Christopher Knight – författare

Decades of experience and expertise in one text, delivering an accessible and comprehensive grounding in Public Law for all law students and practitioners.

Bradley, Ewing and Knight Constitutional and Administrative Law, 18th edition is the latest version of one of the UK's best-known textbooks in law, offering you unique expert analysis coming from a team of leading figures in the field.

Well-known for its authority and reliability, the book has been widely recognised and cited by courts at almost every level in the United Kingdom, including the Supreme Court, as well as courts in other jurisdictions.

This comprehensive text reflects the framework of contemporary constitutional and administrative or public law modules. It provides unrivalled detail and a range of knowledge in its field, by dividing the study into four parts: i) the core principles of the constitution, ii) the institutions of government, iii) civil liberties and human rights, and iv) judicial review and legal accountability of government.

The organisation and structure of the textbook make it relevant for multiple modules, whether you are studying a general, Year 1 course or a more advanced course on Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and Administrative Law.

This latest edition provides you with a detailed understanding of the key, essential cases that have influenced UK's constitution via a range of extended summaries, prompting individual reflection and group discussion in class.

As it continues to evolve, reflecting the major changes in the field, this textbook is the definitive guide on all aspects of the constitution and an essential tool for the students who intend to practice the relevant fields in law.

"A traditional textbook with a contemporary feel." Professor Stephen Bailey, University of Nottingham

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Constitutional and Administrative Law is the definitive guide to the UK Constitution. Widely cited by courts, including the Supreme Court, it’s an essential tool for students studying relevant fields of law. Guided by authors with decades of experience and practical experience, you’ll evaluate key UK cases from both a theoretical and practical perspective, building analytical skills needed across legal specialties.

The 19th Edition reflects major changes in the fast-moving, ever-growing field of public law. Updates are informed by the period of political instability after 2022, when the previous edition was published. A major focus is the upheaval to UK domestic law and policy in the aftermath of Covid and Brexit, as well as the constitutional implications of recent domestic political volatility.

Christopher J. Knight’s Penelope Fitzgerald and the Consolation of Fiction is a study of the British author Penelope Fitzgerald (1916 – 2000), attending to her nine novels, especially as viewed through the lens both of "late style" (she published her first novel, The Golden Child, at age sixty) and, in her words, of "consolation, that is, for doubts and fears as well as for naked human loss." As in Shakespeare’s late, religiously inflected, romances, the two concerns coincide; and Fitzgerald’s ostensible comedies are marked by a clear experience of the tragic and the palpable sense of a world that verges on the edge of indifference to human loss. Yet Fitzgerald, her late age pessimism notwithstanding, seeks (with the aid of her own religious understandings), in each of her novels, to wrestle meaning, consolation and even comedy from circumstances not noticeably propitious. Or as she herself memorably spoke of her own "deepest convictions": "I can only say that however close I’ve come, by this time, to nothingness, I have remained true to my deepest convictions—I mean to the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as a comedy, for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?" The recipient of Britain’s Booker Prize and America’s National Book Critics Circle Award, Penelope Fitzgerald’s reputation as a novelist, and author more generally, has grown, since her death, significantly, to the point that she is now widely judged one of Britain’s finest writers, comparable in worth to the likes of Jane Austen, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.