Trusted by generations of students, and consistently reliable and up to date, Hilaire Barnett’s Constitutional and Administrative Law continues to provide unparalleled coverage of the Public Law syllabus. Mapped to the common course outline, the Seventeenth Edition equips students with a thorough understanding of the UK constitution’s past, present and future by analysing and illustrating the political and sociohistorical contexts that have shaped the major rules and principles of constitutional and administrative law, as well as ongoing constitutional reform.

This edition has been fully updated throughout, with accompanying online digital resources that can be found on the student website at www.routledgelearning.com/BarnettCAL. These include a timeline, further resources, interactive self-test questions and mid-edition updates, to ensure that the book continues to be the most up to date textbook available.

Ideal for students studying constitutional and administrative law for the first time, this is an indispensable guide to the challenging concepts and legal rules in public law.

Hilaire Barnett, BA, LLM is a former Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London.