Dr John Stanton is Senior Lecturer in Law at The City Law School, City, University of London, specializing in localism and comparative constitutional law. He has considerable experience researching and teaching public law, and has also worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Malta. John is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, the UK Constitutional Law Association and the Political Studies Association.

Dr Craig Prescott is a Lecturer in Law at Bangor University, and specialises in UK constitutional law and politics, with a particular focus on the monarchy and Parliament. He previously taught at Kings College London, The University of Manchester and at The University of Winchester, where Craig founded the Centre for Parliament and Public Law. Craig frequently appears in the media discussing royal, political and constitutional affairs and he is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, the UK Constitutional Law Association, and the Study of Parliament Group.

• Part I: Constitutional Principles


• 1: The UK constitution


• 2: The institutions of government and the separation of powers


• 3: The rule of law


• 4: Parliamentary sovereignty: an overview


• 5: Parliamentary sovereignty, the European Union, and Brexit


• Part II: Institutions and Governance


• 6: The Crown, the royal prerogative, and constitutional conventions


• 7: Central government


• 8: Parliament


• 9: Devolution


• 10: Localism and regionalism


• Part III: Judicial Review of Administrative Action


• 11: Judicial review: access to review and remedies


• 12: Judicial review: illegality


• 13: Judicial review: unreasonableness and proportionality


• 14: Judicial review: procedural impropriety


• Part IV: Administrative Justice


• 15: Tribunals


• 16: Ombudsmen


• 17: Public inquiries


• Part V: Human Rights


• 18: The European Convention on Human Rights and the Human Rights Act 1998


• 19: Human rights in the UK: public order and police powers