Oxford LibGuides: Constitutions, constitutional &amp; administrative law: History

Legal History of Constitutions

Evolution of parliament (UK)
Free resource. Part of the Living Heritage pages of the UK Parliament website.

Constitutional law Great Britain History
Constitutional history -- England
Executive power -- England -- History
Common law -- England -- History

Introduction to English Legal History by John Baker
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780198812616
Publication Date: 5th edn 2019
Constitution general principles180 n. 70
unwritten216 See also Administrative law; See also Due process; See also King; See also Legislation; See also Liberty; See also Parliament; See also Royal prerogative; See also Rule of law; See also Separation of powers; See also Judges (tenure of)
Sources of English Legal History : Public Law to 1750 by John Baker
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link
ISBN: 9780199546794
Publication Date: 2024

Maitland : The constitutional history of England : a course of lectures
Requires Oxford SSO for remote access. Electronic version of lectures originally given in 1908. Print copy is at Legal Hist M232b
Dicey's Introduction to the study of the constitution
Requires Oxford SSO for remote access. E-version of 8th, 1915 edition. Copies of 10th ed are at LAW Reserve Desk.

The constitutionalist revolution : an essay on the history of England, 1450-1642 by Alan Cromartie
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 0521782694
Publication Date: 2006
Print copy at Legal Hist C945a if preferrred
Constitutions and the Classics; Patterns of Constitutional Thought from Fortescue to Bentham by Denis Galligan (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 9780198714989
Publication Date: 2015
Print copy is at Jurisp 510 G168f
Entick V Carrington : 250 years of the rule of law by Adam Tomkins (Editor); Paul Scott (Editor)
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this online via title link.
ISBN: 1849465584
Publication Date: 2015
Print copy is at KM34.TOM 2015
The New British Constitution by Vernon Bogdanor
Call Number: Holders of an Oxford SSO can read this via title link
ISBN: 1841131490
Publication Date: 2009
New means post 1997. Print copy is at KM31.BOG 2009

Materials available to anyone with access to the internet

Bagehot's The English Constitution
Free resource. 2nd edition of 1870s on Project Gutenberg
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England
Open Access on Avalon Project, Yale.
Introduction to the study of the constitution (Dicey)
Free resource Based on last edition in Dicey's lifetime - 8th of 1915 Liberty Fund’s edition of Dicey’s most famous work on English constitutional law in which he defended the idea of the sovereignty of parliament under an independent judiciary and the rule of law.

Encyclopédie de droit politique
Open Access Brings together materials on 5 constitutional crises from the 19th and 20th centuries F
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