The New Labour Constitution

Michael Gordon is Professor of Constitutional Law and Adam Tucker is Senior Lecturer in Law, both at the University of Liverpool, UK.

The New Labour Constitution: Twenty Years On: Introduction
Michael Gordon, University of Liverpool, UK and Adam Tucker, University of Liverpool, UK
1. Labour’s Constitutional Changes 1997–2010: Time for More
Lord Falconer of Thoroton, House of Lords, UK
2. Britain’s New Labour Constitution: Causes and Consequences
Rodney Brazier, University of Manchester, UK
3. The Human Rights Act 1998: Two Decades Swimming Upstream
Hélène Tyrrell, Newcastle University, UK
4. The Unintended Consequences of Legislative Constitutionalism: The Common Law Constitution and Judicial Comparativism
Se-shauna Wheatle, Durham University, UK
5. Judicial Policy and New Labour’s Constitutional Project
Graham Gee, University of Sheffield, UK
6. Devolution: A New Fundamental Principle of the UK Constitution
Chris MCCorkindale, University of Strathclyde, UK
7. The ‘Evolution’ of Devolution: Assessing Labour’s Legacy in England
Arianna Giovannini, De Montfort University, UK
8. ‘Three Harmless Words’: New Labour and Freedom of Information
Ben Worthy, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
9. What Was New Labour’s Vision for Parliament? And Did It Succeed?
Louise Thompson, University of Manchester, UK
10. New Labour’s Judicial Power Project
Roger Masterman, Durham University, UK
11. New Labour’s Secret National Security Constitution
Paul F Scott, University of Glasgow, UK
12. Individual Terrorist Suspects as the New Folk Devil: New Labour, Rights Tokenism and Security Compulsions
Rumyana van Ark (née Grozdanova), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
13. Revisiting the Administrative Justice Legacy of New Labour
Joe Tomlinson, University of York, UK and Richard Kirkham, University of Sheffield, UK
14. Referendums and New Labour’s Constitutional Reforms
Leah Trueblood, University of Oxford, UK
15. Neoliberalism, Labour Law and New Labour’s Turn to Constitutionalism
Robert Knox, University of Liverpool, UK
16. The Legacy of the New Labour Constitution and the Future of Labour Constitutionalism
Michael Gordon, University of Liverpool, UK and Adam Tucker, University of Liverpool, UK