This is very sad. A giant.

ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/04/17/pau…

We are organizing a workshop at UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy with Lisa Vanhala and Veronika Fikfak for early career scholars working on law and courts. We had a lot of success with this format last year at Oxford. The workshop is methodologically very open, so do not hesitate to apply.

Deadline this Friday:

Glasgow School of Law is advertising two PhD scholarships in the areas of Scots Private Law and *UK Public Law*. Spread the word! This is a brilliant opportunity for funded doctoral research at one of the best law schools out there! Details in the link: gla.ac.uk/colleges/socia…

A new paper in which I get to be a full on empirical legal scholarship nerd - “We Need To Talk About Method: A Call for More and Better Empirical Environmental Law Scholarship”. academic.oup.com/jel/advance-ar…

Job alert: LSE Law School has advertised for a fixed-term fellowship in any area of law. Closing date: 14 April 2024

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/15…

A puzzling irony about UK public law scholarship: here we are in the home of the “political constitution”, where the constitution is “no more and no less than what happens”, and yet there is still precious little empiricism or dialogue with political science.

This should go to the top of the reading list !

New fully funded PhD opportunity to join the Administrative Fairness Lab group, this time based at Strathclyde Law School. The project, which will be supervised by Simon Halliday and Chris McCorkindale, focuses on delay and fairness in public services: findaphd.com/phds/project/t…

Excited to share my #CambridgeElements 'Courts and Politics in Southeast Asia' offering insights into the intersection of law and governance in the region. Best of all, it's free to read for the next 2 weeks! Access via link below 👇👇👇 #Courts #SoutheastAsia #Politics 📚🌏

This recent article by Eugenia Artabe and Alex Badas is nice! Measuring the Countermajoritarian Nature of Supreme Court Decisions | The Journal of Legal Studies: Vol 52, No 2 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

My new Article is out International Journal of Constitutional Law! I discuss how courts utilize different strategies to defy the constitutional status quo and acquire power to review constitutional amendments.
'Judicial self-empowerment and unconstitutional constitutional amendments' academic.oup.com/icon/article/d…

Highly recommended - an excellent read - comprehensive, up-to-date, but also Welikala pulls no punches!

“Threats to Judicial Independence” - my chapter in the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Comparative Judicial Behavior, eds Epstein et al, is now early online: academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…. Chuffed to be a part of this brilliant star-studded book!

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New empirical article in Journal of Law & Courts examining behaviour at oral argument at the High Court of Australia. In the article Tonja Jacobi, Pat Leslie and I discuss the drivers of interruptions at oral argument and develop a novel method for examining gender effects 1/3

Welcome - along with launch of V14 of the V-Dem dataset!

This was an amazing event. The papers were very strong, we met scholars from all over the region. We felt utterly safe, and were dancing in the streets to celebrate #Iraq victory over #Japan in the #AsianCup2023 . Baghdad is back, baby!