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Dr Michael Lane

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Lecturer in Law, University of Worcester • SLS Public Law Section Co-Convenor • empirical legal research, mostly international human rights, United Nations, Universal Periodic Review, UK constitutional law • views are mine

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Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Feb 17

A gentle reminder to colleagues that our free SLS Public Law ECR/PGR workshop takes place next Wednesday over MS Teams. We have a great selection of papers and a 'publishers panel'. Sign up here forms.office.com/e/FHcctGArpA.

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Dr Alice Storey @dralicestorey.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sign our Joint Statement to call on the USA to engage with its upcoming UN Universal Periodic Review, which reviews all 193 UN Member States’ human rights record ⬇️

docs.google.com/document/u/0...

Joint Statement: Concerns Over USA's Engagement with the UN UPR

CONCERNS OVER USA’S ENGAGEMENT WITH THE UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW Joint Statement of the UPR Project at BCU and UPR Academic Network regarding the United States of America’s Fourth Cycle Universal ...

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Jessie Blackbourn @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks to @publiclaw.bsky.social for publishing my article on decision making under the Prevent and Channel duties. So long in the writing that the Prevent Duty guidance and definition of extremism were updated and a review of Prevent was published, which didn't slow things down further at all.

Public Law @publiclaw.bsky.social · Jun 19

... @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social (on Administrative Justice and the Prevent and Channel Duties); Aisling Ryan (on the animators of administrative law); and @doubleaspect.blog (on judicial deference to administrative limitations on rights).

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · Jun 19

Really important ECtHR decision this morning declaring the Dalton case inadmissible. This is a really important case on human rights and the legacy of the NI conflict:

hudoc.echr.coe.int#{%22itemid%2...

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Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Jun 13

I attended the Committee in May 2023 during my PhD, but this session will be broadcast live (which is midly terrifying..). The UN system needs buy-in from domestic stakeholders, so it's really exciting to see our work pay off with Parliament more regularly (& publicly) engaging with the UPR.

Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Jun 13

Later this month, I'll be giving evidence for the Joint Committee on Human Rights in Parliament on the United Nations Universal Periodic Review (UPR) with @dralicestorey.bsky.social and @jonyorke.bsky.social.

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to [email protected] by 7 July.

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Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Jun 12

If this thread is anything to go by, it's been a disaster for Falkner & EHRC.

Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · Jun 11

I’m watching parliament’s women and equalities committee grill Baroness Falkner and the EHRC so you don’t have to, follow along with this thread for a summary of what’s said

Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Jun 10

Calling all colleagues working on the UN international human rights mechanisms, if you've any open access materials that might be relevant, do share!

Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · Jun 10

At last I am back to writing our open textbook on IHRL. Today it's UN treaty body reporting system. Special thanks to @michael-lane.bsky.social for sharing some great open source resources with me. If you have any open source IHRL resources to share please add them to docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Jun 9

I hope, as R2, you rejected a perfectly good manuscript and had a good time telling the author that they should have written a different paper.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · Jun 6

The @ec.europa.eu fully supports the ICC and its officials.

The ICC holds perpetrators of the world’s gravest crimes to account and gives victims a voice.

It must be free to act without pressure.

We will always stand for global justice and the respect of international law.

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Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · Jun 3

Today, #ICC appeal chamber judges will decide whether the Confirmation of Charges hearing for Joseph #Kony - leader of the #LRA charged with #warcrimes and #crimesagainsthumanity in #Uganda - can go ahead in his absence.

Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · May 29

#ICC: Joseph #Kony’s defence team filed an appeal against the decision to conduct a “confirmation of charges” hearing in his absence.

The decision on that appeal will be announced next Tuesday, 3 June, at 10:30 local time in #TheHague

www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

Lucy Gaynor @lucyjgaynor.bsky.social · Feb 10

How are [ #ICC] Judges meant to decide whether an in absentia proceeding should be held against... #Kony, but not... #Putin or... #Netanyahu?

Appeal against CoC hearings in absentia accuses the OTP, in an age of "unexecuted arrest warrants", of holding "mini-trials"

www.icc-cpi.int/sites/defaul...

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Chris Monaghan @chrisjmonaghan.bsky.social · May 24

Very excited to have edited this volume in @sandbergrlaw.bsky.social’s Leading Works series.

Leading Works in the History of the Constitution will be published in August.

The book launch is on 26 September, with Lady Hale delivering the keynote.

www.routledge.com/Leading-Work...

Leading Works in the History of the Constitution

This collection brings together academic analysis of leading contemporary accounts of the British Constitution with key constitutional documents and sources, while also offering analysis of the leadin...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 22

High court judge blocks UK from concluding Chagos Islands deal

Government had been due to give green light to deal handing sovereignty of islands to Mauritius A high court judge has blocked the UK government from concluding its deal to hand over the Chagos Islands with an injunction granted in the early hours of Thursday. The agreement to hand sovereignty over the Chagos islands to Mauritius was due to be given the green light by ministers on Thursday. Continue reading...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · May 20

My colleague @mgerver.bsky.social has created this open letter to Keir Starmer opposing the measures announced in last week's Immigration White Paper, on economic, political and moral grounds.

Open to all academics/researchers to sign.

molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html

Petition

An Open Letter to Keir Starmer We, the undersigned, strongly advise against the proposed changes to the UK immigration system of May 12, 2025, and your associated rhetoric. We are UK-based academics.....

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · May 9

Flagging this open letter, by lawyers (academic and practicing) expressing grave concerns with the reasoning in the UKSC's FWS judgment, the terms of subsequent EHRC interim statement and impact on trans people. Open for signature by UK based lawyers until 4pm today:

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A Law Letter on FWS v Scottish Ministers

A coalition of legal academics have drafted a letter setting out our support for trans rights and our concerns about the FWS v Scottish Ministers UKSC ruling. We are opening it up for signature to ev...

docs.google.com

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Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · May 2

Croatia claiming the entire Adriatic, perhaps?

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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Apr 28

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS EXTENDED!

The deadline for abstracts for our one day workshop on Re-Imagning Counter-terrorism Law has been extended to this Friday, 2nd May.

The workshop will take place in Birmingham on 12th June with Prof Conor Gearty as the keynote speaker.

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Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Apr 25

That sounds really interesting. Might be worth looking at Philip Alston's recent OA text: humanrightstextbook.org/digital-book.

Beyond that, on the UPR specifically, if you e-mail me I can send you a long list of OA articles. My OA book on the UPR will also be out next year.

UPR Academic Network

Visit the post for more.

upracademicnetwork.wordpress.com

Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Apr 25

There's lots of really interesting work on the HRC's politicisation and how it has addressed (or rather not) the selectivity of its predecessor. You may have already read, but in case you haven't:

doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngx027

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

repository.mdx.ac.uk/item/8484z

New challenges for the UN Human Rights Machinery: what future for the UN Treaty Body System and the Human Rights Council Procedures? : Middlesex University Research Repository

repository.mdx.ac.uk

Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social · Apr 19

Fred Cowell and I were kindly asked by the Law Society to write a short blog on our recent work on the United Nations UPR and its applicability in E&W courts. You can read it here www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/blogs...

Human rights in English and Welsh courts – the Universal Periodic Review | The Law Society

The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a human rights process in which every country has now had its human rights record reviewed three times since 2008. Discover how UPR was used in the Rwanda case a...

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Rebecca McKee @rebeccamckee.bsky.social · Apr 7

Join us for the launch of the 2nd ed of Exploring Parliament, a new book bridging academic insights and real life experience to bring parliament to life for readers!

Register via the link below to watch the event online - 15 May 5.30pm
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/online...

Book launch: ‘Exploring Parliament’ | Institute for Government

An expert panel explore how Parliament works, who works there, and how this institution keeps evolving.

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk

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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Apr 4

Calls for Papers: In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights / UKCLA ECR workshop deadline extended ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/04/04/c...

Calls for Papers: In the Name of National Security – The Fragility of Human Rights / UKCLA ECR workshop deadline extended

Call for Papers: In the Name of National Security: The Fragility of Human Rights The Centre for Public Law at the University of Cambridge and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will co-host a workshop …

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Martins Paparinskis @mpaparinskis.bsky.social · Apr 2

Call for applications: International Law Commission assistants roster

Secretariat launches call for qualified individuals to be included in roster of potential research assistants for Special Rapporteurs, Study/Working Group Chairs

Deadline: 15 April

🔗 legal.un.org/docs/?path=....

Official document of the United Nations

legal.un.org

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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Apr 1

Josie Welsh: “[No audible response]” is not how the Lady Chief Justice leads her judiciary ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/04/01/j...

Josie Welsh: “[No audible response]” is not how the Lady Chief Justice leads her judiciary

In an earlier blog post, I noted that we would be waiting with interest to see how the (then newly appointed) Lady Chief Justice of England and Wales (LCJ), Baroness Carr, would use her power, whet…

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Hart Publishing @hartpublishing.bsky.social · Apr 1

Have you signed up for this Thursday’s Hart @ Home session on revising your PhD? To find out more, visit buff.ly/RzW9icd

#LegalPublishing