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Zonglin Lyu: Marking Their Own Homework, After the Deadline: Earned Settlement and the Timing of an Impact Assessment ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/17/z...

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 …ukconstitutionallaw.org

Crash Krylova – Trans people in prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/16/c...

Crash Krylova – Trans people in prison: For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2026] CSOH 59Introduction 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Bhavya Johari – The Political Constitution’s Broken Promise: Arms, Sanctions and Accountability after Al-Haq ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/15/b...

Bhavya Johari – The Political Constitution’s Broken Promise: Arms, Sanctions and Accountability after Al-HaqIn 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Hleb Buziuk: Independent by Assertion: The Immigration and Asylum Bill and the Re-Departmentalisation of Adjudication ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/13/h...

Hleb Buziuk: Independent by Assertion: The Immigration and Asylum Bill and the Re-Departmentalisation of AdjudicationOn 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Aaditya Bajpai: Not a Ministry of Truth: The State’s Positive Duty to Prevent Algorithmically Amplified Misinformation from Triggering Rights-Harming Violence ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/07/02/a...

Aaditya Bajpai: Not a Ministry of Truth: The State’s Positive Duty to Prevent Algorithmically Amplified Misinformation from Triggering Rights-Harming ViolenceIntroduction “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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Hleb Buziuk: Downward Self-Correction: The AGNI Reference and the Mirror Principle in Reverse ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/30/h...

Hleb Buziuk: Downward Self-Correction: The AGNI Reference and the Mirror Principle in ReverseThe 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Dimitrios Kivotidis: Economic Analysis of the British Constitution: Preliminary Thoughts ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/29/d...

Dimitrios Kivotidis: Economic Analysis of the British Constitution: Preliminary ThoughtsThis 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 …ukconstitutionallaw.org

Eleana Kasoulide: The Internal Administrative Law of Designing Digital Public Services ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/24/e...

Eleana Kasoulide: The Internal Administrative Law of Designing Digital Public ServicesDigitalisation 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Alistair Mills: The Interpretation of Policy and the Proscription of Palestine Action ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/23/a...

Alistair Mills: The Interpretation of Policy and the Proscription of Palestine ActionAs 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Francesca Jackson: Princesses, the Privy Purse, and Parliament: Constitutional Issues Raised by the Royal Residences Report ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/22/f...

Francesca Jackson: Princesses, the Privy Purse, and Parliament: Constitutional Issues Raised by the Royal Residences ReportFollowing 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Andrew Woodhouse: Power Failure – Electricity Nationalisation and The Erosion of the Public Corporation’s “Three Freedoms” (1947-1967) ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/18/a...

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 …ukconstitutionallaw.org

Paul F Scott: Economic Security and the NSIA 2021 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/16/p...

Paul F Scott: Economic Security and the NSIA 2021This 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Craig Wells: The Discipline of Reasons: Liberty, Vulnerability and Arbitrary Power in A Reference by the Attorney General for Northern Ireland [2026] UKSC 16 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/15/c...

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

Sara Closs-Davies, Dominic de Cogan and Amy Lawton: Devolving Power, Dividing Outcomes – The Social Consequences of UK Fiscal Devolution ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/10/s...

Sara Closs-Davies, Dominic de Cogan and Amy Lawton: Devolving Power, Dividing Outcomes – The Social Consequences of UK Fiscal DevolutionThis 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Adrian Kreutz: Dualism, Constitutional Conservatism, and Politically Sensitive Judicial Review ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/09/a...

Adrian Kreutz: Dualism, Constitutional Conservatism, and Politically Sensitive Judicial Review1. 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Conor McCormick: Monitoring the Judiciary ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/08/c...

Conor McCormick: Monitoring the JudiciaryJudges 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Adam Tomkins: Money and the Making of the British Constitution ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/04/a...

Adam Tomkins: Money and the Making of the British ConstitutionThis 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Yossi Nehushtan and Faye Thomas: Retrospective Rule Making, the Rule of Law, and UK Immigration Policy ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/27/y...

Yossi Nehushtan and Faye Thomas: Retrospective Rule Making, the Rule of Law, and UK Immigration PolicyIn 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org

Nikos Skoutaris: Fault Lines: The UK’s Asymmetric Constitution and the Problem of Self-Determination After May 2026 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/21/n...

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

Dane Luo: Andy Burnham and the Constitution – The Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime Minister ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/05/20/d...

Dane Luo: Andy Burnham and the Constitution – The Conventions on the Appointment of the Prime MinisterAfter 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…ukconstitutionallaw.org