Se-shauna Wheatle and Roger Masterman: The Legal and Political Dimensions of Unwritten Constitutional Norms and Principles ukconstitutionallaw.org/?p=16259

Here’s the dissolution proclamation, signed by the King at a Privy Council meeting this morning. Once that’s sealed this afternoon at the Crown Office (which may already happened), then Parliament is legally dissolved.

Following a generous donation by St Catharine's College alumnus Euan Finlay and his wife Emily Finlay, a new bursary has been established aimed at Scottish undergraduate students. I hope this encourages Scottish students to apply. caths.cam.ac.uk/scottish-bursa…

🚨The Constitution Society is delighted to announce that our Undergraduate Essay Prize 2024 in association with Hart Publishing is now open. Please share widely and encourage students to apply! 🚨 consoc.org.uk/undergraduate-…

Thanks to Colin Murray😉for reminding me to tweet about our *3 year* Career Development Fellowship in public law and human rights. Closing date 12 June. Please contact me if you want any further information.

With parties beginning to unveil their manifestos this week, UKCLA invites submissions considering constitutional aspects of those manifestos, as well as constitutional themes of the 2019-24 Parliament and those that may arise in the next Parliament

The arrival of Public Law's July 2024 issue on Westlaw UK is imminent. Analysis from Daniella Lock on the 'chameleonic' quality of the executive in national security law and Angelo Ryu on whether the error of fact doctrine is based on a mistake. Articles from ...

Chris McCorkindale and Aileen McHarg: The Territorial Constitution and the 2024 UK General Election ukconstitutionallaw.org/?p=25886

I've just donated to BAILII - Freeing the Law for All - you too can support them at: cafdonate.cafonline.org/24984

Back to Business 2024: A guide to the start of the new Parliament hansardsociety.org.uk/publications/b…

Our panel on ‘judicial review, the unwritten constitution and constitutional reasoning: comparative perspectives’ is taking place ICON•S this morning, chaired by Se-shauna Wheatle & incl presentations by Hayley J Hooper Hannah Birkenkötter Sarah Gagnon and Florian Meinel

Come work with us! This will be a Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism, full details of the Centre to be published in the coming months. Note this is not a post-doc but will be very interesting and substantive in nature.

In the next post in our Verfassungsblog series on unwritten constitutionalism, Dr Ruth Houghton reflects on the (un)writtenness of the global constitutional order: verfassungsblog.de/locating-unwri…

Don't hire a cleaner. Instead, invite an academic round for morning coffee and tell them they can't leave until they finish writing their paper. Thank me later. But no kidnapping, please.

The public longs for ethical governance - and UCL Constitution Unit, Institute for Government, Spotlight on Corruption, Transparency International UK, JUSTICE, Law Commission, PACAC Committee and others have made the tools that government needs to do the job. My speech recognises this: hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2024-07-…. /1

📢 Our weekly Parliament Matters Bulletin is back this weekend, providing an in-depth analysis of everything coming up in Parliament next week! Sign up to our mailing list to receive the Bulletin straight to your inbox every Sunday. hansardsociety.org.uk/about/subscribe

Philosophy twitter: what are the key conceptual differences between bridal entrance music and a UFC walkout song? Obviously asking for a friend.

Glasgow Gives 2024 glasgow.givingday.co.uk/giving-day/169… #GlasgowGives

In fairness, who wouldn't want to immediately read this case?

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