Dr Michael Lane

Joint Statement: Concerns Over USA's Engagement with the UN UPR CONCERNS OVER USA’S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW Joint Statement of the UPR Project at BCU and UPR Academic Network regarding the United States of America’s Fourth Cycle Universal ...

Sign our Joint Statement to call on the USA to engage with its upcoming UN Universal Periodic Review, which reviews all 193 UN Member States’ human rights record ⬇️

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Thanks to @publiclaw.bsky.social for publishing my article on decision making under the Prevent and Channel duties. So long in the writing that the Prevent Duty guidance and definition of extremism were updated and a review of Prevent was published, which didn't slow things down further at all.

Really important ECtHR decision this morning declaring the Dalton case inadmissible. This is a really important case on human rights and the legacy of the NI conflict:

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I attended the Committee in May 2023 during my PhD, but this session will be broadcast live (which is midly terrifying..). The UN system needs buy-in from domestic stakeholders, so it's really exciting to see our work pay off with Parliament more regularly (& publicly) engaging with the UPR.

Later this month, I'll be giving evidence for the Joint Committee on Human Rights in Parliament on the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) with @dralicestorey.bsky.social and @jonyorke.bsky.social.

Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July.

If this thread is anything to go by, it's been a disaster for Falkner & EHRC.

Calling all colleagues working on the UN international human rights mechanisms, if you've any open access materials that might be relevant, do share!

I hope, as R2, you rejected a perfectly good manuscript and had a good time telling the author that they should have written a different paper.

The @ec.europa.eu fully supports the ICC and its officials.

The ICC holds perpetrators of the world’s gravest crimes to account and gives victims a voice.

It must be free to act without pressure.

We will always stand for global justice and the respect of international law.

Today, #ICC appeal chamber judges will decide whether the Confirmation of Charges hearing for Joseph #Kony - leader of the #LRA charged with #warcrimes and #crimesagainsthumanity in #Uganda - can go ahead in his absence.

Leading Works in the History of the Constitution This collection brings together academic analysis of leading contemporary accounts of the British Constitution with key constitutional documents and sources, while also offering analysis of the leadin...

Very excited to have edited this volume in @sandbergrlaw.bsky.social’s Leading Works series.

Leading Works in the History of the Constitution will be published in August.

The book launch is on 26 September, with Lady Hale delivering the keynote.

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High court judge blocks UK from concluding Chagos Islands deal Government had been due to give green light to deal handing sovereignty of islands to Mauritius A high court judge has blocked the UK government from concluding its deal to hand over the Chagos Islands with an injunction granted in the early hours of Thursday. The agreement to hand sovereignty over the Chagos islands to Mauritius was due to be given the green light by ministers on Thursday. Continue reading...

High court judge blocks UK from concluding Chagos Islands deal

Petition An Open Letter to Keir Starmer We, the undersigned, strongly advise against the proposed changes to the UK immigration system of May 12, 2025, and your associated rhetoric. We are UK-based academics.....

My colleague @mgerver.bsky.social has created this open letter to Keir Starmer opposing the measures announced in last week's Immigration White Paper, on economic, political and moral grounds.

Open to all academics/researchers to sign.

molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

Flagging this open letter, by lawyers (academic and practicing) expressing grave concerns with the reasoning in the UKSC's FWS judgment, the terms of subsequent EHRC interim statement and impact on trans people. Open for signature by UK based lawyers until 4pm today:

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Croatia claiming the entire Adriatic, perhaps?

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED!

The deadline for abstracts for our one day workshop on Re-Imagning Counter-terrorism Law has been extended to this Friday, 2nd May.

The workshop will take place in Birmingham on 12th June with Prof Conor Gearty as the keynote speaker.

UPR Academic Network Visit the post for more.

That sounds really interesting. Might be worth looking at Philip Alston's recent OA text: humanrightstextbook.org/digital-book.

Beyond that, on the UPR specifically, if you e-mail me I can send you a long list of OA articles. My OA book on the UPR will also be out next year.

There's lots of really interesting work on the HRC's politicisation and how it has addressed (or rather not) the selectivity of its predecessor. You may have already read, but in case you haven't:

doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngx027

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/8484z

Fred Cowell and I were kindly asked by the Law Society to write a short blog on our recent work on the United Nations UPR and its applicability in E&W courts. You can read it here www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/blogs...

Book launch: ‘Exploring Parliament’ | Institute for Government An expert panel explore how Parliament works, who works there, and how this institution keeps evolving.

Join us for the launch of the 2nd ed of Exploring Parliament, a new book bridging academic insights and real life experience to bring parliament to life for readers!

Register via the link below to watch the event online - 15 May 5.30pm
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/online...

Calls for Papers: In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights / UKCLA ECR workshop deadline extended Call for Papers: In the Name of National Security: The Fragility of Human Rights The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will co-host a workshop …

Calls for Papers: In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights / UKCLA ECR workshop deadline extended ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/04/04/c...

Call for applications: International Law Commission assistants roster

Secretariat launches call for qualified individuals to be included in roster of potential research assistants for Special Rapporteurs, Study/Working Group Chairs

Deadline: 15 April

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Josie Welsh: “[No audible response]” is not how the Lady Chief Justice leads her judiciary In an earlier blog post, I noted that we would be waiting with interest to see how the (then newly appointed) Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales (LCJ), Baroness Carr, would use her power, whet…

Josie Welsh: “[No audible response]” is not how the Lady Chief Justice leads her judiciary ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/04/01/j...

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#LegalPublishing

Snap. There is also an assumption that lectures are not inclusive but (at least from what I can tell from my students) this has not been my experience at all. We shouldn't downplay the value of instruction as a pedagogical tool.

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Public law colleagues: there is *one week* left to submit your abstract for the Public Law Section at this years SLS Annual Conference. Doctoral students are very welcome and encouraged to submit papers.

All details below 👇

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Invitation To Tender - Terms of Reference for Consultant Researcher(s) to address Freedom of Expression across UK University Campuses We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.

📢: Amnesty International UK is commissioning research looking at the censorship of people who speak about Palestinian human rights at UK universities. If you’ve got relevant skills and are interested in this area, consider applying to do this work. www.amnesty.org.uk/jobs/terms-r...

Call for Papers: Re-Imagining Counter-Terrorism Law Workshop

Come and talk to us in Birmingham about your interesting research in the area of counter-terorrism.