Searching for the state -- From state as official to state as machine : unifying political will -- Sovereign, state and corporation : political theory and analytical jurisprudence -- Civil society: the english fellowships, the state, and the origins of welfare -- The private life of the state : the crown and the public sphere -- Public law without a state : the new administrative justice -- No rights against the state : government wrongdoing and the common law -- Privatization, deregulation and reconceiving of the state -- Rights against the state
Summary
Janet McLean explores how British legal thought has imagined the state and the public sphere since 1832
