Introduction - The Case for the Political Constitution, Richard Johnson (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) and Yuan Yi Zhu (University of Oxford, UK) Part I : The Political Constitution and the Law 1. A (Brief) Case Against Constitutional Supremacy, Brian Christopher Jones (University of Sheffield, UK) 2. Judicial Encroachment on the Political Constitution?, Carol Harlow KC (LSE, UK) 3. Legislative Freedom and Its Consequences, Richard Ekins (University of Oxford, UK) 4. A Great Forgetting: Common Law, Natural Law, and the Human Rights Act, Michael Foran (University of Glasgow, UK) 5. Law and Politics: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, Rt Hon Sir Robert Buckland KC MP (Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, 2019-21) Part II: Westminster and Whitehall 6. The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011: Out, Out Brief Candle, Robert Craig (University of Bristol, UK) 7. Reform of the House of Commons: A Sceptical View on Progress, Tony McNulty (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 8.

The House of Lords: A Sceptical View of Big Bang Reform, Philip Norton, Lord Norton of Louth (Hull, UK) 9. Accountability and Electoral Reform, Jasper Miles (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) 10. Delegated Legislation in an Unprincipled Constitution, Hayley Hooper (University of Oxford, UK) 11. A Defence of the Dual Legal-Political Nature of the Attorney General for England and Wales, Conor Casey (University of Liverpool, UK) 12. The Public Appointments System, John Bowers KC (University of Oxford, UK) 13. Standards and the British Constitution, Gillian Peele (University of Oxford, UK) Part III: Beyond Westminster and Whitehall 14. Devolving and Not Forgetting, Vernon Bogdanor (King's College London, UK) 15. Scottish Secession and the Political Constitution of the UK, Peter Reid and Asanga Welikala (both of University of Edinburgh, UK) 16.

Northern Ireland's Constitutional Position in the UK, Kate Hoey, Baroness Hoey of Lylehill and Rathlin (Chair of the Northern Ireland Select Committee, 2019) 17. The European Union and the British Constitution, Joanna George (University of Cambridge, UK) & Rt Hon Gisela Stuart, Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (Chair of Vote Leave) 18. Against (Many Kinds of) Representation, Richard Tuck (University of Harvard, USA).