at the School of Continuing Education, University of Nottingham.
Stephen Livingstone is at Queen's University, Belfast.
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.
Acknowledgements | ||
Notes on the Contributors | ||
Foreword | ||
Introduction: Albert Venn Dicey, Lawyer, Academic and Public Intellectual | 1 | |
1 | Public Opinion, Political Education and Citizenship | 9 |
2 | The Triumph of Individualism? | 32 |
3 | Matrimonial Property: Legal Developments and Social Trends | 59 |
4 | Public Opinion and the Regulation of Conception | 84 |
5 | Language, Law and Politics | 109 |
6 | Ethnicity and Education | 141 |
7 | Europe and its Impact on the United Kingdom | 165 |
8 | Dicey and the Celtic Nations: A Nightmare Come to Life? | 194 |
Index | 217 |