Marshall, Geoffrey
MARSHALL, Geoffrey
MARSHALL, Geoffrey. British, b. 1929. Genres: Politics/Government, Civil liberties/Human rights, Law. Career: Queens College, Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Politics, 1957-93, Provost, 1993-99; Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, 1955-57. Andrew Dixon White Visiting Professor, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1985-91. Publications: Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Commonwealth, 1957; (co-author) Some Problems of the Constitution, 1959; Police and Government, 1965; Constitutional Theory, 1971; Constitutional Conventions, 1984; Ministerial Responsibility (1989). Died 2003.
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