Böcker i Hart Studies in Constitutional Law-serien

This book presents an all-encompassing way to understand lobbying: the 'Diversion Guide'. This shows that lobbying is problematic when institutions are diverted from acting in the public interest. It reveals why diversions happen, how they are linked together, and what can be done to prevent them. The reader can use the 'Diversion Guide' to identify any problem about lobbying, and test when an officeholder has been diverted from acting in the public interest. The book examines how lobbying can encourage citizen participation and lead to informed law and policy, but is not always fair. It considers the way in which wealthy and influential people can gain greater access to the United Kingdom's political system than most to shape the laws that govern everyone. Scandals are often reported in the media surrounding unequal access, corruption, the revolving door, and more. Unchecked, such lobbying corrodes trust in public institutions. It is vital that the problems surrounding lobbying are clearly understood to avoid a system of weak regulations and to ensure that better regulations are created to restore public trust in politics. The 'Diversion Guide' can be used to this end.

The status of the doctrine of parliamentary sovereignty in the contemporary UK constitution is much contested. This book develops an account of the continuing significance of the doctrine.

This book analyses in detail the principal attempts to reform the House of Lords. Starting with the Parliament Act of 1911 the book examines the century of non-reform that followed, in the process drawing upon substantial archival sources, many of which have been under-utilised until now.

This book analyses the scope of privacy, the desirability, vulnerability, states, value, balance and remedy. It offers the first thematic account of the privacy protection afforded by Article 8 ECHR, and an external view on privacy theory.

This volume will begin to answer questions about the practical, day-to-day relationship between law and politics in a number of settings.

This volume will begin to answer questions about the practical, day-to-day relationship between law and politics in a number of settings.