🌏 Coming soon: The Global Review of Constitutional Law -- now in its 9th year -- featuring reports written by scholars and judges on constitutional and supreme court rulings from around the world over the past year.
A joy to work with David, Pietro, Giulia, our associate editors Paula Schier and Pruthvi Zala, and our outstanding contributors.
And a privilege to partner as always with @ICONnectblog and the Constitutional Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Yesterday, I chatted to @RuthFox01 and @DArcyTiP of the @HansardSociety about what Parliament could do about Prince Andrew... you can listen to this below.
Wales is overhauling its democracy 🗳️
What’s changing? More Senedd members, new voting systems & more transparency.
Stephen Clear (Bangor Uni) breaks it down in this piece, republished from @ConversationUK:
🔗 https://t.co/wEzpyugxfP
Britain’s centuries-old tradition of hereditary peerage in the House of Lords is coming to an end as new legislation removes the last 92 remaining hereditary peers.
https://t.co/TkcHJeBm8q
Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas 1946-2025
It is with deep sadness that the University learns of the death of The Rt Hon. Lord Elis-Thomas.
https://t.co/OmIMEllyqW
The former president of the supreme court who ruled on the most high-profile assisted dying cases has declared his support for the law change.
https://t.co/JpIiavvw5m
Because I like a challenge, I’ve spent the past year or so “mapping” (or perhaps summarising) the UK constitution in this new @commonslibrary research briefing: https://t.co/dl1BC68Pc0 1/2
The @ICON__S Constitution Making Interest Group invites you to submit paper proposals or volunteer as discussants for panels on constitution-making at the ICON-S Annual Conference 2025 in Brasilla. Full details are in the poster below.
Tony Blair recounts a ridiculous tie design procurement process for an EU summit (featuring an Italian accent).
Not sure any frontline UK politician today could carry a story like that.
Several commissions have advocated for the devolution of policing and justice to Wales, but the move doesn’t currently feature in the Labour Government’s plans; Bangor University Law Lecturer Stephen Clear, and Chaynee Hodgetts, a Barrister and Honorary Lecturer at Queen Mary University of London, argue that despite the challenges, starting the process of devolution represents an opportunity for the Government to bring about meaningful change.
https://t.co/UZaf83wWNW
@stephenclear@BangorUni@BangorUniLaw@QMUL
To mark the 15th anniversary of the @UKSupremeCourt, Commons Library researchers met with Lord Reed to present their briefing on the origins, role, regulation and legacy of the institution and its judges.
This briefing is available to everyone online: https://t.co/n9ASriopnU
Should care be a constitutional value? What is the potential of regarding care as a constitutional issue?
@SandraFredman (@OxfordLawFac) discusses these timely and complex questions in this article.
OA, in ICON
https://t.co/P5a1mU5pGd