Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy

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Delighted to announce a hybrid event to launchThe Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: ed Richard Bellamy and Jeff King

UCL 13 Oct 2025, 18:05 – 19:30, followed by a wine reception.

Event details and how to book an on line or in person place – are here

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Hybrid | The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: Launch Event This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.

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I have a new paper out online in @crispp.bsky.social: I argue that a focus on domination can help us better understand a renewed politics of working time - a reduction in work, the right to disconnect, and challenging employer authority over free time.

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Should Politicians Always Be Truthful? | UCL Uncovering Politics This week we ask if politicians should always be truthful? It often feels like many politicians themselves think not. But what does a healthy democracy demand?

I discuss its themes - in some ways part of a new book project - with Alan Renwick at: uncoveringpolitics.com/episodes/sho...

Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation - Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, 2025 It is sometimes suggested that even democratic politicians need to dirty their hands in ways that render hypocrisy, lying and deception unavoidable and even jus...

New article now out and on open access - “Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation” is now published in Volume 27, Issue 3 of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations and is available at doi.org/10.1177/1369...

Have read some of these papers and they were excellent @rbellamy.bsky.social

CRISPP 28.5 is now on line. A special Issue on Democratic Ethics and Voting edited by Annabelle Lever & Attila Mráz
– many articles open access – available at:

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Pleased that my exchange on Paul Tucker's stimulating Global Discord in now available OA on @crispp.bsky.social
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and reply:
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Temperatures could hit 27C on Saturday as UK’s sunniest spring on record draws to end Morning rain could affect Northern Ireland and Scotland but southern and eastern parts likely to remain dry

Even the Guardian in my view fails to underline how worrying this is …. The BBC treats such news as if we should be rejoicing and heading for the beach. No wonder climate change isn't being taken seriously.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

In defense of voting method publicity
Aylon Manor

Criminalising (cubes of) truth: animal advocacy, civil disobedience, and the politics of sight
Serrin Rutledge-Prior

Meaningful work, nonperfectionism, and reciprocity
Caleb Althorpe

Cancelling fiduciary excuses
Robert E. Goodin

Data-owning democracy or digital socialism?
James Muldoon

The multidimensional recognition of religion
Simon Thompson & Tariq Modood

Do global justice theorists need to alter their normative focus to accommodate changing empirical circumstances?
Teppo Eskeline

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Data based radicalism? data usage and the problem of critical distance in contextual and empirical political theory
Nahshon Perez

Can business corporations be legally responsible for structural injustice? The social connection model in (legal) practice
Barbara Bziuk

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Volume 28, Issue 4 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

The latest issue of CRISPP is now online:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c... - Muldoon on digital socialism,Thompson and Modood on religious recognition, Goodin on excuses, Althorpe on Meaningful work, Eskelinen on global justice, Perez on Data based radicalism and more ....

Engaging with the neon-machiavellian justification of lying and the Neo-Platonic notion of the 'noble' lie to argue for the need for political truthfulness

Great to see this symposium on my & Anne Barnhill's and Josh Milburn's recent monographs on food justice being published in @crispp.bsky.social! Many thanks to the guest editor, Tom Bailey, and to all the commentators!

Healthy eating policy and political philosophy and Food, justice, and animals: synopses and critical issues This essay introduces a symposium on two books that engage in debates in both liberal political philosophy and food ethics, Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti’s Healthy Eating Policy and Political Ph...

I'm thrilled to share that @crispp.bsky.social has started to publish a nine-article symposium on my Food, Justice, and Animals and @matteobonotti.bsky.social and Anne Barnhill's Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy.

First up: This is Tom Bailey's introduction to the symposium.

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Labour has to change tack and stop aping Reform on immigration and public spending before it is too late. Not only is it morally wrong, but also the strategy of growing the economy will also fail to materialise given Trump light policies have major economic costs that undermine any such recovery.

On why aping Reform is not only bad politics but also bad economics

In a week when Australia followed Canada in giving the neo-Trumpist parties an electoral drubbing, it was disappointing to say the least to see the Trump adjacent Reform do so well in the recent local elections and to win the Runcorn by-election.

The evolution of Incitement Online: from Brandenburg v. Ohio to Depiction of Zwarte Piet - MediaLaws Unlike states, social media companies – indeed, our new governors – only have voluntary commitments to International Human Rights Law (IHRL). However, once IHRL becomes the common language of content ...

Great blog on free speech and social media www.medialaws.eu/the-evolutio...

Great post graduate teaching opportunity at UCL

ABSTRACT Joseph Carens is well known for his defence of a general human right to freedom of interstate migration. Michael Blake, by contrast, has argued that, precisely because of the existence of human rights, states have the presumptive right coercively to prevent migrants from entering their territorial jurisdiction; as such, there is no human right to migration. Blake argues that, because states have a moral obligation to protect and fulfil the human rights of all persons in their territory but not elsewhere, when migrants enter a state’s territory, they impose new obligations on it that it did not previously have. He argues, moreover, that because to impose obligations is to impose new burdens, we have a right to refuse to have new obligations imposed on us without our consent. I show that Blake’s argument misconstrues the logical structure of conditional human-rights obligations, and that, once properly construed, it becomes clear that immigrants do not impose new human-rights obligations on states in virtue of their entry.

New from Arash Abizadeh, in a symposium on the work of Joseph Carens (RGCS Lecture Feb 24) in CRISPP (ed. by Richard Bellamy, RGCS Lecture Nov 24).
@abizadeh.bsky.social @rbellamy.bsky.social

"The burdens of jurisdiction and the alleged right to exclude unwanted migrants"

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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Relational Equality and Intergenerational Justice, edited by Devon Cass and Andre Santos Campos. Volume 28, Issue 3 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 28, No 3 (Special Issue) Relational Equality and Intergenerational Justice, edited by Devon Cass and Andre Santos Campos is now available on line – the Introduction on open access.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory Cambridge Core - Political Theory - The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory

Finally available on line (and in hard copy from next month) Essential reading - about a world we are in danger of losing - for the times we live in ... www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

Can the Rule of Law Meet the Hobbes Challenge? Democracy and the Rule of Law This chapter argues that the rule of law ultimately depends on law being the product of, and administered under, the democratic rule of persons. The rule of law cannot escape the ‘Hobbes challen...

New chapter on 'Can the Rule of Law Meet the Hobbes Challenge? Democracy and the Rule of Law'

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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Volume 28, Issue 2 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 28, No 1 (2025) is now on line:
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The issue contains seven articles and a book symposium on Tae-Yeoun Keum, Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought, Harvard University Press, 2020

CRISPP Essay Prize Explore the article collection: CRISPP Essay Prize. Published in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

The winner of the 2024 CRISPP Essay Prize, for the best essay in a normal issue published in Vol 26 (2023), goes to Edmund Tweedy Flanigan, 'From self-defense to violent protest' CRISPP, 26(7) (2023), 1094-1118

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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Justice for Denizens. Volume 28, Issue 1 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Special Issue on Justice for Denizens, edited by Johan Olsthoorn is now on line, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: (2025) Vol 28, No 1

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Great to have had Jacob Levy give the CRISPP BIAPT lecture once again