Roger Masterman

Excellent news, David - no one better placed to write this!

Glorious!

October 2025 issue of Public Law is incoming - and still a couple of weeks left to apply to become a member of the journal's editorial committee: www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/content/dam/...

Will speak to @aileenmcharg.bsky.social about this tomorrow.

Conor Gearty died a month ago yesterday. He was deeply committed to human rights law without idealising it. He recognised its power & value while acknowledging its limitations (& those of the people engaging with it). He was also an exceptional lawyer. This is a fitting final piece in the @lrb.co.uk

The law/wrestling crossover you didn't know you needed from @alangreene.bsky.social

Conor Gearty obituary A skilled and persuasive human rights lawyer who fought for civil liberties in the face of over-reaching anti-terror law

Conor Gearty obituary - The Guardian

www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

Interested in joining the Editorial Committee of Public Law? Then see below. Happy to field queries etc from interested candidates.

niche.

Wrote a piece - with Matt Nicholson - on whether dualism provides an effective guide to, or description of, the UK's relationship with international laws (tl;dr summary: not really). It will be coming out in the CLJ in due course, but you can read it *now* here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

(and if you are interested in this piece, you might also like Joanna's excellent forthcoming MLR piece on JR of the improper policy implementation of treaties, which can be found here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....)

many thanks to @aileenmcharg.bsky.social, @seshauna.bsky.social, @legalmusings.bsky.social, Joanna Bell, Theodore Konstantinides and the CLJ reviewers for their earlier thoughts and suggestions.

Wrote a piece - with Matt Nicholson - on whether dualism provides an effective guide to, or description of, the UK's relationship with international laws (tl;dr summary: not really). It will be coming out in the CLJ in due course, but you can read it *now* here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...

The Bingham Centre has a new Vacancy for a Research Fellow in Public Inquiries and Rule of Law
Applications by 3 August
Find out more buff.ly/sUeq1Bd

Career Development Fellow in Public Law at Durham University An opportunity for an academic position as a Career Development Fellow in Public Law is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Durham Law is hiring a 3yr career development fellow in public law! Some lovely ppl here: @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social @lizaoloughlin.bsky.social @seshauna.bsky.social @rogermasterman.bsky.social @dkagiaros.bsky.social @nataliesedacca.bsky.social ... and @aileenmcharg.bsky.social
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On 2 June, the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk will collaborate with scholars incl our members @ucllaws.bsky.social, @durham-university.bsky.social & @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social on a workshop on the role of politicians & parliamentary personnel in sustaining the unwritten dimension of constitutionalism

House of Lords Constitution Committee’s report on the employment rights bill: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

„What do these events have in common? They reflect a multipronged attack, heedless of academic or press freedoms and the rule of law, against institutions of knowledge and of law.“

From this week‘s @verfassungsblog.de editorial by the brillant Vicki C. Jackson:

verfassungsblog.de/education-de...

Also featuring the current survey (c/o
Sarah Nason and Lee Marsons) and book reviews (c/o @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social) on books inc the "Camb Const History of the UK" and Cora Chan's "Deference in Human Rights Adjudication". Thanks to all contributors, reviewers, etc.

... Commissioner as a constitutional regulator;
Sanjit Nagi on the Attlee Govt's views on European rights protection; Sarah Sorial and Shireen Morris
on Mini-Publics; and Marcus Teo on Administrative Expertise and Wednesbury.

... "Citizenship and Race"; and Suhraiya Jivraj, "Towards an Anti-Racist Pedagogy." Articles are from Lia Lawton, on s.31(2A) of the Senior Courts Act; @plagasse.bsky.social and Daniel Skeffington on the navy and the prerogative; Pamela Cox, Ruth Lamont and Maurice Sunkin on the Victims' ...

The April 2025 issue of Public Law is now avail. on
Westlaw feat. a themed analysis section - Race and Public Law - compiled by @vidyakumar.bsky.social. Papers are by Vidya, on "Race and the UK Constitution"; Shreya Atrey "A Common Law principle of racial equality?"; Tom Frost ...

Almost four remaining weeks in which to think about putting together a themed collection of short (4000 word) ‘analysis’ pieces for Public Law …

Call for Evidence - Committees - UK Parliament Call for evidence

New inquiry announcement from the House of Lords Constitution Committee: committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...

V interesting - and a nice trailer for the sequel to/remake of the executive in the constitution.

Each year Public Law carries a series of analysis pieces (4000 words ea) united around a particular theme. The call for guest editors of the 2026 collection is now out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

HL Constitution Committee’s short report on the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill: publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

Mike Gordon: Labour’s Ministerial Code and Political Standards Reform On 6th November, Prime Minister Keir Starmer published his (long awaited) revised version of the Ministerial Code.  A written statement in Parliament by the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaste…

Mike Gordon: Labour’s Ministerial Code and Political Standards Reform ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/12/05/m...

this is obviously where the real lawyers are.

I'm co-organising an event on 'Human Rights in the United Kingdom under Conservative Government'. The conference is on 26 November 2024 at Northumbria Law School. Please register and take a look at the programme via the link below. Reposts welcome!

www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/new...