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ROBERT HAZELL and Richard Rawlings (eds), Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution, [Exeter], Imprint Academic, 2005, 338 pp., ISBN 1 84540 037 2, hb. £35.00.
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Devolution, Law Making and the Constitution is an important book in the growing body of literature on the 1998 devolution settlement in the United Kingdom. There is a considerable body of published contributions to this debate, ranging from Michael O’Neill’s (ed.) Devolution and British Politics (Pearson Longman, 2004), to F.N. Forman’s Constitutional Change in the United Kingdom (Routledge, 2002), to Alan Trench’s (ed.) The Dynamics of Devolution: The State of the Nations 2005 (Imprint Academic, 2005). Political scientists, constitutional lawyers and policy makers have contributed to the debate as the process evolved and as important questions of constitution making arose in a political system without a formal single ‘written constitution’ document or, as yet, a Supreme Court to pronounce on its working. In this debate, the Constitution Unit of University College, London, has played a major part. The present volume, edited by Robert Hazell, Director of the Unit, and Richard