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There's only one week left to apply for a fully funded PhD position on the project "Taming the Dark Energy of EU Law: The European Union’s Unwritten Constitution". Deadline - 28 February Find out more: www.law.ed.ac.uk/study/resear...

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Looking forward to being part of this hybrid panel discussion on 11 March exploring participatory democracy, systems thinking and Higher Ed reform across the UK, USA and India. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interlinki...

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Proper policy making for a piece of legislation with the seismic consequences that assisted suicide legislation has would have had extensive pre legislative consultation to test the various approaches rather than make policy on the hoof during the legislative process.

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Looking forward to this talk on the UK’s role in a disrupted world in a couple of weeks’ time in central London - register below for tickets!

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Our call for papers for June 2026 Pontignano Conference on#sustainability is out!!! Please come and present!!! Deadline March 15 @sirigloppen.bsky.social @iureamicorum.bsky.social @itziargomez.bsky.social @veroniqueboillet.bsky.social @giacomogiorgini.bsky.social blog-iacl-aidc.org/cfp/2025/2/4...

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Looking ahead to the start of a new year at the IACL-AIDC Blog, with some excellent symposia coming up. Delighted to continue to contribute to the work we’re doing as Co-Editor! blog-iacl-aidc.org/2025-posts/2...

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Paolo Sandro: The Rule of Guidance? Blog Series Introduction ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/01/27/p...

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Interesting to see advocacy for the sort of ‘strategic autonomy’ usually used to describe India’s foreign policy - and raises questions about where a more values-based approach to international relations goes from here. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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After Justin Trudeau's announcement that 🇨🇦 Parliament would be prorogued until March 24, a judicial review application was filed challenging the prorogation. VANESSA MACDONNELL (vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social) on what we know about the legal challenge so far. verfassungsblog.de/canada-proro...

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Found this incredibly useful when looking at constituent power in devolved contexts in the UK - well worth reading!

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Thought this was a great discussion of the history behind party members’ involvement in leadership elections - with some very considered views on how to move forwards. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...

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ON THE BLOG: How to improve parliamentary scrutiny of the assisted dying bill @danielgover.bsky.social makes four suggestions for how parliamentary scrutiny of the assisted dying bill could be improved.

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A few thoughts around participatory democracy, the need for tech to scale this up and the need for tech regulation, based on a recent discussion on the subject. icfs.org.uk/evolving-dem...

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Ignoring the title, this is perhaps one of the better made cases for greater public consultation on the assisted dying Bill - which in this case would help to bring diverse perspectives into the debate. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Our Class of 2024 is graduating today! 🎉 Congratulations to all of you on this achievement. We hope you have a wonderful time celebrating with friends and family. #EdinburghGrad

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Very good thread by @rolandmcs.bsky.social on the history of opposition to the ECHR. His conclusion is a call to arms: defenders of the ECHR/HRA - & judicial review more generally - need to explain to all our fellow citizens why they are essential to democracy and the accountability of state power.

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Join us on Nov 22, 17:00 (GMT) for our next Legal Philosophy seminar! Sara Canduzzi @saracanduzzi.bsky.social (PhD candidate, Univ. of Edinburgh) will present "Situating Authority within Theories of Legitimacy beyond the State." Register to receive the paper + meeting link: forms.gle/bf3ccyEk4UhW...

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"what about the head of the Department of Government Efficiency?" "you already have one" "we have one, yes. what about SECOND head of the Department of Government Efficiency?"

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Great to be back in Edinburgh yesterday to talk about my PhD research on constituent power in the UK at the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law! www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Very interesting piece on how the practical impact of s28(7) of the Scotland Act has been altered by the courts.

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This buys HE some time, but the whole funding model needs a rethink. That should include restoring the "cap" for individual unis, proper maintenance grants (so students can be students), & an end to soaring interest rates that drive up debt long after students graduate. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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New UK Constitution Monitoring Group report out today consoc.org.uk/publications...

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Today, most people in India and the Indian diaspora will celebrate Diwali. We have a slightly different, much darker and much more fun celebration in Bengal. Kali Puja. This is the story of a goddess who is the most efficient killing machine in the Hindu pantheon and a feminist icon. Buckle up. 1/

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Over the next few weeks, the IACL-AIDC Blog is hosting a new symposium on how federalism shapes and counters democratic backsliding, against the context of elections this year. For updates, please sign up to the mailing list on our website! The first post is here: blog-iacl-aidc.org/2024-posts/2...

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Getting the word out on the Law and Democracy Network in the Faculty of Law, Oxford. We are a forum for interdisciplinary discussions on issues at the intersection of law and democracy. We have a Global South focus. All our events are hybrid Read more about us here www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-and-demo...

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Listened to this interesting episode on AI and democracy this morning: the risks are increasingly well-known, but the opportunities are less so - are there examples other than vTaiwan/Pol.is out there? www.tortoisemedia.com/audio/ai-and...

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The sheer fragmentation of the 2024 outcome is still not being discussed or thought about enough. Five parties (Lab, Con, LD, Ref, Grn) getting substantial shares of the vote in most of Eng, while in Scotland and Wales (and many bits of Eng too) it is six

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Exploring legislative drafting in my thesis has thrown up certain insights into the functioning of democracy which are as interesting as they are uh...eyebrow raising. During the drafting of the Bill that took us into the EU (or EC as it was then) for example 1/

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I wrote quite a personal piece about racism now and racism then. Have a read…. www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04/a...

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New post | Saving the Union? Philip Rycroft on Whitehall and the Scottish independence referendum Some thoughts prompted by Philip Rycroft's excellent recent talk. publiclawforeveryone.com/2024/10/02/s... @bennettinstitute.bsky.social

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Now that official confirmation has come through, I’m pleased to share that I passed my PhD viva without corrections last month. Many thanks to the examiners (Prof Neil Walker and Prof Mike Gordon) for a fruitful discussion and to my supervisors, friends and family!

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Stephen Tierney: Towards a Principle of Positive Engagement?: The House of Lords Constitution Committee reports on The Governance of the Union ukconstitutionallaw.org?p=26050

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Turns out that according to Research Gate, writing about devolution and referendums makes you an expert in Fruit Science too!

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My article on a statistical analysis of devolved JR in Judicial Review has been published. Available here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ming-Sung Kuo: The Constituent Power’s Two Faces ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/09/16/m...

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It’s great to see experimentation in the UK when it comes to deliberative democracy and consultation, but I don’t think this is quite it. Not enough public awareness of process, no clear linkage with Parliament and possibly too small to garner public legitimacy. www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

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‘We can safely forget the Silk Road, but we cannot forget India or the Indians.’ Ferdinand Mount reviews William Dalrymple’s 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘰𝘢𝘥: 𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘈𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Legislative intent is empirically unsupported. Laws are drafted at the direction of the government & amended at the manoeuvring of the government. Amendments from MPs/peers with 0 government backing make it to a Bill once in a blue moon. You might as well talk about the monarch's intent.

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Our first event of the new academic year is one week today! We'll be discussing 'Dworkin on Disagreement' by our very own Cormac Mac Amhlaigh on Thursday 5th September at 2-4pm. This is a pre-read WiP session - join our mailing list to receive the paper here: r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/2MQP-4UI/s...

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Very interesting discussion on the prospects for deliberative democracy in the UK - as well as some scepticism about its reach that should prompt further thought. Points towards a need to look at democratic reform in the round as well as considering specifics. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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I’ve recently been seeking to explain why the rules that the political parties now have for choosing party leaders by vote of members operate inconsistently with constitutional principle as well as being contrary to the public interest, at least when prime ministers are replaced mid term. Why?

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