Constitutional Law (FHS)

From Dicey to the present: competing accounts of ultimate legislative authority in the UK constitution

Constitutional statutes and implied repeal: Thoburn's doctrine and the evolving limits of parliamentary sovereignty

Advanced constitutional law: manner and form theory, the Parliament Acts, and the unresolved debate after R (Jackson) v Attorney General

Bingham's eight principles, their judicial application, and contemporary challenges in the post-Brexit constitutional order

Week 5 — Advanced constitutional law: the separation of powers doctrine, institutional balance, judicial independence, and the contested boundaries of executive, legislative and judicial authority in the UK's uncodified constitution.

The control, justiciability, and limits of executive power in the post-Brexit constitution

Week 7: Devolution and the Sewel Convention

EU law, Brexit, and the retained EU law regime

An analytical treatment of the HRA's interpretive and declaratory mechanisms, with detailed attention to the Ghaidan, Bellinger, and Nicklinson lines of authority

Week 10 • Advanced constitutional law — sovereignty, devolution, HRA, Brexit, and the changing constitution

The emerging doctrine of constitutional dialogue between courts and Parliament under the Human Rights Act and beyond