Law in a Time of Crisis by Jonathan Sumption
What is the right relationship between the law and politics, judges and politicians?
time spent on Law in a Time of Crisis is time spent in the company of a brilliant mind considering interesting thing.. any person of broadly liberal instinct will find much in this enjoyable book to agree with and much that can improve one's way of thinking and of making an argument -- Daniel Finkelstein * the Times *
Sumption has always been more than just a lawyer. For many years he was the brilliant QC and then Supreme Court justice who somehow found time on the side to write a definitive, multivolume history of the Hundred Years War: a true Renaissance man -- David Runciman * Guardian *
Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees with it. -- Robert Tombs * Telegraph *
Praise for Trials of the State: Brisk, entertaining, brilliant ... one of the great lawyers of our time -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *
Magisterial -- Edward Fennell * The Times *
Elegant and crisply argued (Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of 2019) -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
The book is hard going, but rewarding. Sumption ... leads his readers persuasively to positions which, when they stop to think, they may not find comfortable -- Michael Fry * The National (Scotland) *
Sumption examines the increasingly difficult relationship between government and the courts... a former Supreme Court judge,[he] seems rather gloomy about democracy's future, but has produced a very readable analysis (The best current affairs and politics books of 2019) -- Roland White * Sunday Times *
Sumption has always been more than just a lawyer. For many years he was the brilliant QC and then Supreme Court justice who somehow found time on the side to write a definitive, multivolume history of the Hundred Years War: a true Renaissance man -- David Runciman * Guardian *
Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one disagrees with it. -- Robert Tombs * Telegraph *
Praise for Trials of the State: Brisk, entertaining, brilliant ... one of the great lawyers of our time -- Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *
Magisterial -- Edward Fennell * The Times *
Elegant and crisply argued (Best Politics and Current Affairs Books of 2019) -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
The book is hard going, but rewarding. Sumption ... leads his readers persuasively to positions which, when they stop to think, they may not find comfortable -- Michael Fry * The National (Scotland) *
Sumption examines the increasingly difficult relationship between government and the courts... a former Supreme Court judge,[he] seems rather gloomy about democracy's future, but has produced a very readable analysis (The best current affairs and politics books of 2019) -- Roland White * Sunday Times *
Lord Jonathan Sumption is a British judge and historian. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from 2012 to 2018. He is the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller Trials of the State (Profile, 2019), and has written several books of Medieval history including The Age of Pilgrimage, The Albigensian Crusade, and four books on the Hundred Years War, the third of which, Divided Houses, won the 2009 Wolfson History Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781788167116 |
| ISBN 10 | 1788167112 |
| Title | Law in a Time of Crisis |
| Author | Jonathan Sumption |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Profile Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-03-11 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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