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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted to announce a hybrid event to launchThe Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: ed Richard Bellamy and Jeff King

UCL 13 Oct 2025, 18:05 – 19:30, followed by a wine reception.

Event details and how to book an on line or in person place – are here

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UCL Faculty of Laws

UCL Laws is a global leader in legal education, driving excellence in research and thought leadership that shapes practice, policy, and society worldwide.

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · 11d

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Hybrid | The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory: Launch Event

This event is organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism.

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · 11d

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Book Launch for The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory

Organised by the UCL Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism

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Orlando Lazar @orlandolazar.bsky.social · Aug 27

I have a new paper out online in @crispp.bsky.social: I argue that a focus on domination can help us better understand a renewed politics of working time - a reduction in work, the right to disconnect, and challenging employer authority over free time.

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Taking it home with you: work, free time, and domination: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 0, No 0

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Aug 13

I discuss its themes - in some ways part of a new book project - with Alan Renwick at: uncoveringpolitics.com/episodes/sho...

Should Politicians Always Be Truthful? | UCL Uncovering Politics

This week we ask if politicians should always be truthful? It often feels like many politicians themselves think not. But what does a healthy democracy demand?

uncoveringpolitics.com

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Aug 13

New article now out and on open access - “Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation” is now published in Volume 27, Issue 3 of The British Journal of Politics and International Relations and is available at doi.org/10.1177/1369...

Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation - Richard Bellamy, Sandra Kröger, 2025

It is sometimes suggested that even democratic politicians need to dirty their hands in ways that render hypocrisy, lying and deception unavoidable and even jus...

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Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · Jul 28

Have read some of these papers and they were excellent @rbellamy.bsky.social

Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Jul 28

CRISPP 28.5 is now on line. A special Issue on Democratic Ethics and Voting edited by Annabelle Lever & Attila Mráz
– many articles open access – available at:

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · Jul 28

CRISPP 28.5 is now on line. A special Issue on Democratic Ethics and Voting edited by Annabelle Lever & Attila Mráz
– many articles open access – available at:

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

www.tandfonline.com

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Albert Weale @albertpweale.bsky.social · Jun 18

Pleased that my exchange on Paul Tucker's stimulating Global Discord in now available OA on @crispp.bsky.social
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and reply:
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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · May 31

Even the Guardian in my view fails to underline how worrying this is …. The BBC treats such news as if we should be rejoicing and heading for the beach. No wonder climate change isn't being taken seriously.

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Temperatures could hit 27C on Saturday as UK’s sunniest spring on record draws to end

Morning rain could affect Northern Ireland and Scotland but southern and eastern parts likely to remain dry

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · May 31

In defense of voting method publicity
Aylon Manor

Criminalising (cubes of) truth: animal advocacy, civil disobedience, and the politics of sight
Serrin Rutledge-Prior

Meaningful work, nonperfectionism, and reciprocity
Caleb Althorpe

Cancelling fiduciary excuses
Robert E. Goodin

Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · May 31

Data-owning democracy or digital socialism?
James Muldoon

The multidimensional recognition of religion
Simon Thompson & Tariq Modood

Do global justice theorists need to alter their normative focus to accommodate changing empirical circumstances?
Teppo Eskeline

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · May 31

Article
Data based radicalism? data usage and the problem of critical distance in contextual and empirical political theory
Nahshon Perez

Can business corporations be legally responsible for structural injustice? The social connection model in (legal) practice
Barbara Bziuk

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · May 31

The latest issue of CRISPP is now online:
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c... - Muldoon on digital socialism,Thompson and Modood on religious recognition, Goodin on excuses, Althorpe on Meaningful work, Eskelinen on global justice, Perez on Data based radicalism and more ....

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Volume 28, Issue 4 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · May 29

Engaging with the neon-machiavellian justification of lying and the Neo-Platonic notion of the 'noble' lie to argue for the need for political truthfulness

Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · May 29

An enjoyable discussion with @alanrenwick.bsky.social on the necessity for democratic politicians to be truthful - in some ways a taster for my next book project ...https://uncoveringpolitics.com/episodes/should-politicians-always-be-truthful

Should Politicians Always Be Truthful? | UCL Uncovering Politics

This week we ask if politicians should always be truthful? It often feels like many politicians themselves think not. But what does a healthy democracy demand?

uncoveringpolitics.com

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matteobonotti.bsky.social @matteobonotti.bsky.social · May 18

Great to see this symposium on my & Anne Barnhill's and Josh Milburn's recent monographs on food justice being published in @crispp.bsky.social! Many thanks to the guest editor, Tom Bailey, and to all the commentators!

Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · May 6

I'm thrilled to share that @crispp.bsky.social has started to publish a nine-article symposium on my Food, Justice, and Animals and @matteobonotti.bsky.social and Anne Barnhill's Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy.

First up: This is Tom Bailey's introduction to the symposium.

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Healthy eating policy and political philosophy and Food, justice, and animals: synopses and critical issues

This essay introduces a symposium on two books that engage in debates in both liberal political philosophy and food ethics, Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti’s Healthy Eating Policy and Political Ph...

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Josh Milburn @joshmilburn.bsky.social · May 6

I'm thrilled to share that @crispp.bsky.social has started to publish a nine-article symposium on my Food, Justice, and Animals and @matteobonotti.bsky.social and Anne Barnhill's Healthy Eating Policy and Political Philosophy.

First up: This is Tom Bailey's introduction to the symposium.

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Healthy eating policy and political philosophy and Food, justice, and animals: synopses and critical issues

This essay introduces a symposium on two books that engage in debates in both liberal political philosophy and food ethics, Anne Barnhill and Matteo Bonotti’s Healthy Eating Policy and Political Ph...

www.tandfonline.com

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · May 5

Labour has to change tack and stop aping Reform on immigration and public spending before it is too late. Not only is it morally wrong, but also the strategy of growing the economy will also fail to materialise given Trump light policies have major economic costs that undermine any such recovery.

Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · May 5

New post from me about the elections of the last week, where the 'peak populism' hypothesis stands, and what lessons the Labour Party should be drawing. 1/n

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Labour is Learning the Wrong Lessons

Centre-left incumbents are staying in power by aggressively pushing back on populists, not by aping them

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · May 5

On why aping Reform is not only bad politics but also bad economics

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · May 3

New post just out:

"Terminal Decline"

My review of a dramatic set of elections and what it means for all of the parties.

(£/free trial)

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Terminal Decline

Local Elections Review: 2025

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · May 4

In a week when Australia followed Canada in giving the neo-Trumpist parties an electoral drubbing, it was disappointing to say the least to see the Trump adjacent Reform do so well in the recent local elections and to win the Runcorn by-election.

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Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Apr 23

Great blog on free speech and social media www.medialaws.eu/the-evolutio...

The evolution of Incitement Online: from Brandenburg v. Ohio to Depiction of Zwarte Piet - MediaLaws

Unlike states, social media companies – indeed, our new governors – only have voluntary commitments to International Human Rights Law (IHRL). However, once IHRL becomes the common language of content ...

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · Apr 17

Great post graduate teaching opportunity at UCL

Richard Bellamy @rbellamy.bsky.social · Apr 16

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PGTA - Political Science (Foundations of Political Thought)

Political Science are looking for a PGTA for module Foundations of Political Thought (Term 1). Start date: 1 September 2025. Deadline to apply: 11.59pm on 25th April 2025.

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Research Group on Constitutional Studies, McGill University @rgcs-mcgill.bsky.social · Apr 8

New from Arash Abizadeh, in a symposium on the work of Joseph Carens (RGCS Lecture Feb 24) in CRISPP (ed. by Richard Bellamy, RGCS Lecture Nov 24).
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"The burdens of jurisdiction and the alleged right to exclude unwanted migrants"

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ABSTRACT
Joseph Carens is well known for his defence of a general human right to freedom of interstate migration. Michael Blake, by contrast, has argued that, precisely because of the existence of human rights, states have the presumptive right coercively to prevent migrants from entering their territorial jurisdiction; as such, there is no human right to migration. Blake argues that, because states have a moral obligation to protect and fulfil the human rights of all persons in their territory but not elsewhere, when migrants enter a state’s territory, they impose new obligations on it that it did not previously have. He argues, moreover, that because to impose obligations is to impose new burdens, we have a right to refuse to have new obligations imposed on us without our consent. I show that Blake’s argument misconstrues the logical structure of conditional human-rights obligations, and that, once properly construed, it becomes clear that immigrants do not impose new human-rights obligations on states in virtue of their entry.

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · Apr 3

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: Vol 28, No 3 (Special Issue) Relational Equality and Intergenerational Justice, edited by Devon Cass and Andre Santos Campos is now available on line – the Introduction on open access.

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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Relational Equality and Intergenerational Justice, edited by Devon Cass and Andre Santos Campos. Volume 28, Issue 3 of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

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Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy @crispp.bsky.social · Mar 27

Finally available on line (and in hard copy from next month) Essential reading - about a world we are in danger of losing - for the times we live in ... www.cambridge.org/core/books/t...

The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory

Cambridge Core - Political Theory - The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory

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