Constitutional & Administrative Law, 11th edition
Title overview
Encourage your students' skills in public law and help them think like a lawyer with Revel, the interactive learning platform
Revel for Constitutional and Administrative Law, helps your students develop their skills and apply public law to real-life scenarios through activities, self-tests, and writing tasks. Revel's interactive learning design coupled with unrivalled content offers your students the opportunity to give client advice and think like a lawyer based on evidence from real-life case files.
Hallmark features of this title
A teaching and learning platform integrating dynamic interactives into a compelling digital narrative
- In-chapter and “Apply the Law” multiple-choice questions and quizzes support your students' understanding of the content presented in the chapters and the application of British law.
- Deeper learning through questions based on engagement pieces and snippets from newspaper articles, encourage your students to structure their writing and sharpen their critical thinking skills.
- Simulations associated with chapter topics encourage your students to think like lawyers and develop their legal practice skills in a safe, realistic scenario.
Accessible, reader-friendly content designed specifically for LLB and GDL students
- A range of cases reflect some of the most recent developments in the area of public law.
- Friendly writing style and accessible approach help you organise your - often overwhelming- study material into manageable chunks.
- The content provides an effortless knowledge both of modern controversies and other key topics falling within Public law.
Revel offers a combination of leading content with a series of activities, self-tests, and writing tasks, to encourage your students to grow their confidence and develop their skills of applying the most complex legal concepts in public law to real-life problem scenarios.
Revel allows you to track your students’ progress and support them based on the areas they need to improve.
New and updated features of this title
Updated annually to ensure you and your students have the latest developments in law within the text.
Recent updates included:
- Provisions on public order under the Police, Crime and Sentencing Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023
- Implications of the European Union (Future Relationship) Act 2020
In response to research requests, we are introducing two new enhancements to this product:
1. Within certain chapters’ Apply the Law problem scenario, additional question(s) based on the Single Best Answer format set out by the Solicitors Regulation Authority for the Solicitors’ Qualifying Examination (SQE). These questions are designed to prepare undergraduate students for the SQE Part 1. They reflect the high importance of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) in law teaching.
2. A new testbank of multiple choice questions, designed to be used for assessments (ie no feedback / correct answer is shown). These testbanks are a mixture of scaffolded MCQs and Single Best Answer MCQs for each chapter. They are available to download from this website, for uploading into your virtual learning environment: Constitutional & Administrative Law
The text has been generally updated with developments to UK/EU relationship for 2025.
Key features
Features of Pearson Revel for the 11th Edition
An interactive learning environment driving student engagement and class participation
- Revel combines market-leading content with videos, interactives, quizzes and writing assignments integrated throughout to support your students’ understanding.
- Course content is broken down into manageable chunks to facilitate learning of more complex subjects and often overwhelming amount of content.
- Open-response questions allow your students to apply the concepts introduced and access automatic, detailed feedback that will help them sharpen their critical thinking skills.
- Simulations associated with chapter topics encourage your students to think like lawyers and develop their legal practice skills in a safe, realistic scenario.
A range of features and assessments allow you to track your students’ progress and direct your teaching
- Revel allows you to set flexible assignments, assess your students’ progress at a glance, create assignments and receive a clearer view of class results.
- Formative and summative assessments and the powerful analytics tool within Revel allow you to monitor your students' progress and improve results.
- In-chapter and “Apply the Law” multiple-choice questions and quizzes allow your students to test their understanding of the content presented in the chapters and the application of British law.
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Table of contents
- 1 Introduction to constitutional and administrative law
- 2. The characteristics of the constitution
- 3. Fundamental constitutional doctrines
- 4. Sources of constitutional and administrative law
- 5. The European Union: British membership, institutions
- 6. Brexit (British withdrawal from the European Union)
- 7. The franchise andthe electorate
- 8. The House of Commons: Members of Parliament
- 9. The House of Commons: principal functions
- 10. The House of Lords
- 11. Parliamentary privilege
- 12. The Prime Minister and Cabinet
- 13. The royal prerogative
- 14. Legal liability of the Crown and public authorities
- 15. Judicial review:nature and grounds for
- 16. Judicial review: applications for, exclusion of, and exclusivity
- 17. The European Convention on Human Rights
- 18. The Human Rights Act 1998
Author bios
Alex Carroll, MPhil, LLB, Cert Ed, has thirty-five years’ experience of teaching and publishing material in Constitutional and Administrative law at under and post graduate levels. He was formerly Senior Lecturer in Law at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has also taught at the University of Manchester, Keele University and the University of Hong Kong.