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Podcast Episode · Law and Disorder · 05/10/2024 · 44m

New out from me in the NILQ on the many inadequacies of indirect rule in periods when the NI Assembly has collapsed. Let's not go back to this... Part of a fab collection assembled by @tobiaslock.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.53386/nil...

The Commons Library 🟢⚪️ has revamped its paper on the UK Supreme Court, which turns 15 this month. Special thanks to the UKSC team for helping us compile some really nerdy new data on the use of senior territorial judges in UKSC/JCPC cases! More ⤵️ commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

To coincide with the publication of Leading Works in Public Law, @patrickcobrien.bsky.social and me thought we’d tweet about some of the chapters. We wanted to focus on some which got us thinking about how we understand public law. 1/9

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Yay! Edited with @patrickcobrien.bsky.social; contributors incl Lord Sales, @aileenmcharg.bsky.social, Caroline Morris, @conormccormick.bsky.social, @chrismccork.bsky.social, Conor Gearty, Hélène Tyrell, Conall Mallory, Mara Malagodi, Meghan Campbell, Paul Daly, @efieldingd.bsky.social, Sionaidh DG

Lord Sales discusses Daintith and Page's book, which IMO should be read by *everyone* (if not the 1st ed, the new sequel). Informed by his history as Treasury Devil, Sales reminds us that the Executive is an actor in its own right within the constitution, with its own abiding concerns. 2/9

@aileenmcharg.bsky.social asks us to take constitutional silence seriously. Silence is a legitimate tool of statecraft— ‘an exercise in practical reason in governing societies riven with conflicts of interests and values’. 3/9

@chrismccork.bsky.social ’s chapter is a love letter … to devolution—IMO *the* most vibrant area—of UK public law today. Chris wants us to move away from strict legalities and jurisdiction-specific nature of much devo literature…. 5/9

@conormccormick.bsky.social navigates between the Scylla of lazy Dicey-hatred and the Charybdis of unthinking Dicey-love, and asks us to revisit Dicey with fresh and more discerning eyes. Hard sell Conor… 7/9

@efieldingd.bsky.social ’s concluding chapter sums up the plight of UK public law (how to escape Dicey?) but also takes us, the editors, to task for not thinking more about the implication of empire on UK public law. 8/9

QUB Human Rights Centre co-hosts ‘Human Rights and Northern Ireland’ workshop with the Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge, in conjunction with the European Human Rights Law Review www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...