Research
You will find a complete range of our monographs, muti-authored and edited works including peer-reviewed, original scholarly research across the social sciences and aligned disciplines. We publish long and short form research and you can browse the complete Bristol University Press and Policy Press archive of over 1,500 titles.
Policy Press also publishes policy reviews and polemic work which aim to challenge policy and practice in certain fields. These books have a practitioner in mind and are practical, accessible in style, as well as being academically sound and referenced.
Books: Research
This chapter provides a critical examination of the British social security system through a gender lens. It examines the implications of the increasingly conditional approach to social welfare provision and what this means for the social citizenship of women. There is an examination of recent case law relating to the ‘benefit cap’ and the ‘two-child limit’, and conclusions are drawn on what it means for the practice of public law.
This chapter seeks to challenge the focus on precedent in traditional public law study and scholarship. Instead, it argues for the importance of first-instance decision making to understanding the operation of administrative law. In order to build on the existing administrative justice literature, it puts forward a framework of administrative violence which can be used to understand the traumatic experience to which some claimants are subjected when making a first-instance claim. Using the case study of asylum claims by sexually diverse claimants, the chapter argues that greater attention should be paid to how decisions are made at first instance.
Constitutional claims become particularly contentious in the arena of national security. Drawing on the Begum case on cancellation of British citizenship, the issues of parliamentary sovereignty, the Human Rights Act, national security, deference and discretion are illustrated in this chapter. The voice of racialised categories can become silenced in these constitutional disputes. The aim of this chapter is to unpack how such silencing may happen in the name of majoritarian democracy.
Taking a unique and critical approach to the study of public law, this book explores the main topics in UK public law from a range of underexplored perspectives and amplifies the voices of scholars who are underrepresented in the field. As such, it represents a much-needed complement to traditional textbooks in public law.
The book enriches students’ understanding of the dynamics that emerge within public law, highlights the impact of historical and societal inequities on public law norms, and demonstrates the ways in which those norms may impact minorities and perpetuate inequalities.
With most chapters written by underrepresented or minoritised persons in the field, this text offers students a critical, rich and insightful approach to public law.
Taking a unique and critical approach to the study of Public Law, this book explores the main topics in UK Public Law from a range of underexplored perspectives and amplifies the voices of scholars who are underrepresented in the field. As such, it represents a much-needed complement to traditional textbooks in Public Law.
Including insights from a diverse list of contributors, the book:
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Enriches students’ understanding of the dynamics that emerge within public law;
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Highlights the impact of historical and societal inequities on public law norms;
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Demonstrates the ways in which those norms may impact minorities and perpetuate inequalities.
With most chapters written by underrepresented or minoritised persons in the field, this text offers students a critical, rich, and insightful approach to public law.
Judicial diversity is key to judicial legitimacy and securing public confidence in the courts. However, existing initiatives to promote judicial diversity in England and Wales have struggled to achieve meaningful change, particularly at the senior levels of the judiciary. This chapter considers what we mean by judicial ‘diversity’, current progress towards judicial diversity, and why judicial diversity matters. It argues that diverse voices will only be present in the judiciary with a fundamental and holistic rethink of judicial careers.
Taking a unique and critical approach to the study of public law, this book explores the main topics in UK public law from a range of underexplored perspectives and amplifies the voices of scholars who are underrepresented in the field. As such, it represents a much-needed complement to traditional textbooks in public law.
The book enriches students’ understanding of the dynamics that emerge within public law, highlights the impact of historical and societal inequities on public law norms, and demonstrates the ways in which those norms may impact minorities and perpetuate inequalities.
With most chapters written by underrepresented or minoritised persons in the field, this text offers students a critical, rich and insightful approach to public law.
Taking a unique and critical approach to the study of public law, this book explores the main topics in UK public law from a range of underexplored perspectives and amplifies the voices of scholars who are underrepresented in the field. As such, it represents a much-needed complement to traditional textbooks in public law.
The book enriches students’ understanding of the dynamics that emerge within public law, highlights the impact of historical and societal inequities on public law norms, and demonstrates the ways in which those norms may impact minorities and perpetuate inequalities.
With most chapters written by underrepresented or minoritised persons in the field, this text offers students a critical, rich and insightful approach to public law.
Brexit was to be the biggest challenge faced by the British administrative state before the arrival of COVID-19. Westminster relied on delegated legislation to respond to both events. This chapter examines the way that Parliament was sidelined during the process of legislating for exiting the European Union and COVID-19. It uses specific examples from those two contexts and links them directly to much more longstanding debates about the role of delegated legislation in the UK’s constitutional system.
Since the advent of the popular franchise, the British Constitution has struggled to articulate what the relationship between the people and Parliament is. This chapter looks at this relationship through the lens of parliamentary supremacy: the doctrine that there are no substantive legal limits on the powers of Parliament. It traces developments in the political constitution relating to Parliament and notes that since 1911 there have been arguments about whether or not there was a convention limiting the exercise of parliamentary power. It then develops a theory linking the people and Parliament since the 1970s, and argues that this can best explain recent developments in British constitutional theory, including the litigation relating to the referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU.
