Crown and Constitutional Reform

The Crown and Constitutional Reform is an innovative, interdisciplinary exchange between experts in law, anthropology and politics about the Crown, constitutional monarchy and the potential for constitutional reform in Commonwealth common law countries.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: The Crown and Constitutional Reform
1. The Crown as Proxy for the State? Opening up the Black Box of Constitutional Monarchy
2. From Bagehot to Brexit: The Monarch's Rights to be Consulted, to Encourage and to Warn
3. Will New Zealand Inevitably Become a Republic, 'Just as Britain Will Be Blurred into Europe'?
4. The Supreme Court and the Miller Case: More Reasons Why the UK Needs a Written Constitution
5. Royal Succession and the Constitutional Politics of the Canadian Crown, 1936-2013
6. Locating the Crown in Australian Social Life
7. The Many Faces of the Crown and the Implications for the Future of the New Zealand Constitution
8. The 'Unsettledness' of Treaty Claim Settlements
9. The Crown: Is It Still 'White' and 'English-Speaking'?
10. From Loyal Dominion to New Republic: Which Realm Will Get There First?
11. When the Queen is Dead
12. The Queen is Dead! Long Live the President?
13. Reflections of the 19th Governor-General of New Zealand

About the author

Professor Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology and Head of Department, Goldsmiths University of London, UK.
Sally Raudon is doctoral candidate in social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Professor Emeritus David V Williams is Research Fellow at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Summary

The Crown and Constitutional Reform is an innovative, interdisciplinary exchange between experts in law, anthropology and politics about the Crown, constitutional monarchy and the potential for constitutional reform in Commonwealth common law countries.

Product details

• Authors: Cris Raudon Shore
• Assisted by: Sally Raudon (Editor), Cris Shore (Editor), David V Williams (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.2020
• EAN: 9780367511647
• ISBN: 978-0-367-51164-7
• No. of pages: 140
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Canada, EDUCATION / General, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Anthropology, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, EDUCATION / Leadership, International Law, British & Irish history, Politics and government, Constitution: government & the state, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Constitutional & administrative law, Constitutional and administrative law: general