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30 October 2015
Issue: 7674 / Categories: Features
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Book review: The Law-making Process (7th edition)

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“Like all Professor Zander’s written works, this new edition provides us with a readable, illuminating study of the issues”

Author: Michael Zander
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781849465625
Price: £32

Three short words encompass the most fundamental principle of our constitution. “Rule of law” is a phrase which sustains a very heavy load. The words are simple. The concept is complex and multifaceted, and frequently deployed in argument. Yet critical earlier questions are not attended to and very rarely addressed. Where does the law which rules us come from? Who or what makes it? And by what process is it made? During my own professional life the law has changed dramatically; so indeed has the constitution itself. The momentum for further change is inevitable and the need to focus on these unanswered questions undiminished.

Timely & illuminating

This new edition of the important analysis of The Law-making Process by Professor Michael Zander is timely. Since the last edition a full decade of evolutionary change in the constitution and the process by which

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