Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights: A Critical Introduction

best language among other writers of the subject

One of the best Constitutional & Administrative Law textbooks around.

Purchased as a gift - very pleased.

Extremely useful and well written.

As a non-UK law student without any understanding of UK's political and constitutional structure, I used to struggle with my Public Law lecture and exams. So I have read all the most highly rated textbooks on the subject: (1) Hilaire Barnett's C&A Law, (2) Bradley, Ewing or Knight's C&A Law, (3) Loveland's Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Human Rights and (4) Sueur and Sunkin's Public Law.For Loveland's book, I think it is the best among these. The background or history given at the start of each chapter makes it more sense to me. It also develops constitutional doctrines on a case-by-case basis rather than simply jumping into the current state of law, so that you can see the development of the law, which is helpful to writing an essay. The summary of the law, analysis and critique are sufficiently clear, and most importantly, it helped me get >70 in Public Law exam!!For Barnett's book, it is truly a standard textbook on the subject which explains concept in a neat and concise way. By "neat and concise", it also means that it may not be clear enough for students who are completely clueless about UK political structure. Compared to Loveland's book, the writing style is less clear.For Bradley, Ewing or Knight's book, it keeps complicating things and explains concept in too deep a way. The writing style is not reader friendly. It is not suitable for new Public Law student.For Sueur and Sunkin's Public Law, it is the worst among these 4 books. The authors substitute academic articles or cases for essential conclusions and analysis of the law. Overall speaking, it is just a collection of cases and materials without much analysis or critiques of the authors. As academic articles and judgment are not reader friendly, relying on this book may cost you much more time than using other books. If you are a part-time student who wants to understand the subject quickly, this is definitely not the book. (To be fair, there are some good books in the Text, Cases and Materials series, e.g. Equity and Trusts, Contract and Criminal Law, but not the Public Law one)