Colm O'Cinneide

the elevation of “separation of powers” as the paramount value of the constitution is just rhetorical justification for presidential dictatorship, since that is what you have when the legislative branch cannot constrain the exercise of executive power through law.

Professor Colm Ó Cinnéide to deliver annual FLAC lecture Renowned human rights lawyer and academic Professor Colm Ó Cinnéide will deliver FLAC's annual justice lecture next week. This year's event celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth ...

On Monday.

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Professor Colm Ó Cinnéide to deliver annual FLAC lecture Renowned human rights lawyer and academic Professor Colm Ó Cinnéide will deliver FLAC's annual justice lecture next week. This year's event celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth ...

On Monday.

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It's the 174th anniversary of the 18 Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (the event, not the pamphlet).

But of course it's not relevant to our times: it's impossible nowadays to imagine the President of a large republic subverting the constitution to get around its prohibition on a further term in office.

The Home Office is clearly pushing for illegal migrants=asylum seekers. Interesting to see that many media didn't use the Home Office headline, and preferred 'asylum seekers'.

Today 15 brave smallholder Kenyan farmers who appealed a Seed Act which criminalised them for saving,sharing&selling their own seeds won their case in the High Court.
Glad that my PhD findings were submitted in this case and assisted in the win.Here's a video of it!
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Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens

Once more leaning in to “Let’s just be assholes”. Right across the spectrum of cases and circumstances, it’s all so hateful and pointless.

Basically, all bad news!

I don't see much difference between Reform & the Tories now. If anything, the Tories are heading in a more 'radical' direction when it comes to immigration. And FPTP bad for cordon sanitaire politics in the longer term.

How will FPTP cope with this?

It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.

One finding in sociological research is that in cultures that "mass produce" children by enslaving women, the value of any individual human life plummets. To the degree that a society grants humanity to women, the value of any individual life increases in direct correspondence.

Reading about the bolsheviks and if podcasts had existed back then all these guys would've done that instead

After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF

Positive Obligations to Protect the Population under Human Rights Law Published in Judicial Review (Ahead of Print, 2025)

Guy Baldwin, "Positive Obligations to Protect the Population under Human Rights Law" (Ahead of Print, Judicial Review)

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This (from: www.ft.com/content/75ce...) is something you can *feel* if you are in the UK, especially if you've experienced living abroad. But infuriatingly successive governments and our entire media are somehow absolutely committed to suggesting anyone who wants to change this is the devil...

Citizenship ceremonies are one of the most joyous celebrations of America that you can find. 100% patriotism vibes from people who believe in the American dream. So no surprise that these ghouls would cancel them.

I enjoyed this opportunity to speak with Aron Buzogány on the current pressures facing climate movements — restrictions on activists, democratic backsliding and the far-right opposition to climate policy, the relationship with the media, and reinvention.

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V good piece this - asks the two important policy questions about the government's approach on asylum.

Significant changes likely coming down the line for religious education in NI... In a nightmare for Paul Givan, the UKSC blows through the NICA's (pretty contorted) efforts to maintain the status quo with a straight application of unambiguous Strasbourg case law:

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Labour has given up on integration Shabana Mahmood's latest asylum plans prioritise return at the expense of integrating newcomers

Remember integration? That thing voters "really, really" care about? Where's that in the latest plans?

My column:

There are many factors at play in how the discourse of UK political governments became detached from (geo)political reality, but a key aspect is in how both Labour and Conservatives came to assert supposed Brexit benefits that much of the rest of the country knows are pure fantasy

predatory men are an enormous tax on women’s productivity (and happiness)

Lots of interesting legal detail here, backed up by a close focus on perverse incentive arguments in particular.

This does seem to be a relevant question. Reading the Sun and Guardina pieces side by side it is hard to believe they are describing the same policy. That kind of spin might have worked in 1990s but in a social media ecosystem where anger goes viral is is likely to generate own goals

Imagine having a thumping majority in parliament and deciding to use it for something as squalid as this.

Great to see that the White House and the Daily Mail are as excited by the upcoming publication of my BBC Reith Lectures as I am!

The end of dollar hegemony will transform U.S. debt from a fiscal drag into a high-yield fusion bomb.

For decades dollarization has generated structural demand for U.S. treasuries, depressing the interest rates the U.S. needs to offer to service its debt.

Come work with me, in this beautiful listed building* alongside some really cracking Criminology colleagues**

#LAWJOBS
#CRIMINOLOGYJOBS

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* it doesn't look like that all year round obviously...today it's like a monsoon has hit
** & supposedly the ghost too

This event was organised by the Institute for Human Rights and the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.Speakers: Former Judge Robert Spano, Former President of European Court of Human… The Future of the ECHR - In Europe and UK

Last week Robert Spano, Jens Elo Peters Rytter, @colmocinneide.bsky.social, @alicedonald.bsky.social and @profveronika.bsky.social discussed the future of the European Convention on Human Rights, including what Denmark has done.

Watch a recording of the event at @laws.ucl.ac.uk 👇