Hart Publihing has published a new title 'Law in Politics, Politics in Law', edited by David Feldman
Abstract
A great
deal has been written on the relationship between politics and law.
Legislation, as a source of law, is often highly political, and is the product
of a process or the creation of officials often closely bound into party
politics. Legislation is also one of the exclusive powers of the state. As
such, legislation is plainly both practical and inevitably political; at the
same time most understandings of the relationship between law and politics have
been overwhelmingly theoretical. In this light, public law is often seen as
part of the political order or as inescapably partisan. We know relatively little about the real
impact of law on politicians through their legal advisers and civil servants.
How do lawyers in government see their roles and what use do they make of law?
How does politics actually affect the drafting of legislation or the making of
policy?
This volume
will begin to answer these and other questions about the practical, day-to-day
relationship between law and politics in a number of settings. It includes
chapters by former departmental legal advisers, drafters of legislation, law
reformers, judges and academics, who focus on what actually happens when law
meets politics in government.
Info on the book is avaliable here.
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