A blog on why myself @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen decided to put together this Handbook on Global Governance & asking 'Why Bother' elgar.blog/2025/12/05/w...

A Handbook on Global Governance, why bother? This blog sets out the impetus behind the Research Handbook on Global Governance edited by @aoifemod.bsky.social, Cher Weixia Chen and me elgar.blog/2025/12/05/w...

New Book Research Handbook on Global Governance www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/12/2...

Blog on @globalpolicy.bsky.social about the Research Handbook on Global Governance @elgarpublishing.bsky.social edited by @aoifemod.bsky.social, Cher Weixia Chen and me www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/12/2...

Earlier this month, out star ConGover @ruthhoughton.bsky.social participated in the Durham Cathedral Institute Debate on Magna Carta and its influence today. You can watch the debate here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS2X...

Check out our ConGover Tanya Krupiy’s recent podcast interview: Title: Do we need new AI laws? podcasts.ncl.ac.uk/fromnewcastl... Hosted by Callum Borkowski

Our ConGov stars💫 Adam Rowe and @ruthhoughton.bsky.social just published a fascinating article:Rowe, Adam and Houghton, Ruth. "Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State" Pólemos, vol. 19, no. 2, 2025, pp. 281-307. doi.org/10.1515/pol-...

Check out our amazing ConGover @sylviademars.me’s new co-authored article: Elizabeth Sorensen, Sylvia de Mars and David McArdle, ‘Students, Student-Athletes, and the Title IX Religious Exemption’ (2025) 35 Journal of Legal Aspects of Sports 102-165 doi.org/10.18060/28825

@benfarrand.bsky.social(3/3):Farrand B. Cybercrime in the TCA:Reduced Cooperation in an Environment of Regulatory Divergence?.In:Davies,G;Carrapico,H,ed.UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit: Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Oxford Dublin:Hart Publishing,2025, pp.287-298

@benfarrand.bsky.social (2/3)Combating the Dissemination of Counterfeit Goods Post-Brexit:Intellectual Property,Information Sharing and Shared Insecurity.In:Davies,G;Carrapico,H,ed. UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit:Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.,pp.231-242:

Check the latest work of our ConGover @benfarrand.bsky.social: (1/3) Carrapico H, Farrand B. EU Data Sovereignty: An Autonomy–Interdependence Governance Gap?. Politics & Governance 2025, 13, 10331 (available Open Access here: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

Check Professor's @colinmurray.bsky.social blog post co-authored with @anuragdeb.bsky.social @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social on this ABSURD 😡 decision: Policing Pride: R (on the application of Lindsey Smith) v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805. dflw.ie/policing-pri...

New from @anuragdeb.bsky.social, @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social and me on The Morrigan blog - The Smith judicial review decision into the participation of Northumbria Police in the 2024 Northern Pride is a jaw-dropping mess on expert evidence, standing and irrationality: dflw.ie/policing-pri...

One of our star ConGovers, Tanya Krupiy just published a blog post in the LSE blog. Check it out! Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy, ‘The UK’s Approach to Governing AI Risks Exacerbating Inequalities,’ LSE Inequalities Blog, 15 July 2025, blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities....

Check a fascinating new blog post from our star ConGover @ruthhoughton.bsky.social entitled “What Would the Founding Fathers Say? Digital Ghosts and Constituent Power”. digi-con.org/what-would-t...

Check this incredible new article by our ConGover Sylvia de Mars: Sylvia de Mars, 'How I made academic writing work for me' (2025) 76 (RS) NILQ 78-87 (nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...)

Call for papers! We're hosting a symposium exploring legal methods and methodologies in September and the call for abstracts is now open. We're excited that ‪@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social‬ & Prof Linda Mulcahy will be joining us as keynotes! How to submit and event details in the link

Sean Molloy is also presenting a paper on Childing IR in the context of peacebuilding in the upcoming British International Studies Association (BISA) 50th-anniversary conference- 18 to 20 of June in Belfast.

Sean Molloy, our dear ConGover, has also had this great article recently published (4/5): Molloy, S. (2025), ‘Living Apart Together: Child Participation in the Context of Peace Process Theory and Practice, Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Finally, Sean Molloy also published this interesting blog post too: (3/5) Molloy, S (2025). The Illusion of Inclusion: Child Protection in Peace Agreements, Peace News Network, peacenews.com/the-illusion...

Another recent blog post by Sean Molloy that is well-worth a read (2/5): Molloy, S. (2025) Rewriting the Future: How Peace Agreements Can Break the Cycle of Child Soldiering, Peace News Network, thepeacetoday.com/2025/04/22/r...

Sean Molloy, our fellow ConGover, one of the stars of our School, had a very productive month (1/5) Check his blog posts: Molloy, S. (2025) Living Apart Together: Why Children Belong at the Heart of Peace Processes, PeaceRep, peacerep.org/2025/05/26/l...

2/2 Li Wang’s Honourable Mention for the Richard Macrory Prize 2024 in the Journal of Environmental Law comes from her article 'Environmental Constitutionalism in China: A Constitution without Constitutionalism?' The article emerges from Li's PhD research at Newcastle.

1/2 Li Wang (ConGov member, former PhD student at Newcastle and now lecturer at Northumbria) has been awarded the Honourable Mention for the Richard Macrory Prize 2024 in the Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press)

Dr Tanya Krupiy presented this paper "A Quiet Revolution:How the Assumptions in the Equality Act 2010 can be Revisited to Enable it to Respond to Digital Discrimination" at the Association of Human Rights Institutes and Northern United Kingdom Human Rights Network, University of Edinburgh, 7 May 25

Updates from our ConGovers: Tania Krupiy Podcast hosted by Bernardo Carvalho De Mello, My research on artificial intelligence and human rights plus tips for PhD applicants, open.spotify.com/episode/4fmQ...

Updates from our ConGovers: Tania Krupiy presented the paper "Artificial Intelligence, Agility and Fragility: Rethinking Assumptions in the Equality Act 2010 to Strengthen the Protections from Discrimination" at the Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group,University of Oxford, 6 March 2025.

Updates from our ConGovers: Tania Krupiy presented "Key Themes that Emerged from the Discussion in Focus Groups" at the Unconference, Connected by Data, 20 March 2025.

Updates from our members:Tania Krupiy presented the paper titled "Aligning Legal Concepts to the Way in Which the Operation of Artificial Intelligence Decision-making Processes Brings About Discrimination"at the ConnectsUK:2nd European Researchers in the UK Event,University of Cambridge, 31 March 25

Check @ruthhoughton.bsky.social new fantastic blog post: Houghton R, O'Donoghue A. 'Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto'. Verfassungsblog, 2025. Available at: verfassungsblog.de/reading-proj....