School of Law

2025–26

• 20 May 2026 — David Mead (UEA)
  Understanding the Contraction in Civic Space – Why is it now harder to take to the Streets and Protest?
• 18 March 2026 — Colin Murray (Newcastle)
  After Safeguarding the Union: The Ongoing Travails of the Windsor Framework
• 4 February 2026 — Gavin Phillipson (Bristol)
  Constitutional Fracture: Brexit and the Fault-Lines of the British Constitution
• 28 November 2025 — Leah Trueblood (Surrey)
  The Salience of Scarcity in Public Law
• 19 November 2025 — David Kenny (Trinity College Dublin)
  Ireland, Westminster, and Political Constitutionalism

2024–25

• 2 May 2025 — Aileen McHarg (Durham) & Chris McCorkindale (Strathclyde)
  Legislative Consent after Brexit
• 12 February 2025 — Nick O'Brien (Tribunal Judge)
  Post-liberalism and Administrative Justice
• 3 December 2024 — Aileen Kavanagh (Trinity College Dublin)
  The Collaborative Constitution
• 21 November 2024 — Ewan Smith (UCL)
  Devolution after Empire

2023–24

• 8 July 2024 — Jelena Gligorijevic (Australian National University)
  Parliamentary Privilege: Right, Duty, or Power?
• 14 May 2024 — Adam Tucker (Liverpool)
  Ouster Clauses, Administrative Law Doctrine and Parliamentary Sovereignty
• 2 May 2024 — Bojan Bugaric (Sheffield)
  Populist Constitutionalism between Democracy and Authoritarianism
• 18 April 2024 — Christopher McCrudden (Queen’s University Belfast)
  The Budget and Equality: What role for the Public Sector Equality Duty?
• 1 December 2023 — Alex Stone‑Sweet (Hong Kong and Yale)
  The Law and Politics of the “General Principles of Law”
• 29 November 2023 — Veronika Fikfak & Michal Ovadek (UCL)
  Judicial Discretion and Immigration Appeals
• 11 October 2023 — Joe Tomlinson (York)
  Procedural Legitimacy and the Digital Welfare State

2022–23

• 19 January 2023 — Alexander Kloth (Free University of Berlin)
  The New Horizontal Effect: Fundamental Rights in the Age of Digital Surveillance
• 17 January 2023 — Robert Craig (Bristol)
  Royal Prerogative and the Common Law

• 16 April 2024 — The Online Safety Act 2023
  (Inter‑disciplinary roundtable featuring seven speakers)
• 6 February 2024 — Julian Scholtes, The Abuse of Constitutional Identity in the European Union
  (Speakers from Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow)
• 26 January 2024 — Michael Foran, Equality Before the Law
  (Speakers from Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford, Surrey)

• March 2026 (tbc) — Alain Zysset
  It’s Proportionality, Stupid! Authoritarian Norm Repurposing and Human Rights Adjudication in Europe and the Americas
• 3 March 2026 — Julian Scholtes
  Foundationalism without Foundations? Questioning EU Constitutional Identity

• March 2027 (date tbc) — Joanna Bell (Oxford)
  Annual Public Law Lecture
• 16–17 April 2026 — Economic Aspects of the Constitution
  (Twelve speakers; organised by Dr Paul Scott; with SLS)
• 14 May 2025 — The Public Law Scholarship of Professor Tarun Khaitan (LSE)
  (Speakers from Edinburgh, Glasgow, LSE; supported by UKCLA)