Mark Elliott

Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Author of

[David Erdos @DavidErdos]

New #dataprotection and #commonlaw systems research position based @TrinityHallCamb & @UCamCIPIL @cambridgelaw. Do you have a relevant legal background & strong research skills? Please do apply! Deadline 22 June. Details at https://t.co/ICPSuCgpsl

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

@lukeweston Aren't we agreeing?

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

The prospect of AI-generated student work that is, in turn, evaluated by AI is a dystopian prospect and represents an existential threat to the sector. Universities should have the courage to recognise this and design AI policies accordingly, however unfashionable that seems. 3/3

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

That AI isn't yet "good enough" to mark students' essays ought to be beside the point. Outsourcing such tasks to AI is fundamentally incompatible with the intellectual engagement between student and professor that should be central to higher education. /1
https://t.co/odMAjR88Qw

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

Academic writing isn't about producing "content". It's about thinking: grappling with ideas, refining arguments. Students should be encouraged to do that now more than ever. They are entitled, in return, to genuine intellectual encounter with a professor who marks their work. /2

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

New post

The Prime Minister as an MP: A postscript on historical precedent and constitutional convention

https://t.co/kdrqDDBukX

[Daniel Gover @DanielGover]

🚨Could the Parliament Acts be used to pass assisted dying?

As I say in this clip:
🔵 Never previously used on a PMB
🔵 But explicitly intended to apply to PMBs, not just govt bills
🔵 In practice, not straightforward to do, but possible

[Leonie Hughes @LeoBHughes_]

Well it’s not everyday you receive a letter from 10 Downing Street. I’m most grateful to @middletemple for forwarding this on to me. What a great end to the week. Thank you very much for the endorsement. @Keir_Starmer @10DowningStreet

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

My blog, https://t.co/9zE06hRsrY, now features "Not by AI" badging. For more information on the Not by AI initiative, see: https://t.co/kQdFxwpe1o.

[Philip Murray @philipmurraylaw]

This is the way.

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

This is very interesting: a post-plagiarism conception of AI misuse that also prohibits its use for "conceptualising" and "outlining". The guiding principle – that "*thinking* remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)" – is surely right.

[Chris Hoofnagle @hoofnagle]

Berkeley law has introduced a new, much stricter AI policy
https://t.co/wlNs2cUrKz

[Adm. Court Blog @admcourtblog]

Challenging sanctions: public law, Saini-style https://t.co/EPOPkGQ6gU

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

@drdeanknight Exactly. The old practices, already isolated examples 60 years ago, are artefacts of an era when attachment to now-dominant norms was less strong. But the increasingly predominant nature of commitment to relevant norms in the intervening decades confines the old egs to history.

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

Interesting piece on whether PM must be an MP, partly responding to my analysis (https://t.co/GwYeZocHsS). Key Q is whether precedent from 1960s remains persuasive. I doubt it, given 60+ years of now consistent practice. Convention flexes as practice & political mores develop.

[UKCLA @ukcla]

Dane Luo: Andy Burnham and the Constitution – The Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister https://t.co/W4W4npdRqn

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

@drdeanknight Very sensible!

[St Catharine's College @Catz_Cambridge]

We gave a family of ducks the VIP treatment through Main Court yesterday. Each spring ducklings hatch across Cambridge & porters guide them towards the river – a tradition that we would never want to duck out of!
Music: Fluffing a Duck" Kevin MacLeod (https://t.co/vgmufFUUQ7)

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

On which now see: https://t.co/FAJqXEHgp4

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

The gutting of the principle of legality – part of a much wider trend of constitutional regression in the senior courts' case law – continues apace.

[Philip Murray @philipmurraylaw]

Really important post on the worrying ways in which the principle of legality is now being used by the courts.

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

New post

Ismailov v Foreign Secretary: Constitutional revisionism and the principle of legality

https://t.co/FAJqXEHgp4

[Mark Elliott @ProfMarkElliott]

The gutting of the principle of legality – part of a much wider trend of constitutional regression in the senior courts' case law – continues apace.

[Judicial Office @JudiciaryUK]

The full judgment in Sarvar Ismailov -v- Foreign Secretary can now be read on the judicial website: https://t.co/nGIqSvoV25