Professor Jo Murkens

Additional Teachers: Professor Tarunabh Khaitan, Professor Thomas Poole, Dr Andrew Scott, and Professor Conor Gearty.

This course is compulsory on the BA in Anthropology and Law and LLB in Laws. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

The course covers: the conceptual framework of public law; central government and the executive; parliament; multi-layered government (the European Union, devolution and local government); judicial review; and civil liberties and human rights.

This course will have a minimum of two hours of teaching content each week in Autumn Term and Winter Term in the form of two lectures (every week) and a one hour class (week 2 onwards). This course includes a reading week in Weeks 6 of Autumn Term and Winter Term.

Students will be expected to produce one essay in the AT and one essay in the WT.

Other assignments will be set by the class teacher or the course convenor, as required.

Basic texts: Martin Loughlin, The British Constitution: A Very Short Introduction 2nd edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023); A. Le Sueur, M. Sunkin & J. Murkens, Public Law: Text, Cases, and Materials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 5th edn, 2023).

Exam (100%, duration: 3 hours, reading time: 15 minutes) in the spring exam period.