Keith Ewing, Joan Mahoney and Andrew Moretta, MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Abstract

MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law (1945–64) embarks on its analysis from the legal perspective (questions of authority, power and accountability) and the tradition of civil liberties. The material examined in the book includes security files at The National Archives which were hitherto unavailable to scholars coming from this tradition. What this book ultimately suggests is that even thoroughly criticized reading of the classical concept of the rule of law (Dicey) theoretically provides more protection for the civil liberties as compared to the system in which MI5 operated.