The Foundations and Future of Public Law

Elizabeth Fisher is Professor of Environmental Law, Corpus Christi College and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. Her 2007 book, Risk Regulation and Administrative Constitutionalism, won the 2008 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2008. She is also author of Environmental Law: A Very Short Introduction and co-author of Fisher, Lange, and Scotford, Environmental Law: Text, Cases and Materials. She is General Editor of Journal of Environmental Law, Reviews Editor of the OJLS, and has served as the editor of the Legislation and Reports Section of the Modern Law Review. Jeff King is Professor of Law at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is the co-editor of Current Legal Problems, formerly the Co-Editor of the UK Constitutional Law Blog, and sits on the editorial committee of Public Law. His Judging Social Rights won the 2014 SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship. He is presently an Executive Member of the UK Constitutional Law Association, and member of the UK Study of Parliament Group. In 2017 he was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Law. Alison Young is currently the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College. She is an executive member of the UK Constitutional Law Association and co-editor of the UKCLA blog. She is also on the editorial Board of European Public Law. She is the author of Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution, for which she was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship from 2013-15, and Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act.