Table of Contents

1: Introduction
Part I: the Imperial Constitution
2: The Imperial Dominions
3: Parliamentary Sovereignty in the Empire and Commonwealth: Dicey's Dominions and Dogmas
4: Theories of Parliamentary Sovereignty after 1931: New and Revised
Part II: Constitution to Independence
5: canada I: Confederation and the Imperial Theory
6: Canada II: An Independent Constitutional Theory
7: Canada III: The Patriation Reference
8: New Zealand: Waitangi, Westminster, and Wellington
9: Australia I: Colonies, Conventions, and Canberra
10: Australia II: Westminster to Canberra
Part III: Constitutional Independence
11: Legal Continuity or Disguised Revolution?
12: Theoretical Approaches to Sovereignty and Legal System
13: Constitutional Continuity and Constitutional Independence
14: Conclusion

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Joint-Second Prize Winner of the Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, 2006

About the Author

Peter Crawford Oliver is Senior Lecturer at the School of Law, King's College London.

Reviews

Oliver has provided scholars..with a subtle, dense but always lucid account which adds a new historical, comparative, and conceptual sharpness. Edinburgh Law Review an excellent example of how history and legal theory can be mutually illuminating David Dyzenhaus, Public Law A work of formidable scholarship ... scholarly, rigorous and illuminating Andrew McDonald, Law and Politics Book Review A fascinating read. The Commonwealth Lawyer