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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2025

Edited by
David Capper ,
Conor McCormick  and
Norma Dawson
David Capper
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast
Conor McCormick
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast
Norma Dawson
Affiliation:
Queen's University Belfast

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Law and Constitutional Change , pp. vii - viii
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025
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Contents

  1. List of Contributors

  2. Foreword

    Patrick Geoghegan and John Gordon

  3. Acknowledgements

  4. Editors’ Introduction

    David Capper, Conor McCormick and N. M. Dawson

  5. 1‘Another Sort of Treason’: The Troubled Home of Husband-Killing in Late Medieval Common Law

    Gwen Seabourne

  6. 2The Origins of the Statute of Uses

    A. J. Hannay

  7. 3Examining the Doctrine of Art and Part in Early Modern Scotland

    Stephanie Dropuljic

  8. 4The Beginnings of Judicial Review

    Sir John Baker

  9. 5The Aspirations of James Stuart

    Ian Ward

  10. 6A British Common Law? Public Law after the 1707 Union between England and Scotland

    Robert Brett Taylor

  11. 7Quo Warranto and the Borough Office Holder, 1700–1792

    Kevin Costello

  12. 8Land, Credit and the Constitution: Debtor Protections and Catholic Rights in Eighteenth-Century Ireland

    Julia Rudolph

  13. 9Constitutional Change, Law and Grattan’s Parliament

    Maike Schwiddessen

  14. 10Sir John Ross Bt: The Last Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 1921–1922

    Richard McBride

  15. 11Lord Birkenhead, Ambiguity and the Irish Border: Lawyers and the Anglo-Irish Treaty

    Colum Kenny

  16. 12The British–Irish Negotiations on the Drafting of the 1922 Constitution of the Irish Free State

    Thomas Mohr

  17. 13No Way to Run a Railroad: The Decline of the Great Northern Railway of Ireland after Partition

    C. R. G. Murray

  18. 14Fortuna Fortes Adiuvat: The Importance of Individuals in Estonian Constitutional Change

    Merike Ristikivi, Katre Luhamaa and Karin Sein

  19. 15First Nations Constitutional Recognition in Australia: Addressing Foundational Failures of Rule of Law

    Gabrielle Appleby and Megan Davis

  20. 16The Rise and Fall of the UK Human Rights Act

    Brenda Hale

  21. 17Courting the Past: Reconstructing Ireland’s Lost Legal Records, circa 1300–1922

    Peter Crooks, Timothy Murtagh and Ciarán Wallace, with Joel Herman

  22. Index

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