Law and the Whirligig of Time

For over 30 years, first as a QC, then as a judge, and latterly as a visiting professor of law at Oxford, Stephen Sedley has written and lectured about aspects of the law that do not always get the attention they deserve. His first anthology of essays, 'Ashes and Sparks', was praised in the New York Times by Ian McEwan for its 'exquisite, finely balanced prose, the prickly humour, the knack of artful quotation and an astonishing historical grasp'. This volume contains recent articles by Sedley, many of them from the London Review of Books, and lectures given to a variety of audiences.