In this collection, leading figures in UK and EU public law address seismic changes the field and reflect upon the implications of these changes, the fundamentals of public law, and the interrelationship between them across six themes: legislation, case law, theory, institutions, process, and constitutions.

• 1: Elizabeth Fisher, Jeff King and Alison Young: Introduction: Why Fundamentals Matter


• Part One: Theory


• 2: Neil Walker: The State and Other Polities; the Diverse Objects of Public Law


• 3: Janet McLean: The Changing Authority Bases of Administrative Law


• 4: Nick Barber: Theory: A Commentary


• Part Two: Legislation


• 5: Jeff King: The Province of Delegated Legislation


• 6: Eleanor Sharpston QC: Legislating and Adjudicating: Where and How to Strike the Balance


• 7: Lord Justice Philip Sales: Legislation: A Commentary


• Part Three: Case Law


• 8: Gráinne de Búrca: Connecting National Courts and the ECJ


• 9: Alison Young: Public Law Cases and the Common Law: A Unique Relationship?


• 10: Timothy Endicott: Case Law: A Commentary


• Part Four: The Administrative State: Institutions and Accountability


• 11: Deirdre Curtin: Beyond Probability: The Accountability of Data Possibility


• 12: Elizabeth Fisher: The Open Road? Navigating Administrative Institutions and The Failed Promise of Administrative Law


• 13: Anne Davies: Institutions and Accountability: A Commentary


• Part Five: The Administrative State: Process and Procedure


• 14: Carol Harlow and Richard Rawlings: Administrative Law and Administrative Procedure


• 15: Joana Mendes: Administrative Discretion in EU Law: Judicial and Administrative Review


• 16: Mark Freedland: Process and Procedure: A Commentary


• Part Six: Constitutions and Rights


• 17: Cheryl Saunders: The Challenges of Multi-Layered Constitutionalism


• 18: Miguel Maduro: The Transformation of Politics and Democracy in and Beyond the State


• 19: Sionaidh Douglas-Scott: Constitutions and Rights: A Commentary


• Conclusion


• 20: Paul Craig: The Fundamentals

Elizabeth Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law, Corpus Christi College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her 2007 book, Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism, won the 2008 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2008. She is also author of Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction and co-author of Fisher, Lange, and Scotford, Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials. She is General Editor of Journal of Environmental Law, Reviews Editor of the OJLS, and has served as the editor of the Legislation and Reports Section of the Modern Law Review.
Jeff King is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is the co-editor of Current Legal Problems, formerly the Co-Editor of the UK Constitutional Law Blog, and sits on the editorial committee of Public Law. His Judging Social Rights won the 2014 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. He is presently an Executive Member of the UK Constitutional Law Association, and member of the UK Study of Parliament Group. In 2017 he was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law.
Alison Young is currently the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College. She is an executive member of the UK Constitutional Law Association and co-editor of the UKCLA blog. She is also on the editorial Board of European Public Law. She is the author of Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution, for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2013-15, and Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act.