Category: UKCLA
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Chris McCorkindale: UK Delegated Law-Making Powers in Devolved Areas: The Accountability Gap
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other posts in the series are available here.* On 24 October 2023 the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture (CEEAC) Committee of the Scottish Parliament published the second of two reports this session concerned with devolution in the post-EU era.…
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James Milton: Rule of Law, Political Accountability and the Importance of Culture
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other posts in the series are available here.* Political accountability plays a key role in the operation of the rule of law. This is the main claim I seek to defend through this blog post. My framework here is that…
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Leonid Sirota: (How) Can Big Government Be Kept Accountable?
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other posts in the series are available here.* This project started from an experience that will be familiar to just about any law lecturer: persuading first-year students, bewildered in their first week at university, that your subject means something to…
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Kate Ollerenshaw: Impact Assessment as an Accountability Mechanism: Past, Present and Future
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other posts in the series are available here.* Introduction On 19th September, the Government published a revised version of the Better Regulation Framework Manual setting out its new approach to impact assessment for regulatory measures. The system it will replace…
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Stephanie Reynolds and Mike Gordon: Mapping the Overarching Challenges for Constitutional Accountability – Blog Series Introduction
*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’. The other posts in the series will be available here. The UKCLA conference ‘Contemporary Challenges for Constitutional Accountability’ held in September 2023 aimed to reinvigorate the debate relating to the nature and operation of accountability in the UK constitution.…
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Reminder: UKCLA Annual General Meeting and Round Table – Wednesday 18th January 2023
This is a reminder that the UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held in person at 1.30pm on the 18th of January 2023 in the Keeton Room, Bentham House, University College London, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H OEG. The AGM is open to all paid up members of the UKCLA. All UKCLA members are invited…
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UKCLA Annual General Meeting and Round Table – Wednesday 18th January 2023
The UKCLA Annual General Meeting will be held in person at 1.30pm on the 18th of January 2023 in the Keeton Room, Bentham House, University College London, 4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, London, WC1H OEG. The AGM is open to all paid up members of the UKCLA. All UKCLA members are invited to an in person Round…
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Christmas Break
The UKCLA blog will close for the Christmas break on Tuesday 20th December 2022 and will re-open for posts on Monday 9th January 2023. We would like to extend our special thanks to the Blog Managers, Mark Bennett and Faryal Shafi, for all of their work to keep the blog running smoothly this year. Many…
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UKCLA Membership
Dear UKCLA members, Thank you to all members who have renewed their membership for this year. Ahead of our Annual General Meeting and Conference in January (details to follow shortly) can I invite any members who have not yet renewed for this year to do so. Just scroll your cursor onto the ‘About UKCLA’ section…
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Keith Ewing: Professor Anthony Bradley – An Appreciation (Part Two)
Editors’ note: Part One of this tribute to AW Bradley is available here. IV Shortly after Tony died, I wondered what would a constitution in Tony’s image look like. I asked a few people who knew him well about his intellectual influences. But we found it hard at this stage to pinpoint any particular source or…