Category: Events

Wednesday 10 April 2024, Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool More than 25 years after the conclusion of the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, the continued instability of devolved government in Northern Ireland has seen increased calls for reform of the institutions created by the 1998 Agreement. Most recently, a November 2023 report by the House…

Virtual Symposium on “Constitutional Essentials” by Frank Michelman, Friday 15th December 2023, 1.30pm The Constitutional and Administrative Justice Initiative at the University of Essex is kindly supporting a Virtual Symposium on Professor Frank Michelman’s latest book, “Constitutional Essentials: On the Constitutional Theory of Political Liberalism” (OUP 2022), on 15 December at 13.30 UK time (08.30 EST)…

Lecture by Dr Camila Vergara, Tuesday 5th December 2023, 4:30pm School of Law and Social Justice Events Space, University of Liverpool and online An inaugural lecture to mark the launch of the new Liverpool Public Law Unit will be given by Dr Camila Vergara on Tuesday 5th December 2023 on the topic of “Anti-Oligarchic Constitutionalism”.…

Wednesday 22nd November 2023 at 5pm, University of Manchester Kanaris Lecture Theatre, Manchester Museum Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL Join us to celebrate the launch of Constitutional Culture, Independence, and Rights: Insights from Quebec, Scotland, and Catalonia (Toronto University Press, 2023) with the authors Professor Javier García Oliva (University of Manchester) and Rev’d Dr Helen Hall…

University of Liverpool – 23 January 2024 The University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice, in conjunction with the Liverpool Public Law Unit, will host a one-day symposium on unwritten constitutionalism which will bring together leading scholars on the subject from the UK and abroad. This call for papers is aimed specifically at…

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 10 – 11.15 am Via Zoom The British-Irish Chapter of the International Society of Public Law is delighted to host a panel discussion on Diverse Voices in Public Law (Bristol University Press, 2023).  This important new book explores the main topics in UK public law from a range of underexplored perspectives…

UKCLA Conference Monday 11th September – Tuesday 12th September 2023 Venue: Events Space, School of Law and Social Justice Building, University of Liverpool, Chatham Street, L69 7ZR The UKCLA and the Liverpool Public Law Unit conference ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’ will explore the nature and effectiveness of the UK’s framework of constitutional accountability.  In…

Law of the European Convention on Human Rights – Launch Event The University of Nottingham’s Human Rights Law Centre (HRLC) is hosting a launch event for the 5th edition of ‘Law of the European Convention on Human Rights‘, co-authored by HRLC founder and former Director, Professor David Harris. This hybrid event will take place on Wednesday 14 June 2023 from 14:00…

The Italian Cultural Institute, the Devolution Club and the UK Constitutional Law Association invite you to the 16th Italian-British Constitutional Conversation: ‘UK Constitutional Reform Proposals in Comparative Perspective’ Monday, 5th June 2023, 4:30pm Italian Cultural Institute 39 Belgrave Square, London SW1X 8NX  Foreword: Alessandro Torre (Bari Aldo Moro, Devolution Club) Chair: Mara Malagodi (Warwick) Speakers: Merris Amos (Queen…

Call for Papers UKCLA Conference 2023 Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability University of Liverpool – 11th & 12th September 2023 The nature and effectiveness of the UK’s framework of constitutional accountability has been at the centre of many recent legal and political controversies. We might see this, among other examples, in controversies concerning ministerial conduct…