256 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
256 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
256 Pages
by
Birkbeck Law Press
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Bringing a postcolonial perspective to UK constitutional debates and including a detailed and comparative engagement with the constitutions of Britain’s ex-colonies, this book is an original reflection upon the relationship between the written and the unwritten constitution.
Can a nation have an unwritten constitution? While written constitutions both found and define modern nations, Britain is... Read more
1. Introduction. Constitutions: Writing Nations, Reading Difference 2. Theorizing Constitutional Texts 3. 'In the Name of God and of the Dead Generations': Proclaiming the Irish Republic 4. 'The Treaty Always Speaks': Reading Aotearoa New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti o Waitangi 5. 'Fracturing the Skeleton' of the Law: The Mabo Decision and the Re-Constitution of Australia 6. Conjuring Spectres: Locating the Constitution of Britain in its Post-Imperial Moment 7. Conclusion: Re-Reading Constitutional Texts
Biography
Judith Pryor is an historian at the Waitangi Tribunal, New Zealand
