Newcastle Law School’s Dr Sylvia de Mars will be a keynote speaker at the University of Worcester’s Brexit conference,10 years on from the referendum.Her expertise in transnational public law will add valuable insight on Brexit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy presented the paper “Algorithmic repackaging of harm: the role of the prohibition of discrimination in prohibiting harmful price discrimination,“ Workshop “AI and Equality,” University of Southampton, 15-16 April 2026

@ruthhoughton.bsky.social will be presenting the paper 'Another Now: Reading Utopias as Method for Feminist Constitutionalism' at Oxford Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion group (29th April 2026) www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...

In the new episode of ‘Talking about Methods’, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue and @ruthhoughton.bsky.social about utopia as a method frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/utopia-as-a-...

New article written by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social “Too Utopian”: Theories of Utopia in Constituent Power. Global Constitutionalism 2026. In Press. eprint.ncl.ac.uk/310561

New episode of #CalledToTheBar featuring ConGov member @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and her co-editors Aoife O'Donoghue and Cher Weixia Chen on their new Research Handbook on Global Governance. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

65. Global Governance: Promise, Power, and the Limits of the ‘Global’

In this episode of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast), Ruth Houghton (Newcastle University), and Cher Weixia Chen (George Mason Univers

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Check Dr Sean Molloy new blog post: peacenews.com/connecting-t...

Connecting the Dots: Placing Children Within the Wider Landscape of Peace Studies - Peace News Network

One group remains consistently absent from formal peace negotiations: children. Sean Molloy reflects on how to fix this.

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New article written by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and Thais Andrade Brugnerotto, 'Constituent Power and the feminist approach: an analysis of the Constituent Assembly in Brazil in 1987' revistas.ufpr.br/rinc/article...

A blog on why myself @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen decided to put together this Handbook on Global Governance & asking 'Why Bother' elgar.blog/2025/12/05/w...

“Why Bother?” Reclaiming Global Governance in Troubled Times - ElgarBlog

In the opening chapter of this new Research Handbook on Global Governance, Aoife O’Donoghue asks, “why bother?” In an age when international cooperation and collaboration is on the decline, attempts t...

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A Handbook on Global Governance, why bother? This blog sets out the impetus behind the Research Handbook on Global Governance edited by @aoifemod.bsky.social, Cher Weixia Chen and me elgar.blog/2025/12/05/w...

“Why Bother?” Reclaiming Global Governance in Troubled Times - ElgarBlog

In the opening chapter of this new Research Handbook on Global Governance, Aoife O’Donoghue asks, “why bother?” In an age when international cooperation and collaboration is on the decline, attempts t...

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New Book Research Handbook on Global Governance www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/12/2...

Blog on @globalpolicy.bsky.social about the Research Handbook on Global Governance @elgarpublishing.bsky.social edited by @aoifemod.bsky.social, Cher Weixia Chen and me www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/12/2...

Earlier this month, out star ConGover @ruthhoughton.bsky.social participated in the Durham Cathedral Institute Debate on Magna Carta and its influence today. You can watch the debate here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS2X...

Magna Carta and its influence today: A Durham Cathedral Institute debate

YouTube video by Durham Cathedral

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Check out our ConGover Tanya Krupiy’s recent podcast interview: Title: Do we need new AI laws? podcasts.ncl.ac.uk/fromnewcastl... Hosted by Callum Borkowski

Our ConGov stars💫 Adam Rowe and @ruthhoughton.bsky.social just published a fascinating article:Rowe, Adam and Houghton, Ruth. "Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State" Pólemos, vol. 19, no. 2, 2025, pp. 281-307. doi.org/10.1515/pol-...

Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State

For a reflection on the role of literature in the construction of constitutionalism within the Anglosphere, the writings of a French salon-hostess in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...

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Check out our amazing ConGover @sylviademars.me’s new co-authored article: Elizabeth Sorensen, Sylvia de Mars and David McArdle, ‘Students, Student-Athletes, and the Title IX Religious Exemption’ (2025) 35 Journal of Legal Aspects of Sports 102-165 doi.org/10.18060/28825

@benfarrand.bsky.social(3/3):Farrand B. Cybercrime in the TCA:Reduced Cooperation in an Environment of Regulatory Divergence?.In:Davies,G;Carrapico,H,ed.UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit: Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Oxford Dublin:Hart Publishing,2025, pp.287-298

@benfarrand.bsky.social (2/3)Combating the Dissemination of Counterfeit Goods Post-Brexit:Intellectual Property,Information Sharing and Shared Insecurity.In:Davies,G;Carrapico,H,ed. UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit:Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.,pp.231-242:

Check the latest work of our ConGover @benfarrand.bsky.social: (1/3) Carrapico H, Farrand B. EU Data Sovereignty: An Autonomy–Interdependence Governance Gap?. Politics & Governance 2025, 13, 10331 (available Open Access here: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...

EU Data Sovereignty: An Autonomy–Interdependence Governance Gap? | Article | Politics and Governance

Helena Carrapico, Benjamin Farrand

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Check Professor's @colinmurray.bsky.social blog post co-authored with @anuragdeb.bsky.social @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social on this ABSURD 😡 decision: Policing Pride: R (on the application of Lindsey Smith) v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805. dflw.ie/policing-pri...

Policing Pride: R (on the application of Lindsey Smith) v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805 (Admin) - Doing Feminist Legal Work

Pride and the Police

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New from @anuragdeb.bsky.social, @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social and me on The Morrigan blog - The Smith judicial review decision into the participation of Northumbria Police in the 2024 Northern Pride is a jaw-dropping mess on expert evidence, standing and irrationality: dflw.ie/policing-pri...

Policing Pride: R (on the application of Lindsey Smith) v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805 (Admin) - Doing Feminist Legal Work

Pride and the Police

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One of our star ConGovers, Tanya Krupiy just published a blog post in the LSE blog. Check it out! Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy, ‘The UK’s Approach to Governing AI Risks Exacerbating Inequalities,’ LSE Inequalities Blog, 15 July 2025, blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities....

The UK’s governance of AI risks exacerbating inequalities

The UK Government has a mission “to create a more equal society”. But does it risk failing on this mission if it doesn't change its approach to governing AI?

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Check a fascinating new blog post from our star ConGover @ruthhoughton.bsky.social entitled “What Would the Founding Fathers Say? Digital Ghosts and Constituent Power”. digi-con.org/what-would-t...

What Would the Founding Fathers Say? Digital Ghosts and Constituent Power — The Digital Constitutionalist

The United States is not unfamiliar with the idea that a bunch of dead white men might inform the meaning and interpretation of the Constitution. Originalism is the very idea that constitutional meani...

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Check this incredible new article by our ConGover Sylvia de Mars: Sylvia de Mars, 'How I made academic writing work for me' (2025) 76 (RS) NILQ 78-87 (nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...)

Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly

This is the ninth contribution to NILQ's Reflections on Writing series.

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Call for papers! We're hosting a symposium exploring legal methods and methodologies in September and the call for abstracts is now open. We're excited that ‪@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social‬ & Prof Linda Mulcahy will be joining us as keynotes! How to submit and event details in the link

Methodologies Symposium 'Law is but let me explain it once more' - Newcastle Law School - Newcastle University

Exploring diverse, plural, interdisciplinary, critical, decolonial, anti-colonial and socio-legal methodologies alongside doctrinal and mainstream approaches.

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Sean Molloy is also presenting a paper on Childing IR in the context of peacebuilding in the upcoming British International Studies Association (BISA) 50th-anniversary conference- 18 to 20 of June in Belfast.

Sean Molloy, our dear ConGover, has also had this great article recently published (4/5): Molloy, S. (2025), ‘Living Apart Together: Child Participation in the Context of Peace Process Theory and Practice, Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Finally, Sean Molloy also published this interesting blog post too: (3/5) Molloy, S (2025). The Illusion of Inclusion: Child Protection in Peace Agreements, Peace News Network, peacenews.com/the-illusion...

The Illusion of Inclusion: Child Protection in Peace Agreements - Peace News Network

Dr. Sean Molloy examines whether the inclusion of child protection provisions in peace agreements is genuinely transformative.

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Another recent blog post by Sean Molloy that is well-worth a read (2/5): Molloy, S. (2025) Rewriting the Future: How Peace Agreements Can Break the Cycle of Child Soldiering, Peace News Network, thepeacetoday.com/2025/04/22/r...

Sean Molloy, our fellow ConGover, one of the stars of our School, had a very productive month (1/5) Check his blog posts: Molloy, S. (2025) Living Apart Together: Why Children Belong at the Heart of Peace Processes, PeaceRep, peacerep.org/2025/05/26/l...

Living Apart Together: Why Children Belong at the Heart of Peace Processes - PeaceRep

Dr Sean Molloy shares the thinking behind his new article, 'Living Apart Together: Child Participation in the Context of Peace Process Theory and Practice.'

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