Questions of Accountability

Convened by Prof Matthew Flinders & Dr Chris Monaghan. Email [email protected]. Supported by @PolStudiesAssoc. 1st conference in 2021 @uniworcester

[Questions of Accountability @QofA2021]

🚨🚨Calling all accountability researchers! The editors of Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies are looking for proposals from established & ECR researchers: https://t.co/D4HdLNSEx7…. They have a fantastic advisory board of scholars from around the globe:

[Aileen Kavanagh @AileenFKavanagh]

The 2022 Hamlyn Lectures are given by the great Prof Kate O’Regan @BonaveroIHR and former judge South African Constitutional Court on ‘The Courts and the Body Politic’. Nov 2 @QUBelfast Nov 9 @UofGlasgow Nov 16 @OxfordLawFac. Promises to be superb.

[Questions of Accountability @QofA2021]

The @QofA2021 team are Prof Matthew Flinders @PoliticalSpike, founder of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre @ShefUniPolitics & Dr Chris Monaghan @Chris_JMonaghan, founder of Constitutions, Rights & Justice SIG @worcester_uni.

[Questions of Accountability @QofA2021]

The @QofA2021 team are part of the editorial board of @RoutledgeLaw Frontiers in Accountability Studies. Check out the series & consider submitting a proposal: https://t.co/q9h6WnsS59

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Follow us at @QofA2021 for details of our future events!

[Questions of Accountability @QofA2021]

The @QofA2021 team are currently editing two edited collections for Routledge on the use of impeachment. The first looks at the use of impeachment in the UK & USA. The second, co-edited with Aziz Huq @aziz_huq, explores the global use of impeachment @RoutledgeLaw

[Questions of Accountability @QofA2021]

We are delighted to announce that an edited collection based on the conference will be published next year by Hart. Questions of Accountability: Prerogatives, Power and Politics fts essays from David Blunkett, Alison Young, Margit Cohn & others, with a foreword by Lord Neuberger.

[Chris Monaghan @Chris_JMonaghan]

Calling all scholars researching in accountability! @Ellen__Rock @ThomasSchillem2 @PoliticalSpike & I have a new book series - Routledge Frontiers in Accountability Studies - and we'd love to hear from ECRs & established scholars @RoutledgeLaw @routledgebooks #Accountability

[Johanna Fröhlich @FrohlichJohanna]

The Call for Papers for the Conference on the Constitutional Architecture of these Islands is out by the Great Britain and Ireland @ICON__S Chapter! Thanks @AileenMcHarg and colleagues! Deadline February 20! https://t.co/VqcG9aLuAg

[PSA Parliaments @psa_parl]

Can you help us complete the @psa_parl Parliament Overviews project - we are looking for overviews of countries including Russia 🇷🇺, China 🇨🇳 and Poland 🇵🇱 (plus many more!). Check out our website for current overviews & DM Chris for details: https://t.co/fkrTki0xvH

[Chris Monaghan @Chris_JMonaghan]

If you enjoyed watching 🇺🇸Impeachment: American Crime Story🇺🇸, then check out👀👀the panel discussion on impeachment at the @QofA2021 conference @Worcester- ft Clinton's White House lawyer & counsel who acted in both Trump impeachments: https://t.co/7FHFqiHQMn

[Yuan Yi Zhu @yuanyi_z]

Richard Ekins and John Larkin’s submission to the Gross Review has been published, with a foreword by Lord Sumption in which he suggests the UK should consider withdrawing from the ECHR. https://t.co/4CratcCBg2

[Political Studies Association @PolStudiesAssoc]

In this thorough blog, @Chris_JMonaghan, @CarolineBha & @A_Meakin outline the events that gave rise to the controversial attempt by the government to protect Paterson from sanction.

📑 Read it here:
https://t.co/SQi6b9B9fv

[Bruce Ackerman @backermanyale]

My Lecture, "How Brexit Has Shattered the British Constitution" is now on-line. It's the last Lecture in an afternoon series that begins with "Dr. Hannah White" so scroll down till you see her name. Reactions appreciated!https://t.co/owBYknKkmH

[Bruce Ackerman @backermanyale]

Has Brexit Shattered the Westminster System Beyond Repair - and, if so, what Next?: This is the subject of my Keynote Lecture at the International Conference on Accountability tomorrow, Wednesday at 11 AM US/Eastern//6 PM UK: https://t.co/DXiWMEaD5p

[John Keane @jkeaneSDN]

a few remarks on why past thinking about folly and fools has a new relevance in our age of mega-projects and cascading crises @QofA2021 @PoliticalSpike @paulthart88 @DrHannahWhite @ProjectQSydney @backermanyale @safecast https://t.co/rmTs6jL4oD

[Richard Albert @RichardAlbert]

🇬🇧 How many times has the "unwritten" UK Constitution been amended? One way to count amendments in the UK is to count changes to constitutional statutes. (But a conceptual challenge remains: how to identify a constitutional statute?)

Full text: https://t.co/giWtGes57L

[PSA Parliaments @psa_parl]

We have cross-posted @A_Meakin's blogpost on 'Using the past to help us to understand the future of the Palace of Westminster' on our @psa_parl blog. It was first published on @HistParl's blog. @UKParliament @Parliament_RR @HouseofCommons @UKHouseofLords
https://t.co/LTqeT44ufI

[PSA Parliaments @psa_parl]

Less than 5 days to go! The @psa_parl team are looking forward to welcoming delegates and presenters to our annual conference. See below for how to sign up.