01869nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139136761 UkCbUP 20180107143409.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110810s2012||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139136761 (ebook) 9781107022485 (hardback) 9781107536364 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda KD640 .M39 2012 320.10941 23 McLean, Janet, author. Searching for the State in British Legal Thought : Competing Conceptions of the Public Sphere / [electronic resource] Janet McLean. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012. 1 online resource (346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law ; no. 4 Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Janet McLean explores how the common law has personified the state and how those personifications affect and reflect the state's relationship to bureaucracy, sovereignty and civil society, the development of public law norms, the expansion and contraction of the public sphere with nationalization and privatization, state responsibility and human rights. Treating legal thought as a variety of political thought, she discusses writers such as Austin, Maitland, Dicey, Laski, Robson, Hart, Griffith, Mitchell and Hayek in the context of both legal doctrine and broader intellectual movements. Print version: 9781107022485 Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law ; no. 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139136761 Cambridge Books Online 236340 236340