Brings issues of legal theory to life by relating them to real problems in British politics. Questions about human rights, the rule of law, the unwritten constitution, the role of judges, law and politics and civil disobediance are discussed. `Both as a technique for selling theory to students, and as a way of introducing lay readers to controversies over the role of law and legal institutions in the body politic, the case-system [employed by the author] has much to recommend it, and this book, always clear and perceptive, is a good advertisement for it.' - Times Literary Supplement `... brilliantly achieved ... a stimulating read.' - Lord Wilberforce, Political Studies Jeremy Waldron