Includes bibliographical references and index.

Beginning at the beginning : the relationships between politics and law / David Feldman -- Lawyers, MPs and judges / Ross Cranston -- Lawyers in the House of Commons / David Howarth -- The form and language of legislation / Alan Rodger -- Legislation and politics / Stephen Laws -- Whitehall, transparency, and the law / David Seymour -- The role of public international laywers in government / Michael Wood -- Government legal advisers through the ethics looking glass / Matthew Windsor -- Law reform in a political environment : the work of the Law Commissions / Elizabeth Cooke and Hector MacQueen -- Parliament Act 1911 in its historical context / Philip Norton -- The Parliament Act 1949 / Chris Ballinger -- The realities of the Parliament Act 1911 / Daniel Greenberg -- The impact of the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 on a government's management of its legislative timetable, on parliamentary procedure and on legislative drafting / Rhodri Walters -- International law and Great Power politics / Matthew Parish -- Law and democracy in a human rights framework / Philip Sales -- Politics, law and constitutional moments in the UK / Dawn Oliver -- Looking back and moving on / David Feldman.