Centre for Constitutions in Context

On my way to London for this talk. Looking forward to being back at City, where I did my own PhD and the discussions to come this evening.

This is from 5.30-7.00 tonight.

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To register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/roundtable...

On 4 Mar 2026, we are hosting an online roundtable on #AI and #Constitutional_Law. Participating: Aziz Huq (Chicago), Giovanni De Gregorio (Católica), @jenraso.bsky.social (McGill), Mila Versteeg (Virginia) & @richardalbert.bsky.social (Texas), moderated by CCC co-director @davidvitale.bsky.social.

Book Launch: Queering UK Refugee Law: Sexual Diversity and Asylum Administration

Tomorrow's the day! I will be doing the first public launch event for my book at the University of Exeter. If you are free, please come along or join online! 📚

www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...

CCC co-director @davidvitale.bsky.social will chair. To register for the event - and obtain the Teams link to connect - see the CCC's Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-round...

On 2 Feb 2026, 2pm GMT, we will host a roundtable on the @universitypress.cambridge.org book 📙 by Mariëtta van der Tol (Cambridge), "Constitutional Intolerance: The Fashioning of the Other in Europe's Constitutional Repertoires". Fabio Wolkenstein (Vienna) & Signe Larsen (Warwick) will comment.

You can register for the event - and obtain the Teams link to connect - via the CCC's Eventbrite page here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contextual...

Participating journals are Comparative Constitutional Studies, @constlstudies.bsky.social, @euconst.bsky.social, @globcon.bsky.social, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and @publiclaw.bsky.social.

⌛ Less than 2 weeks until our exciting roundtable discussion on #Contextual Approaches to #Constitutional_Law in #Academic_Publishing with reps from 6 leading comparative con law journals, moderated by Prof @tomginsburg.bsky.social (Chicago) & chaired by CCC co-director Dr @davidvitale.bsky.social.

This new research seminar on Fourth Branch Constitutionalism is happening today! You can still register via Eventbrite to attend online (see details👇), or if on the Warwick campus, drop in S0.17.

To register and obtain the Teams link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-round...

There is still (some) time to register for this roundtable on the OUP book "Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment" by @rehanabeyratne.bsky.social! Discussion from Brenda Cossman (Toronto) & @apowelllaw.bsky.social (Warwick), chaired by CCC co-director @maramalagodi.bsky.social.

You can register for the event - and obtain the Teams link to connect - via the CCC's Eventbrite page here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/contextual...

Participating journals are Comparative Constitutional Studies, @constlstudies.bsky.social, @euconst.bsky.social, @globcon.bsky.social, the International Journal of Constitutional Law, and @publiclaw.bsky.social.

On 19 Nov 2025, 2pm GMT, we will host an online roundtable on #Contextual Approaches to #Constitutional_Law in #Academic_Publishing with reps from 6 leading comparative con law journals, moderated by Prof @tomginsburg.bsky.social (Chicago) & chaired by CCC co-director Dr @davidvitale.bsky.social.

To register for the seminar - and obtain the Teams link to connect - see our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-resear...

On 5 Nov 2025, 4pm GMT, we will host a seminar on new research by Prof Michael Pal (Ottawa) on #Fourth_Branch #Constitutionalism. Prof @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social (LSE) and Dr Ming-Sung Kuo (Warwick) will be responding; and CCC co-director Dr @maramalagodi.bsky.social will chair.

To register for the event - and obtain the Teams link to connect - see our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-round...

On 22 Oct 2025, 2pm BST, we will host a roundtable on the @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book by @rehanabeyratne.bsky.social (Western Sydney), "Courts and LGBTQ+ Rights in an Age of Judicial Retrenchment". Brenda Cossman (Toronto) & Alex Powell (Warwick) commenting; @maramalagodi.bsky.social chairing.

You can register for the lecture - and obtain the Teams link to connect to the event - via our Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ccc-inaugu...

Educated at the LSE and Yale Law School, Jill taught law for over 40 years at universities across the globe, including the University of Warwick. Jill also advised on the constitution-making processes of several countries, including East Timor, Nepal, Maldives, Iraq, and Somalia.

🗓️ Mark your calendars! Our first event will be an Inaugural Lecture delivered by the renowned and influential scholar and practitioner, Jill Cottrell Ghai, who will discuss Context in Comparative Constitutional Law. The lecture will be online (via an MS Teams town hall) on 16 Sept 2025 at 2pm BST.

Trust, Courts and Social Rights Cambridge Core - Constitutional and Administrative Law - Trust, Courts and Social Rights

And you can find the book here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

⭐️ CCC co-director @davidvitale.bsky.social has a new publication in the Cambridge Law Journal titled “Reimagining the Trust Conception of Legitimate Expectations” ⭐️

Mara Malagodi: The State of the Comparative Constitutional Law Field and the Re-Launch of Constitutional Studies Over the past three decades or so, comparative constitutional law has greatly advanced both as a site of scholarly inquiry and professional practice. As the field’s jurisdictional and thematic focu…

🤩 Congratulations to CCC co-director @maramalagodi.bsky.social - the co-editor-in-chief of the newly re-launched @constlstudies.bsky.social - on the publication of the re-launched journal's first issue. For more info, read Dr Malagodi's latest UKCLA blogpost: ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/03/u...

⭐ CCC member Dr Ming-Sung Kuo has a new publication in the Asian Journal of Comparative Law titled "Progress, Continuity, and Constitutional Amendment: Envisaging Legitimacy in the pre-Global South's Quest for Modernity in China and Taiwan" ⭐
doi.org/10.1017/asjc...

⭐ CCC co-director @maramalagodi.bsky.social has co-edited a new Special Section of the European Constitutional Law Review on "Gender, Populism, and Constitutional Degradation", including a co-written article on "Conceptualising the Link between Constitutional Degradation and Gender Populism" ⭐

New research centre at Warwick Law: The Centre for Constitutions in Context (CCC) (@cccwarwick.bsky.social). Founded by @maramalagodi.bsky.social and me, the CCC investigates constitutions in their broader context. Follow us for information, including events and news: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...

Last Thursday (12 June), I delivered the keynote at an event held @tilburg-university.bsky.social, organised by the Dutch Association of Constitutional Law and the VWR. In my keynote, I discussed my new book: doi.org/10.1017/9781.... Thanks to the organisers and participants for a wonderful event!

YouTube video by iProbono Legal Design User Manual Explainer Video

#DesignTheLawNepal video instruction for Legal Design Toolkit on sexual and reproductive health rights in Nepal — filmed with @sabrinagermain.bsky.social and Emily Allbon for our joint project w/ iProbono and LAPSOJ
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