Ben Yong
@bymyong.bsky.social
"Estimable" Sir Jonathan Jones KC Associate Prof in Public Law, Durham Law School. Looks at how legislatures and govt works. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benjamin-y-yong/ Mastodon: @bymyong@mstdn.social
Today is the last day to apply to join the Public Law editorial team as co-editor of the current survey section.
Public Law@publiclaw.bsky.social · 4w agoInterested in contributing to Public Law as Co-Editor of the journal's 'current survey' section and member of the journal's editorial committee? Then look👇
The ManReg Public Law Seminar Series hosted a book talk for Robert Thomas excellent new monograph 'Administrative Justice in the United Kingdom’. Lewis Graham acted as discussant. Many congratulations, Robert! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/administr... @uomsoss.bsky.social
Administrative Justice in the United Kingdom
This book critically examines the development and operation of administrative justice in the UK.Every day, people have millions of interactions with government…
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Spare a thought for 5 of my colleagues made to apply for their own jobs at a slightly higher grade. Every single one - even those ‘acting up’ for 18 months - rejected and made redundant. Stinks of a set-up.
Gareth Evans: Revisiting Senedd reform: Post-implementation review of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/10/22/g...
Gareth Evans: Revisiting Senedd reform: Post-implementation review of the Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024
The Senedd Cymru (Members and Elections) Act 2024 (“the Act”) introduced major structural and electoral changes to Senedd Cymru (Welsh Parliament) which took effect for the election on 7 May 2026. …
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Join our webinar 'Early Career Fragility & Professional Legal Ethics,' looking at how early career lawyers recognise & navigate ethical dilemmas. Prof Jacqueline Kinghan will be joined by discussants Rachel Knowles & Lucinda Soon. 16 Nov 1-2pm tinyurl.com/54z725jc @laws.ucl.ac.uk #ProfessionalEthics
Early Career Fragility and Professional Legal Ethics
A UCL Centre for Ethics & Law webinar
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Sure getting published is great and everything but reconnecting your home printer to WiFi? OMG
We don’t often hear about the staff who work diligently behind the scenes to support the work of the Intelligence and Security Committee. This is a rare and fitting tribute to Emma-Louise Avery who is retiring as Director and CEO of the ISC after more than 20 years service.
🎬 NEW: My latest podcast guest is the contemporary historian and recently retired peer, Lord Peter Hennessy. Reflecting on 16 years @houseoflords.parliament.uk, he shares his thoughts on power, public service, modern politics - & the UK's constitution.
What Britain's Leading Historian Thinks About Politics Now | Peter Hennessy: Lord Speaker's Corner
YouTube video by House of Lords
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Today is the 100th anniversary of Foucault's birth. A lot of publications and events have been timed to coincide with this. Here are a few.
My toddler wanted to go to the playground. A bunch of late primary schoolers are there, swearing and trying to strangle each other. I ask them to stop. Then one of them smashes a glass bottle next to the children's slide. I tell him off. He keeps saying he doesn't understand why what he did is wrong
There is still time left to apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The scheme supports UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in pursuing primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4iwQQtI
"Pointing to estimates of about 30,000 job losses in the past three years..." www.ft.com/content/ded7...
UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students
‘Very sharp downturn’ in enrolments risks hitting economic innovation and academic pipeline, lobby group says
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Happy to announce that my book *The Oldest Constitutional Question: Enumeration and Federal Power* is now available in paperback! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
The Oldest Constitutional Question — Harvard University Press
A groundbreaking challenge to a core principle of constitutional law, arguing that congressional action is not limited by the legislative branch’s textually enumerated powers.Every law student learns ...
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It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?
Edward@fornbirkibeinn.bsky.social · 3w agoAnecdotally what seems to be happening is that the Home Office is refusing all student visa applications from certain countries. The Treasury should have told them to knock if off years ago but at this point the FCO needs to tell them to stop trying to cause an international incident.
JOB: The Scottish Parliament is advertising for a Head of Parliamentary Scrutiny Salary: £96,353 - £121,139 @parliament.scot #Holyrood #job #vacancy #publicpolicy ce1046li.webitrent.com/ce1046li_web...
Exclusive: the government doesn’t want you to know who’s advising it on civil service reform medium.com/state-of-the...
Exclusive: the government doesn’t want you to know who’s advising it on civil service reform
The short version
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In case you are an academic who is currently being gaslit into believing that you're a caveman who wants their students to be jobless if you resist allowing AI in your classrooms... I present to you Berkeley Law's response, which can be summarized as "Fuck off directly into the sun."
Artificial Intelligence Policy
Effective Summer 2026 Purpose Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive […]
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Joanna Bell & Hayley J Hooper: Not in my (Constitutional) Backyard: How Not to Speed Up Planning Challenges ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/10/08/j...
Joanna Bell & Hayley J Hooper: Not in my (Constitutional) Backyard: How Not to Speed Up Planning Challenges
Important issues of UK constitutional law can arise in the most unusual of places. Some of the most important cases on undergraduate reading lists, for example, concerned disputes about fishing lic…
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The effects of not having a budget in place in NI are real and are being felt by publicly funded bodies - like QUB and UU - throughout NI. The Executive parties have to get back to keeping the lights on, or everyone will end up a lot poorer: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
What standard procedures should apply to Parliament Act bills in their second session? Following the defeat of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, former Clerk of the House of Commons David Natzler proposes changes to how bills are passed under the Parliament Act 1911. Read it 👇️
What standard procedures should apply to Parliament Act bills in their second session?
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill was recently defeated at second reading in the House of Commons, thereby ending its chances of being passed into law under the Parliament Act 1911 or otherwise. Sir David Natzler, former Clerk of the House of Commons, sets out what standard ‘second session’ procedures should apply in the House of Commons to future bills heading down this path.
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For those interested in parliamentary administration, the election of an AfD speaker in Saxony-Anhalt may be worth watching
Publius_Fella 🇺🇦🔱🇬🇪🇪🇺🇺🇸@publiusny.bsky.social · 3w agoBeloved university has rolled out copilot across university staff. In the instructions there is no information on how to remove it; only how it "benefits" us.
