Competing Conceptions of the Public Sphere / [electronic resource] McLean, Janet creator author. text enk 2012 monographic eng

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1 online resource (346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). 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. Janet McLean. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). KD640 .M39 2012 320.10941 9781139136761 (ebook) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139136761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139136761 UkCbUP 110810 20180107143409.0 CR9781139136761