Zonglin Lyu: Marking Their Own Homework, After the Deadline: Earned Settlement and the Timing of an Impact Assessment

“Impact Assessments should be published when decisions are made.” That is the recorded position of the Minister for Migration and Citizenship, given to a Lords committee this spring (para 313). It …

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Crash Krylova – Trans people in prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59

Introduction On 19 June 2026, the Outer House of the Court of Session handed down judgment in the case of For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59 (“For Women Scotland 3”). This piece…

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Bhavya Johari – The Political Constitution’s Broken Promise: Arms, Sanctions and Accountability after Al-Haq

In September 2024, the Government suspended around thirty arms export licences to Israel, having found a clear risk that United Kingdom equipment might be used to commit serious violations of inter…

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Hleb Buziuk: Independent by Assertion: The Immigration and Asylum Bill and the Re-Departmentalisation of Adjudication

On 13 July 2026, the Immigration and Asylum Bill is scheduled to receive its second reading in the House of Commons. Public attention has fixed on Part 2 and its Article 8 clauses. This post is abo…

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Aaditya Bajpai: Not a Ministry of Truth: The State’s Positive Duty to Prevent Algorithmically Amplified Misinformation from Triggering Rights-Harming Violence

Introduction “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. This line is credited to Mark Twain, but the thought is older. Jonathan Swift complained three cent…

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Hleb Buziuk: Downward Self-Correction: The AGNI Reference and the Mirror Principle in Reverse

The literature on section 2 of the Human Rights Act 1998 has largely been preoccupied with a single direction of travel: how far domestic courts may go beyond the Strasbourg case law, or against it…

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Dimitrios Kivotidis: Economic Analysis of the British Constitution: Preliminary Thoughts

This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here. Whether one subscribes to the notion of the ‘ancient constitution’ or …

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Eleana Kasoulide: The Internal Administrative Law of Designing Digital Public Services

Digitalisation has become an inseparable aspect of delivering public services, inspiring conversations around the impacts of digitalisation on citizens and of what it means for states to transition…

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Alistair Mills: The Interpretation of Policy and the Proscription of Palestine Action

As is well known, the group “Palestine Action” has been subject to proscription by the Home Secretary under the Terrorism Act 2000. The Court of Appeal has recently handed down judgment in litigati…

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Francesca Jackson: Princesses, the Privy Purse, and Parliament: Constitutional Issues Raised by the Royal Residences Report

Following the release of the Report by the National Audit Office (‘NAO’) (‘the Report’) on royal residences, it has emerged that King Charles pays the rent on properties occupied by his nieces, Pri…

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Andrew Woodhouse: Power Failure – Electricity Nationalisation and The Erosion of the Public Corporation’s “Three Freedoms” (1947-1967)

This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here. In 1966, as England won their last men’s football World Cup, the …

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Paul F Scott: Economic Security and the NSIA 2021

This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here. Introduction Section 12 of the Justice and Security Act 2013, the…

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Craig Wells: The Discipline of Reasons: Liberty, Vulnerability and Arbitrary Power in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16

It is seldom that the much-mythologised Magna Carta is actually engaged. Yet in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16 (the Deprivation of Liberty Reference) the Su…

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Sara Closs-Davies, Dominic de Cogan and Amy Lawton: Devolving Power, Dividing Outcomes – The Social Consequences of UK Fiscal Devolution

This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here. Fiscal devolution in the United Kingdom (UK) is often examined through…

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Adrian Kreutz: Dualism, Constitutional Conservatism, and Politically Sensitive Judicial Review

1. Introduction Recent public law cases concerning dualism––the operative divide between international and domestic jurisprudence––have prompted renewed debate about the constitutional role of judi…

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Conor McCormick: Monitoring the Judiciary

Judges primarily decide cases, but they also make strategic decisions aimed at maintaining the constitutional authority of the judiciary as a whole. Doctrines, bundling, timing, and public engageme…

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Adam Tomkins: Money and the Making of the British Constitution

This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here. When constitutional lawyers recall the Revolution of 1688 we tend to b…

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Yossi Nehushtan and Faye Thomas: Retrospective Rule Making, the Rule of Law, and UK Immigration Policy

In this post we differentiate between two types of retrospective rule making (RRM): RRM in the strong sense and RRM in the weak sense. We then argue that both types of RRM may violate the rule of l…

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Nikos Skoutaris: Fault Lines: The UK’s Asymmetric Constitution and the Problem of Self-Determination After May 2026

For the first time in the history of devolution, nationalist or independence-oriented parties lead all three devolved nations simultaneously: Sinn Féin in Northern Ireland, Plaid Cymru in Wales, an…

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Dane Luo: Andy Burnham and the Constitution – The Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister

After disastrous local government election results for the Labour Party, speculation has been rife about an internal leadership challenge to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. On Thursday 14 May 2026, th…

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Call for Papers – Extended Deadline: UKCLA Early Career Workshop in Constitutional Law and Theory

UKCLA Early Career Workshop in Constitutional Law and Theory – University of Bristol – 10 June 2026 *Final call for papers – deadline extended to Sunday 24th May 2026* Bristol Universit…

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Thomas Poole and Elena De Nictolis: The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026

After months of parliamentary debate, the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act 2026 (‘English Devolution Act’) received Royal Assent on 29 April 2026. The Act has important implications…

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Colin Murray: Hollowing out Northern Ireland’s Post-Brexit Rights Protections in Re Dillon [2026] UKSC 15

The Good and Faithful Servants One of the foundational assertions of judicial approaches to legislation in the UK comes from Willes J in Lee v Bude and Torrington Railway Co: We sit here as servant…

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Gareth Evans: The Senedd Election: What are the next steps for government formation in Wales?

On 7 May 2026, the people of Wales went to the polls to elect the seventh Senedd Cymru. For a number of reasons, this was always destined to be a change election in Wales: using a new voting system…

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Lewis Graham: Judicial Ideology and Supreme Court Appointments

Appointing Supreme Court Justices When a vacancy arises on the UK Supreme Court (UKSC), how is it filled? And what considerations are taken into account when deciding on which qualified candidate t…

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Simon Karsunke: What comes next? The way forward on UK House of Lords reform

On 18 March 2026 the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill became the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Act 2026. Following one final vote on the evening of the 10th of March 2026 in the House of …

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Jonathan Collinson: A New Independent Appeals Body for Immigration and Asylum: Accountability, Transparency, and Oversight

This post examines questions of accountability, transparency and oversight in the context of the UK government’s proposal for a new Independent Appeals Body for immigration and asylum decisions, re…

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Call for Papers: UKCLA Early Career Workshop in Constitutional Law and Theory, University of Bristol

Bristol University’s Centre for European and Public Law (CEPL), and Liverpool University’s Public Law Unit are pleased to announce a one-day workshop for PhD candidates and early-career researchers…

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Antoinette Nestor: “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”: Real-World Consequences and Environmental Assessment after Finch

Environmental Impact Assessments in the UK increasingly resemble We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. In Michael Rosen’s story, every obstacle presents the same catch phrase: “We can’t go over it. We can’t …

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Adam Tomkins: On ABJ: Proscribed Organisations, Proportionality, and Freedom of Speech

In R v ABJ [2026] UKSC 8 a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that the offence of expressing support for a proscribed organisation, as defined in the Terrorism Act 2000, is not a disproportionate interf…

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