University of Bristol Law School, 1 July 2024 We are excited to announce a one-day workshop for PhD […]
Commentary on the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Act (“RA”), which is shortly to receive Royal Assent, […]
Following pressure from the in-coming Blair government, in the late 1990s the three Crown Dependencies enacted legislation modelled […]
SLS Sponsored Collaborative Workshop for PhD Candidates and Early Career Academics in Public Law, Labour Law, Migration & […]
The Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill was introduced into Parliament before Christmas, starting in the House of Lords, to […]
The Work and Pensions Committee is conducting an inquiry on a highly important matter: how vulnerable welfare claimants […]
As it becomes clear the Labour Party is on course to win the next general election, greater attention […]
Constitutionalism Beyond the State and the Role of Domestic Constitutional Courts 30-31 May 2024, WZB Berlin Social Science […]
The Editorial Committee of Public Law invites Guest Editors to submit proposals for a themed set of ‘Analysis’ papers to […]
How should the Centre of government (i.e., No 10 and the Cabinet Office) organise itself so that it […]
The myriad problems with the Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill, as well as the policy that the Bill is […]
In November 2023, the Supreme Court of the UK dealt a critical blow to the government’s proposal to […]
Joanna Cherry KC MP has suggested (here and in parliament), somewhat indirectly, that the nobile officium of the […]
This is a call for women to be involved in the creation of a Women in UK Public Law Group, which will be an inclusive and intersectional network to facilitate mutual […]
On the fourth of February, Nationalists and Unionists agreed to form a new government in Northern Ireland. For […]
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other […]
It is hard to think of a concept with a more contested definition in legal and political circles […]
In a recent comment on the Government’s Rwanda Bill and on speculations about an unprecedented strike down by […]
***** Constitutional Reform in the UK: A Conference on the Brown Commission Report (Part Two) 1 March 2024 | 09.00 […]
International Society of Public Law British-Irish Chapter CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS: TECHNIQUES OF CONSTITUTIONAL REGULATION London School […]
The upheaval of the UK constitution from 2016 onwards has been associated with a host of individuals, from […]
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other […]
The recently announced plan to increase the minimum income requirement (MIR) to £38,700 led to widespread criticism, with the government […]
Successive UK Governments have promised to regulate less, better or smarter to promote economic growth and competitiveness while […]
Launch Event – University of Bristol Law School’s Centre for European and Public Law, 30th January 2024 The […]
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill will receive its second reading in the House of Lords […]
Parliamentary Academic Fellowships in Constitutional Law and Lobbying and Ethics The UK Parliament has just launched the recruitment […]
Some commentators have claimed that the decision to expedite the process of formally exonerating the sub-postmasters potentially runs afoul of […]
Last year’s Supreme Court decision in R (AAA) v Home Secretary – which found the British government’s Rwanda […]
Münster Conference on Future-Proofing in Public Law – Call for Abstracts The Faculty of Law at the University […]
This is a reminder that the UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held in person at 1.30pm on the 10th of […]
Michael Foran has eloquently defended on this blog the decision by Lady Haldane in Re Scottish Minister’s Petition 2023 CSOH 89 which […]
With the year drawing to a close, time is running out in which to join the UK Constitutional […]
10th January 2024 The UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held in person at 1.30pm on the 10th of January 2024 […]
University of Portsmouth, 26-28 March 2024 STREAM: CONSTITUTIONALISM IN DEVELOPING DEMOCRACIES CALL FOR PAPERS Stable constitutionalism is generally […]
At the beginning of the year, this blog covered the report from the House of Lords Constitution Committee […]
Wednesday 10 April 2024, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool More than 25 years after the conclusion of […]
The UKCLA blog will be taking a break over the Christmas period – the blog will be closed […]
At the outset of their judgment for the Supreme Court in R (Miller) v Prime Minister [2019] UKSC 41, [2020] […]
This week, the Outer House of the Court of Session delivered judgment in Re Scottish Minister’s Petition 2023 […]
Virtual Symposium on “Constitutional Essentials” by Frank Michelman, Friday 15th December 2023, 1.30pm The Constitutional and Administrative Justice […]
The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill was introduced into Parliament on 7 December 2023. According to its long title, […]
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other posts […]
The Supreme Court’s recent judgment in R (on the application of Imam) (Respondent) v London Borough of Croydon (Appellant) […]
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other posts […]
Lecture by Dr Camila Vergara, Tuesday 5th December 2023, 4:30pm School of Law and Social Justice Events Space, […]
When we think of the most important ouster clauses in the law of judicial review, we might think […]
This post argues that the terminology of “reserve powers” and “personal prerogatives” are inaccurate and misleading descriptions of […]
Last week the Supreme Court (in R (AAA) v Home Secretary) found the UK government’s policy to send […]