随着乌托邦式“历史终结”观念的淡化，它被对法律和宪法改革的日益增长的渴望所取代，以解决二十一世纪初的独特问题，包括对安全和风险，不稳定和危机的担忧。金融市场与主权国家之间的关系，永恒的战争以及政治腐败。但是，这些期望通常与当代社会和政治理论以及越来越多的宪法专业人士将政治概念化的方式相矛盾。<br>这个独特的法学硕士学位考虑了英国对政治的宪政主义方法的传统忽视-这种情况现在正在迅速改变。本课程侧重于两个相关但截然不同的过程：法律危机和向国家权力特殊模式的转变，以及法律缓解多种危机的需求。人们提出了以下问题
As the utopian idea of 'the end of history' falters, it has been replaced by a growing desire for law and constitution reforms to tackle the distinctive problems of the early twenty-first century, including concerns about security and risk, instability and crisis in the relationship between financial markets and sovereign states, perpetual war, and corruption in politics. These expectations, however, are often at odds with the way contemporary social and political theories, and a growing number of constitutional law specialists, conceptualise politics.This distinctive Master's degree in law considers the traditional neglect of constitutionalist approaches to politics in Britain - something that is now changing fast. This course focuses on two related, but distinct, processes: the crisis of law and the shift towards exceptional modes of state power, and the demand that law mitigates manifold crises. Questions are raised about law as solution, about its role in the violent imposition of liberal social and market relations, and whether or not we may be able to imagine a different sort of crisis, a different relation between law and the future.