LSE Law Working Papers, Winter 2017

23 January 2018

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We are delighted to announce the third issue of our LSE Law Working Papers for 2017. 

In this issue, Michael A. Wilkinson (WP17/2017)  examines the autonomy of the political realm at the foundations of public law and exposes its fragility from a material perspective; Martin Loughlin  (WP18/2017) argues that today’s political constitutionalists have distorted John Griffith’s method and thereby misconstrued its significance to British constitutional thinking; Jacco Bomhoff (WP19/2017) critiques and offers alternatives to Loughlin’s characterisation of both law and religion in his account of public law; Nicola Lacey (WP20/2017) 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 (WP21/2017)  questions the continued existence of prerogative as a meaningful juridical category within UK constitutional law; Thomas Poole (WP22/2017) 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 (WP23/2017) 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.