Professor Jeffrey Goldsworthy is Professor of Law at Monash University, Australia
Professor Goldsworthy has written an important and valuable book, and historians of English political thought will find in it a broad and thoroughly informed account of the development of ideas on parliamentary sovereignty. History of Political Thought The historical arguement is persuasively made ... Geoffrey Marshall, TLS Jeffrey Goldsworthy of Monash University now looses a vigorous counter-blast on both the historical and philosophical fronts. Geoffrey Marshall, TLS Goldsworthy's use of secondary sources and his scholarship are admirable. The style may be allusive, but it is nonetheless very readable and his arguments in the chapter dedicated to the philosophical foundations of the doctrine are clearly written and accessible. Patrick Birkinshaw, THES. This valuable book will be found challenging by the critics of parliamentary sovereignty. In its mild and persuasive way, it leaves their arguments in shreds ... This book will prove impossible to ignore in that debate; Indeed, its arguments will dominate it. Christopher Forsyth, The Cambridge Law Journal 2000