What is the right relationship between the law and politics, judges and politicians?
Lord Jonathan Sumption is a British judge and historian. He served as a Justice of the Supreme Court from 2012 to 2018. He is the author of the Sunday Times Bestseller Trials of the State (Profile, 2019), and has written several books of Medieval history including The Age of Pilgrimage, The Albigensian Crusade, and four books on the Hundred Years War, the third of which, Divided Houses, won the 2009 Wolfson History Prize.
time spent on Law in a Time of Crisis is time spent in the company
of a brilliant mind considering interesting thing ... any person of
broadly liberal instinct will find much in this enjoyable book to
agree with and much that can improve one's way of thinking and of
making an argument
*the Times*
Sumption has always been more than just a lawyer. For many years he
was the brilliant QC and then Supreme Court justice who somehow
found time on the side to write a definitive, multivolume history
of the Hundred Years War: a true Renaissance man
*Guardian*
Thoughtful, stimulating and even entertaining ... Lord Sumption's
opinion is always worth listening to, even - or especially - if one
disagrees with it.
*Telegraph*
Praise for Trials of the State:
Brisk, entertaining, brilliant ... one of the great lawyers of our
time
*Sunday Times*
Magisterial
*The Times*
Elegant and crisply argued (Best Politics and Current Affairs Books
of 2019)
*The Times*
The book is hard going, but rewarding. Sumption ... leads his
readers persuasively to positions which, when they stop to think,
they may not find comfortable
*The National (Scotland)*
Sumption examines the increasingly difficult relationship between
government and the courts... a former Supreme Court judge,[he]
seems rather gloomy about democracy's future, but has produced a
very readable analysis (The best current affairs and politics books
of 2019)
*Sunday Times*
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