Our regular morning visit

Why do ICJ judgments alternate 1 page French 1 page English?! it is an insane way to present any information. The procedure goblin will know... @drnajimagi.bsky.social

In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]

Seeing a performer successfully hype the crowd with "When I say constitutional, you say crisis!" makes me wonder if we're doing public law conferences all wrong

Happy publication day! Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Public-Law-a... Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Private-Law-...

Hearing a lot of Russell group unis are taking on staggering numbers of Home UG students to offset weaker international recruitment. This has been a recent trend, but it seems to be out of control this recruitment cycle. Downstream impact on newer unis will be catastrophic @gsoh31.bsky.social

This is an excellent piece well worth your time

Thanks to this excellent blog, I've recently learned what a super-injunction is. From a foreign public lawyer's perspective it's bonkers. Perhaps Professor Dicey will stop defaming French administrative law now.

Great to see the university's spam filter identify this email from the university's own printing service informing me something I urgently needed was ready as spam👏

The absolute cherry on top is the working class hero defending proletarian AI in this piece works at Microsoft and lectures at Cambridge lol. That said, undercooked fever dreams making their way into academic journals is one of the oldest traditions in Academia, so in many ways this fits right in.

Explainer on how the UK could leave the ECHR - and what it would mean. ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/l...

Do a PhD in a field you are passionate about and you’ll never work a day in your life, because there are no jobs.

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

Writing and researching Open Access International Human Rights Law has made me realise just how much academic work is paywalled by publishers even stuff that is decades old.

consoc.org.uk/the-payroll-... The UK government's payroll vote has never been higher. In this blog post I explore why that might be and why it is a problem

As expected, a minimalist approach to UKIMA reform - no statutory change, but improved processes for agreeing exclusions, and a commitment to the Common Frameworks as a mechanism for co-operation.

New post: The developing domestic debate about the ECHR: Navigating two extremes publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/09/t...

Three things are inevitable in life - death, taxes and that the university's results website will crash on results day.

Nothing says force projection like, "hold up a minute I need a jump start"

A choice quote taken from Mr Justice Lavender in a recent dog destruction appeal

Prof Meg Russell's (@conunitucl.bsky.social) 2024 Public Law lecture - "Should we be worried about the decline of parliamentary scrutiny?" - is available open access here: www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/content/dam/...

I don't think I'll ever be ready random spam email, show me the way

AR v United Kingdom (1 July 2025): hudoc.echr.coe.int?i=001-243878 The Strasbourg Court, disagreeing with the UK Supreme Court (see [2018] UKSC 47), finds a breach of Article 8 ECHR re police disclosures - not "in accordance with the law".

This raises two interesting questions for legal ontology buffs: what is a bill? and more crucially: *where* is it?

This. It is part of a really toxic environment in UK politics whereby all political acts are framed in zero sum terms. Everything is seen as a win or a loss, which drives a huge amount of government intransigence

The limits of Art 2 Windsor Framework's non-diminution guarantee for post-Brexit NI have yet to be fully tested. An impressive expert report for the NIHRC has just produced a powerful case for it covering a broad range of EU protections as securing environmental rights: nihrc.org/assets/uploa...

Huge congratulations to Khaleed Alsufyyan who passed his viva yesterday. His thesis "The Maritime Counterterrorism Governance Mechanisms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". Supervised by Clive Walker and I. Examined by @alangreene.bsky.social and Alex Batesmith

James Kelly and I have a new article out in EHRLR (2025, 3, 279-305): ‘Legislating with rights in Northern Ireland - why Stormont’s exceptionalism is Stormont’s paradox’. Perfect holiday reading and fits right into your hand luggage.

ECHR website appears to be down, weird. (gotta live up to my handle on here)

Woke up at 425 vicariously anxious for my PhD student who has his viva today 😬

This needs to be acknowledged over and over + as I pointed out elsewhere, HRA was also adopted after ECHR was being applied to conflicts and extra-territorially brill.com/view/journal...

Shonky WMD evidence used as a pretext for war - check Mixed messaging about regime change - check UK supporting USA war effort - check Asking for release of AG's legal advice on legality of war - check

The July 2025 issue of Public Law is now available via westlaw. Featuring Analysis from Tasneem Ghazi (Constitutional Constraints on Delegated powers in the UK and Ireland); Mary Dobbs and @colinmurray.bsky.social (on the Rights Community Action case) and Trevor Wan (on proportionality ...

Really important ECtHR decision this morning declaring the Dalton case inadmissible. This is a really important case on human rights and the legacy of the NI conflict: hudoc.echr.coe.int#{%22itemid%2...

Maybe I'm not in the right frame of mind for writing the open textbook today...

Fascinating to see the "we don't need written rights protections, the protections are already there in the common law" argument made by Alexander Hamilton... in 1788. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

The tone of discussions about the ECHR has worrying echoes of Brexit - the mis/disinformation, the lack of objectivity, the anti-intellectualism, the unwillingness to engage with other European states to change, the all or nothing mentality.

Some kind words from one of the titans of UK constitutional law. This article is forthcoming in public law in a few months. Always good for a sobering conclusion 😂

I thought the UK had reached peak stupid during Brexit, but it turns out it was just base camp

I'm not sure why it is necessary to respond to this. You say the arguments are "not solid", the spec. case apparently involved a person misleading a court about their circumstances. Had he not done so, he would have been unlikely to avail of the ECHR's protection.

You would swear states have done nothing to counteract this. like states haven't sought diplomatic assurances + memoranda of understanding to facilitate deportation and extradition where the risk of such treatment exists. Like the principle of aut dedere aut judicare does not exist

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www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... The most controversial journalism the guardian has published in years. A frankly deranged take on her body of work. The highway rat top 3?! And where is Charlie cook's favourite book? Monkey puzzle?

1/2 Hmmmm. “Cases in which, for example, judges have said that they might disapply an act of parliament which they regarded as contrary to the rule of law, or in which they have interpreted ouster clauses so narrowly as to render them ineffective, have left a legacy,”

Which Article 2 legacy inquest authorities have survived Dalton? administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2025/06/12/w...

Today I'm researching and writing about the backlog of reports pending consideration by the UN treaty bodies, for our open source textbook on human rights law. After seeing some positive recent reductions, it has recently seen a significant increase again.