Janet McLeanSearching for the State in British Legal Thought
Janet McLean is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, and a public and administrative lawyer.
Introduction
1. Searching for the state in the idea of the crown
2. From the state as official to the state as machine: the nineteenth-century development of bureaucracy
3. The state as sovereign and the state as corporation: Austin and Hart in political context
4. Civil society: the English fellowships and the state
5. The private life of the state: the crown and the public sphere
6. A public law without a state: the political commitments of the new administrative law
7. No rights against the state: government wrongdoing and the law
8. Privatisation, deregulation and reconceiving the state
9. (Human) rights against the state
10. Prospectus.
