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Call for Papers: Is Democracy Possible?/ SLS Public Law ECR and PGR event (25 February)

Keele Law Review The Keele Law Review is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its sixth […]

UKCLA February 7, 2025 Calls for Papers

Sonia Anaid Cruz Dávila: Between Arbitrary & Justifiable Discretion: What Does It Tell Us About the Constitutionality of Populism?

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With the upcoming presidential elections in the United States, fears that Donald Trump may return to the White […]

UKCLA October 1, 2024 Constitutional Accountability

Tim Sayer: The Passive Virtues and the Abuse of Delegated Legislation: Courts, the Political Constitution and the Public Order Act 1986 (Serious Disruption to the Life of the Community) Regulations 2023

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In 1961 Alexander Bickel argued that the US Supreme Court should adopt what he called the ‘passive virtues’ – minimising […]

UKCLA June 19, 2023 Civil Liberties, Judicial review, law-making

Brian Christopher Jones: Leadership exit points in the UK constitution 

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The UK constitution contains numerous ways that a serving Prime Minister can be deposed. Although we’ve seen this […]

UKCLA June 5, 2023 Constitutional Accountability

Ronan Cormacain: The rise and rise of the super-enabling clause

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It has become increasingly popular to include what I term a ‘super-enabling clause’ in primary legislation. It is […]

UKCLA November 30, 2022 Devolution, UK Parliament

Steven Chaplin: There’s a time and place for prorogation — and this is it

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As I sit and watch the turmoil at Westminster on the morning (afternoon in London) that Liz Truss […]

UKCLA October 25, 2022 UK Parliament

Alison Young: Declaratory Orders and Constitutional Guardrails

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The recent decision of the Supreme Court in Craig v HM Advocate (for the Government of the United States […]

UKCLA March 10, 2022 Constitutional Law

James Milton: The Antiquity of Anonymous Pairing

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Recently, online debates have emerged about the usefulness of the website TheyWorkForYou (TWFY), a tool which provides people […]

UKCLA February 2, 2022 UK Parliament, United Kingdom

Chris Monaghan: Party-gate as a Ground for Impeachment? Perhaps, But We Need to Modernise Impeachment Before It Is Fit For Purpose

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In a recent post published on the UKCLA blog, I argued that impeachment could serve a purpose in […]

UKCLA January 26, 2022 Constitutional Accountability, Prime Minister, United Kingdom

Ronan Cormacain: Blue-eyed Babies, Amnesties, Sovereignty of Parliament and the Rule of Law: The Northern Ireland Legacy Proposals

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Could Parliament pass a law that all blue-eyed babies be murdered?  This was the hypothetical question posed by […]

UKCLA November 25, 2021 Northern Ireland, Parliamentary sovereignty, UK government, UK Parliament

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