The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

Whoever wrote this headline deserved the rest of the day off

Academise a book: That's not my Justice or Rationality

You can replace the word "sovereignty" with "domination" quite easily in this article

Lovely use of the phrase "constitutional Tetris" in explaining why lack of effective devolved (and local?) democracy in England enables Farage to stir up xenophobia

Roger Masterman and Matthew Nicholson, "The Dissolution of Dualism" (Cambridge Law Journal, Ahead of Print) Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Whenever I’m asked to explain phenomenology

Must-see Magna Carta event at Durham Cathedral on 15th October : Henry Jones @durham-university.bsky.social, @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & @benedictdouglas.bsky.social on Magna Carta's contemporary relevance, chaired by @thombrooks.bsky.social. Tickets: durhamcathedral.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Another opportunity to join Durham Law School as a three-year career development fellow in public law. A great Law School and a vibrant public law community with opportunities to teach in both core and optional modules, and excellent support for research. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX378/c...

Jeanette Winterson beautifully foreseeing the problem with AI art and in student essays in 1995

The Assisted Dying Act will only create a general increase in self-determination and liberty if the wider inequalities of our society are addressed

Thanks to @publiclaw.bsky.social for publishing my article on decision making under the Prevent and Channel duties. So long in the writing that the Prevent Duty guidance and definition of extremism were updated and a review of Prevent was published, which didn't slow things down further at all.

Our duty dominated society is not ready for the legalisation of assisted suicide.

Reskeeting for my UG Intro to Law class who had to do a problem question on whether Tintin could claim as a secondary victim if he suffered psychiatric injury if he saw Snowy injured in an accident.

The Common Market Law Review has just published my new article: "Repositioning Free Movement of Services: A Substantive Perspective on the Structure and Dynamics of the Internal Market" kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic... @delidurham.bsky.social

Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to [email protected] by 7 July.

It’s good to see the Committee explicitly recognise the existence or level of a Minimum Income Requirement is an ethical decision, as well as a political one. Preventing people from living with their family based on how much they earn is unethical, this should guide the political debate & decision

Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules

Looking forward to reading this and applying it to animal rights! @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social GEWIRTH REASERCH CLAXON 🚨🐑🚨

I'm giving a magic little paper tomorrow at 3pm: "NO JUSTICE, JUST US: Death & Love in Terry Pratchett's Discworld" Drop me a message me if you'd like a link

Rereading one of my favourite articles, in which Sir John Laws explains parliamentary sovereignty is like a cat.

Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years.

The OJLS is red typos are few law reform needed open access for you

Parliament is a ‘they’. But it is also an ‘it’. Trying to expand my audience to public lawyers, parliamentary nerds and … metaphysicians

Could it happen here? Could a Trump tribute act smash codes, conventions and laws in the UK? All too easily, I suspect. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

The United Kingdom constitution – a mapping exercise https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9384/

Wonderful to see the amazing Dr Kara Woodbury-Smith on bsky @kwhyphens.bsky.social

My book is out today! 🌱 it’s about ontologies of gestation, and the classification, regulation and implications of technologies enabling gestation 🌱 the work was supported by research fellowships at @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social & E&L Safra Center & The Future of Human Reproduction project

The Gavle Goat is on bsky, it’s an advent calendar with the mild peril of sudden spontaneous combustion

The UK’s culture means some people are likely to choose assisted dying because they feel they have a "duty to die". The safeguards in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill do not address this. In this post I suggest constitutional change is a way to reduce the danger

Very true, which is why Durham staff and students created a guide to the UK Constitution with pictures! @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

"Constitutional change, property, dissent, inequality and revolution are not the B-plot of the #Barbie film". New article by me, @colinmurray.bsky.social and @aoifemod.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Wearing pink for publication day! New out from @ruthhoughton.bsky.social, @aoifemod.bsky.social and me, our meditation on gender, power relations and constitutional change in #Barbie. Just because it's fun, this doesn't mean it's not also serious... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Ben Yong: The quiet demise of constitutional boilerplate: or How special advisers can get their groove back ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/11/13/b...

Every time someone uses the word "business" to describe what a university does an idea dies.

UK Constitution Zines off to Glasgow and Cornwall!

My piece in the NILQ on the last #Trump term & tyrannical intent. Looking back the volume of things that happened is almost incredible - which is part of the issue - tyrannophobia - or the foolish fear of #tyranny #authoritarianism is nonsense - it should be feared! nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...

This one's special to me. When I rocked up to Cambridge as a first-gen student from Barnsley back in '06 I never thought I'd end up publishing in the Cambridge Law Journal. But here I am - my musings on inventorship for AI in the UKSC Thaler decision: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"Hello, is that Colin Archer? I'm an author of sailing-based adventure stories and I'd like to order a yacht." "Certainly. What sort of thing will you be using it for?" "Err, mostly leisure. Family cruises, weekends away. The armed liberation of Ireland."

Call for Papers 🔊 PGR/ECR WORKSHOP 30 April 2025 at the LSE in London

look at this absolute unit

So excited to take the @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social to its first zine fair in Leeds today!

Battle of the giants...

Yay! Edited with @patrickcobrien.bsky.social; contributors incl Lord Sales, @aileenmcharg.bsky.social, Caroline Morris, @conormccormick.bsky.social, @chrismccork.bsky.social, Conor Gearty, Hélène Tyrell, Conall Mallory, Mara Malagodi, Meghan Campbell, Paul Daly, @efieldingd.bsky.social, Sionaidh DG

Glorious office post from @bjd.bsky.social @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social today - a brilliant zine version of the UK Constitution. If all legal documents could have the main parts written down with pictures, I'd be grateful.

First set of zines @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social being released into the wild!