Authority in Our Time: Accounting for the Concepts of Prerogative and Equity in the Legal Order

Thomas Poole, The Strange Death of Prerogative in England, 43 Univ WAL Rev 42 (2018).

Larissa Katz

As a private law theorist, I have been captivated recently by the work of public lawyer Thomas Poole on the concept of prerogative. Poole developed his account most fully in his analytically brilliant and deeply learned book, Reason of State: Law, Prerogative and Empire (Cambridge 2015). Poole has continued to refine his thinking about the concept of prerogative in more recent work, including The […]