We are delighted to announce the third issue of our ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Law Working Papers for 2017.
In this issue, Michael A. Wilkinson examines the autonomy of the political realm at the foundations of public law and exposes its fragility from a material perspective; Martin Loughlin argues that today’s political constitutionalists have distorted John Griffith’s method and thereby misconstrued its significance to British constitutional thinking; Jacco Bomhoff critiques and offers alternatives to Loughlin’s characterisation of both law and religion in his account of public law; Nicola Lacey takes up the story of the gradual marginalisation of criminal women in both legal and literary history, asking whether a criminal heroine such as Moll Flanders is thinkable again, and what this can tell us about conceptions of women as subjects of criminal law; Thomas Poole questions the continued existence of prerogative as a meaningful juridical category within UK constitutional law; Thomas Poole considers Locke’s analysis of the federative (or foreign affairs) power, presented as a distinct category separate from both the ordinary and special prerogative powers of the executive, and argues that Locke downplays its juridical dimensions; and Krisztián Pósch reviews causal mediation analysis as a method for estimating and assessing direct and indirect effects in experimental criminology and testing procedural justice theory and shows that it is a versatile tool that can salvage experiments with systematic yet ambiguous treatment effects.