AG of Northern Ireland's Reference (on DOLS) will be heard on 20 October 2025; the case will be heard by a panel of seven members (Reed, Hodge, Lloyd Jones, Sales, Stephens, Rose, Simler) presumably because the Court will be invited to overrule Cheshire West: supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-2...

Wrote a piece - with Matt Nicholson - on whether dualism provides an effective guide to, or description of, the UK's relationship with international laws (tl;dr summary: not really). It will be coming out in the CLJ in due course, but you can read it *now* here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

Here, Nick and I take a wider lens on devolution: its history, underlying policies & principles to expand on our point in part 1 (share.google/reJPFVN4Uqp3...). The UKSC's concept of parliamentary power vis-à-vis devolved lawmaking is problematic, impractical & should be abandoned asap.

The first challenge under the NI Climate Change Act was a watershed moment in how NI deals with climate change. Here (part 1/2), @nearlydoctornick.bsky.social and I explore another side to the Act: one drawn from some problematic decisions of the UKSC with debilitating consequences for devolution.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

On 2 June, the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk will collaborate with scholars incl our members @ucllaws.bsky.social, @durham-university.bsky.social & @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social on a workshop on the role of politicians & parliamentary personnel in sustaining the unwritten dimension of constitutionalism

Couldn't have decided to partner with better people for the first big output of my Parliamentary Academic Fellowship, especially given that one of its objectives is to strengthen the dialogue between parliamentarians, academics, and other stakeholders. With @bricksilk.bsky.social opening!

The April 2025 issue of Public Law is now avail. on Westlaw feat. a themed analysis section - Race and Public Law - compiled by @vidyakumar.bsky.social. Papers are by Vidya, on "Race and the UK Constitution"; Shreya Atrey "A Common Law principle of racial equality?"; Tom Frost ...

In the PUBLIC LAW volume we have contributions from Ed Bates, Joanna Bell, Nicole Busby, Kenny Chng, Paul Craig, Anurag Deb, Brice Dickson, Hasan Dindjer, Mark Elliott, Eleni Frantziou, Tom Frost, Ariella Gordon, Daniella Lock, Kacper Majewski, Conall Mallory, Lee Marsons, Stevie Martin... [1/2]

This looks like it will be an excellent conference — 25 years of the Human Rights Act.

Latest briefing from Transport for Quality of Life looks at how to tackle the issue of oversized cars & benefits this would bring. “Reversing the trend towards heavier, longer, wider and higher cars… would make our streets healthier, safer and more people-friendly.“

“I have never really been the owner of these forests, nor could I be.” The wonderfully inspiring story of a Columbian ex-rancher, who turned from destroyer of forests to their protector and restorer, establishing a 7,500-acre nature reserve teeming with life. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“I am disappointed to see a deposit return scheme that does not include glass. Implementing a deposit return scheme that includes glass is really not unprecedented; it is absolutely possible.” @carladenyer.bsky.social resource.co/article/depo...

Dorky technicalities are sometimes fundamental. The UK gov has announced reviews of ‘Common Frameworks’ (to be done by Easter) and the UK Internal Mkt Act (by summer). There is now a chance to change super complicated and inefficient arrangements that define how the UK is governed after Brexit. 1

This report is a great early Christmas present, full of lots of very nerdy & detailed discussions of UKG-devolved frictions in the post-Brexit regulatory space. Also some recommendations as to how we think these can improve.

Bravo Cardiff. Absolutely the right thing to do. Local parking reforms have a big role to play in reducing the number of large cars on our roads with all the benefits this brings - for safety, climate, air quality, space in our crowded public realm and, as mentioned here, road maintenance

📅 Just over a week to go! Want to shape social policy and reduce poverty in the UK? Keen to contribute to agenda-driving analysis and inquiry? We’re recruiting two Analysts to join our analysis team! Applications close on 8 December. Apply now: bit.ly/48WuGKE

🗣️📢 Criminal law theorists! Historians of political thought! Normative people! Hegelians and not-so-much-Hegelians! Here's a call for abstracts for a cute conference on Hegel's concept of wrong, to be held in September 2025 in the equally cute city of Freiburg 🌲🌳🌲 #cfa #lawsky #philsky #crimsky

This new paper from the House of Commons Library on the U.K. Constitution will be very interesting (at least for people interested in this sort of thing). commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Great coverage of our campaign to end to greyhound racing. Take action at gamban4greyhounds.com

Feels quite profound to live through the global extinction of a bird in your own region. Last one was the Great Auk about 170 years ago. I remember tourists travelling to see Slender-billed Curlews a few hours flight from London; trip reports & photos in the magazines. www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: "Policy-oriented Political Philosophy - New Opportunities and Methodological Challenges" 24-25 April 2025 Organised by me, Lisa Herzog @jonathanfloyd.bsky.social Dan Halliday Abstracts by 20/12, ECR and PhD encouraged (places reserved) www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/call-...

OK, time for exponential road tax. The more monstrous your car, the more you pay. Perhaps huge SUVs should pay 10 times the road tax of a standard vehicle. A new form of ‘sin’ tax.

Thomas Horsley, Coree Brown Swan, Nicola McEwen and Lisa Claire Whitten: Westminster Rules: The United Kingdom Internal Market Act and Devolution ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/10/17/t...

AG Lord Hermer’s Bingham lecture on the rule of law, which I was glad to attend. Much to welcome here - on adherence to the ECHR, upholding international law, the government’s approach to legal risk, improving parliamentary scrutiny of legislation, a “rule of law culture” www.gov.uk/government/s...

These vehicles are a risk to everyone, especially children. They are too large, lethally designed and have a huge environmental impact. Regulations in UK and EU have to urgently be updated to stop more of these being driven on our roads.

In this (Open Access) issue of the NI Legal Quarterly, we have a paper on how the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights interacts with the Windsor Framework and conditions the legal effect of domestic law. There's also (among other papers) an exploration of the WF in an environmental context.

Resetting relations with devolved governments means revisiting Internal Market Act. Read our new report www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Legal challenge to UK/Australia trade deal is pending - UK govt is appealing the decision to cap the legal costs of the challengers though www.politico.eu/article/uk-m...

Parliamentary Sovereignty is a million legal cases and then someone gets elected and makes a decision www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm in the latest issue of the Edinburgh Law Review, with a short overview on Article 2 of the Windsor Framework and why it's emerged as the most powerful guarantee against any post-Brexit rollback of rights in NI + why GB should also be aware of it. Huge thanks to Chris McCorkindale for the chance

Great policy - these vehicles cause a lot of negative externalities

Finally, the Biden administration is taking a stand against car bloat. NHTSA has proposed banning SUV/pickup hood designs that are especially likely to cause head injuries. In Fast Company, I explained why this could be a watershed moment. 🧵 www.fastcompany.com/91195993/car...

No better illustration of the existential crisis in Higher Ed than the gap between all the love and care and sweat that goes into academic articles and their use to... train an AI. Completely unsustainable gulf between the workforce and the endpoint of it all. www.thebookseller.com/news/sage-co...

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

I fear this part of the Darzi report already risks getting lost - but it is absolutely key. If we want to avoid another lost decade for the NHS, we have to invest in the wider public sector and all the other things that make up the wider determinants of health.

Published at long last, this report covers research on the interaction between the EU Fundamental Rights Charter and the Windsor Framework, which regulates the post-Brexit relations between NI and the EU. Huge thanks to @tobiaslock.bsky.social and Eleni Frantziou for being superb to work with!

With the NIHRC for the launch of a major new report on the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights by @tobiaslock.bsky.social, @anuragdeb.bsky.social and Eleni Frantziou. The hard work of exploring the limits of rights law in NI post Brexit continues!

Report on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights Post-Brexit by @anuragdeb.bsky.social Eleni Frantziou & @tobiaslock.bsky.social available from the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission Great report, really gets into the nitty gritty detail #Brexit #NorthernIreland nihrc.org/news/detail/...

So pleased by this, Erin is fantastic. www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/news/20...

A couple of preliminary thoughts. 🧵 1. This is in principle a welcome level of symmetry. The REUL Act was deregulatory, allowing assimilated law divergence from the EU. This Bill allows the opposite.

No Scottish Human Rights Bill from the Programme for Government, though the SG says it remains committed to it. A lot of understandable disappointment about this, given that Bill development appeared to be well advanced. However, there are difficult legislative competence challenges around this Bill

This is now finally official and I can't wait to begin working with colleagues in POST and other offices of Parliament. Really grateful to the School of Law and the University of Leeds for making this happen! essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/art...

The Economist has published a deeply-researched story about car bloat -- and it's very, very damning. "For every life that the heaviest 1% of SUVs and trucks save, there are more than a dozen lives lost in other vehicles." Well worth your time: www.economist.com/interactive/...

Are you interested in joining our brilliant research and learning team at ⁦‪@instituteforgov‬⁩? We’re looking for people who have been working in and around government to bring their experience and expertise to our work, details 👇 www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/about-us/car...

Here at @instituteforgov.bsky.social we hold a database of ministerial appointments going back to 1979 I’m very excited to say we’ll shortly be turning it into a public resource - we think it'll be of lots of use to others Launching 5 September: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/ifg-mi...

We're delighted to announce that Professor Jan Klabbers has been elected to the Whewell Professorship of International Law with effect from 1 October 2025. www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/news/2...

“I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold” www.techradar.com/computing/i-... > For everyone else, however, all I saw was the end of the last few glaciers on Earth and the mass displacement of people that will result from the lack of drinking water Not wrong

Chris McCorkindale: UK Delegated Law-Making Powers in Devolved Areas: The Accountability Gap ukconstitutionallaw.org/2023/12/07/c...

My assessment of the new Rwanda treaty and bill