Delighted to announce a hybrid event to launchThe Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: ed Richard Bellamy and Jeff King UCL 13 Oct 2025, 18:05 – 19:30, followed by a wine reception. Event details and how to book an on line or in person place – are here www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

I have a new paper out online in @crispp.bsky.social: I argue that a focus on domination can help us better understand a renewed politics of working time - a reduction in work, the right to disconnect, and challenging employer authority over free time. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I discuss its themes - in some ways part of a new book project - with Alan Renwick at: uncoveringpolitics.com/episodes/sho...

New article now out and on open access - “Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation” is now published in Volume 27, Issue 3 of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations and is available at doi.org/10.1177/1369...

Have read some of these papers and they were excellent @rbellamy.bsky.social

CRISPP 28.5 is now on line. A special Issue on Democratic Ethics and Voting edited by Annabelle Lever & Attila Mráz – many articles open access – available at: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

Pleased that my exchange on Paul Tucker's stimulating Global Discord in now available OA on @crispp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... and reply: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Even the Guardian in my view fails to underline how worrying this is …. The BBC treats such news as if we should be rejoicing and heading for the beach. No wonder climate change isn't being taken seriously. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The latest issue of CRISPP is now online: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c... - Muldoon on digital socialism,Thompson and Modood on religious recognition, Goodin on excuses, Althorpe on Meaningful work, Eskelinen on global justice, Perez on Data based radicalism and more ....

Engaging with the neon-machiavellian justification of lying and the Neo-Platonic notion of the 'noble' lie to argue for the need for political truthfulness

Great to see this symposium on my & Anne Barnhill's and Josh Milburn's recent monographs on food justice being published in @crispp.bsky.social! Many thanks to the guest editor, Tom Bailey, and to all the commentators!

I'm thrilled to share that @crispp.bsky.social has started to publish a nine-article symposium on my Food, Justice, and Animals and @matteobonotti.bsky.social and Anne Barnhill's Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy. First up: This is Tom Bailey's introduction to the symposium. (1/7)

Labour has to change tack and stop aping Reform on immigration and public spending before it is too late. Not only is it morally wrong, but also the strategy of growing the economy will also fail to materialise given Trump light policies have major economic costs that undermine any such recovery.

On why aping Reform is not only bad politics but also bad economics

In a week when Australia followed Canada in giving the neo-Trumpist parties an electoral drubbing, it was disappointing to say the least to see the Trump adjacent Reform do so well in the recent local elections and to win the Runcorn by-election.

Great blog on free speech and social media www.medialaws.eu/the-evolutio...

Great post graduate teaching opportunity at UCL

New from Arash Abizadeh, in a symposium on the work of Joseph Carens (RGCS Lecture Feb 24) in CRISPP (ed. by Richard Bellamy, RGCS Lecture Nov 24). @abizadeh.bsky.social @rbellamy.bsky.social "The burdens of jurisdiction and the alleged right to exclude unwanted migrants" doi.org/10.1080/1369...

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 28, No 3 (Special Issue) Relational Equality and Intergenerational Justice, edited by Devon Cass and Andre Santos Campos is now available on line – the Introduction on open access. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

Finally available on line (and in hard copy from next month) Essential reading - about a world we are in danger of losing - for the times we live in ... www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

New chapter on 'Can the Rule of Law Meet the Hobbes Challenge? Democracy and the Rule of Law' link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 28, No 1 (2025) is now on line: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/2... The issue contains seven articles and a book symposium on Tae-Yeoun Keum, Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought, Harvard University Press, 2020

The winner of the 2024 CRISPP Essay Prize, for the best essay in a normal issue published in Vol 26 (2023), goes to Edmund Tweedy Flanigan, 'From self-defense to violent protest' CRISPP, 26(7) (2023), 1094-1118 www.tandfonline.com/journals/fcr...

Special Issue on Justice for Denizens, edited by Johan Olsthoorn is now on line, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: (2025) Vol 28, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

Great to have had Jacob Levy give the CRISPP BIAPT lecture once again

Excellent to have Jacob Levy giving the CRISPP lecture at this year’s BIAPT conference. Thanks to Matt Matravers our book review editor for chairing.

Great to have Jacob Levy give the CRISPP lecture once again at the annual BIAPT conference in York - thanks to Matt Matravers or book review editor for chairing

Wonderful to have Ella K Whiteley give the last of this term’s UCL Legal and Political Theory talks.

Great to have former MA LPT student Bruno Leipold return to talk to current students on his novel idea of randomly selected Constituency Juries to hold elected representatives accountable. Great paper and discussion.

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 7 (2024) is now on line. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c... Table of Contents The elitist defence of democracy against populists using education and money Tore Vincents Olsen Pages: 1011-1031 /continues

Such a great time in Montreal, as always. Really enjoyed giving this talk there and pondering the challenging questions from students and faculty afterwards. youtu.be/OiztX7xLI_Y?...

New piece on the regulatory and constitutional challenges posed by big data - Data Ethics: Normative Principles and Their Regulatory Challenges academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Is truthfulness integral to democratic representation in a pluralist society? Do both technocrats and populists lack such truthfulness and thereby undermine democracy? Richard Bellamy and Sandra Kroger explore these issues in their latest article.

Is truthfulness integral to democratic representation in a pluralist society? Do both technocrats and populists lack such truthfulness and thereby undermine democracy? Richard Bellamy and Sandra Kröger explore these issues in their latest article.

Great to have Rebecca Buxton officially kick off the Legal and Political Theory seminar today (with apologies to Adina Preda for forgetting to photograph her unofficial kick off last week). Next up Ulas Ince on 29 October

New CRISPP SI (27.6) - Political Philosophy of Hope; Guest editor: Jakob Huber. Contributors include Jakob Huber, Lea Ypi, Katharina Bauer, Claudia Blöser, Dana Howard,Titus Stahl and Loren Goldman. Most articles open access. www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

Pleased to have been part of this critical exchange on Confucian democratic constitutionalism Sungmoon Kim, Confucian Constitutionalism. Dignity, Rights, and Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). Open access- link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Should outsiders have a say in remaking political membership boundaries? Yes! Here is my longer answer in a new article in @crispp.bsky.social on citizenship and voting rights, belonging and boundary-making: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... (open access)

Great to have this from Chris Armstrong inaugurating a new series of Research Agenda pieces in which theorists write an accessible piece on a topic that should be engaging political theorists. Contact me if you have ideas. All go through the referee process www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The former editors of Philosophy and Public Affairs are thrilled to announced the name of our new journal. 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦 & 𝘌𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘭: 𝘈 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘌𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴 will launch and begin accepting submissions in September. Send us your work! dailynous.com/2024/08/13/j... #philsky #polisky #PolTheory

The new issue of CRISPP is now on line at tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c... Articles include: AI and the future of work; colonial genealogies of immigration controls; and more

The new issue of CRISPP is now on line at tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c... Articles include: AI and the future of work; colonial genealogies of immigration controls; and more

To celebrate Kant's 300th anniversary, check out some of the Kantian articles in CRISPP, including Jakob Huber, Julio Montero , Chiara Cordelli, Alon Harel and Anna Stilz www.tandfonline.com/action/doSea....

An insider account of how behind the scenes at the G7 and G20 summits, civil servants and policy experts engage in rigorous negotiations which lay the groundwork for the high level declarations that shape our global political landscape. @hertiecfr.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social

Looking forward to Professor Andreas Føllesdal tomorrow on How diverse should international courts be? Wednesday, 10.04.2024 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm (CET)  3.65 Hertie School, Friedrichstraße 180 Open to all

Looking forward to the second of the Hertie seminars in Global Ethics with Professor Andreas Føllesdal on How diverse should international courts be? Open to all.

The first of the Hertie Global Ethics seminar series is at 17.00 today with Juri Viehoff on Taxploitation - details here hertie-school.org/en/events/ev... All welcome. @hertiecfr.bsky.social @hertieschool.bsky.social

More details here www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...