Public Law for Everyone
Professor Mark Elliott
My series of 1,000 words posts sets out to explain key public law principles and issues concisely and accessibly. It’s aimed primarily at law students, but may be of interest to others who are new to the subject.
Each post in my 1,000 words series addresses — in roughly a thousand words — a key concept, issue, case or debate relevant to Public Law. The intention is that 1,000 words will evolve into a resource that will address a broad range of key issues in Public Law, and that it will help students better to engage with crucial aspects of the subject. Posts in the 1,000 words series are not intended to replace traditional resources, such as textbooks, but rather to complement them, including by providing additional perspectives and highlighting relationships between the often-interconnected issues that must be confronted if Public Law is to be understood. 1,000 words posts do not aim to provide an exhaustive overview; rather, they seek to offer a particular perspective, or to tackle aspects of topics that students commonly find difficult. Links to each 1,000 words post can be found below. If you wish to receive 1,000 words posts (along with other posts) via email, you can subscribe to the blog. You can also receive notifications of new posts by following me on Twitter.
Aimed at students taking a range of public law modules, Public Law combines comprehensive coverage of the subject with depth of analysis. Written in an accessible style, it is the UK’s best-selling textbook in the field. The third edition of the book, written by Mark Elliott and Robert Thomas, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017.
This collection of essays, edited by Mark Elliott and Kirsty Hughes, examines the extent to which the common law protects, and is capable of protecting, constitutional rights, taking recent UK Supreme Court jurisprudence on this matter as a point of departure. Common Law Constitutional Rights was published by Hart Publishing in 2020.
Administrative Law is a leading text on English administrative law. The fifth edition, written by Mark Elliott and Jason Varuhas, was published by Oxford University Press in 2017. The book combines carefully selected excerpts from key cases and other materials with detailed commentary and analysis.
