📢 Open for Booking ECHR and Venice Commission: Guarding Human Rights and the Rule of Law, and Facilitating Constitutional Resilience
📍BIICL, London | 🗓 6–7 November 2025
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Marking 75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights (#ECHR) and 35 years of the #VeniceCommission

In her new article for Constitutional Studies, Silvia Suteu analyzes varied constitutional diagnoses and solutions for #democraticbacksliding in #Europe, asserting the centrality of #gender.

Read more at tinyurl.com/2sevjkmb. Read our full issue on the State of the Field at tinyurl.com/bdd99zh8!

England's 'devolution revolution': prospects and challenges

We hosted a timely event yesterday (just before the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill was published) all about English devolution, with Bella Sankey, Roger Gough and @ariannagiovannini.bsky.social.

Watch it 👇

Meg Russell is on the latest episode of Parliament Matters discussing the hereditary peers bill and our new opinion polling.

She suggests that many MPs would actually support reducing the size of the House of Lords.

Listen 👉 pod.fo/e/2f59c4.

See our polling 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/constitution....

Really looking forward to this 👇 #JurisprudenSky #ConstitutionalTheory #LegalPhilosophy

My blog post was just published on the ECHR Blog!
I analyse Pisanski v. Croatia and the protection of lawyers’ freedom of expression- and explore its broader implications for the execution of ECtHR judgments.
Read the full post here⬇️

www.echrblog.com/2025/04/prot...

#lawyersrights

So far, so good! The Committee of Ministers‘s interim decision on the implementation of the KlimaSeniorinnen judgment is out. search.coe.int/cm?i=0900001...

What problems are there with the legislative process? Have they got worse? And what can be done to fix them?

Join Meg Russell, David Natzler and @danielgover.bsky.social to discuss just this on 24 February.

Sign up for this free, online event 👇

Join us next week in Maastricht or online.

Thank you @euconst.bsky.social for hosting my piece on the Lin judgment! 🇪🇺 This case note is part of my broader research on time and law, and it address an interesting ECJ case that specifies the Taricco case-law. I hope
You enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing and discussing it!

Last year, I had the privilege of attending the @icon-s.bsky.social Winter/Summer School organised by Prof Rosalind Dixon. It’s not just about research but also an incredible way for junior scholars to gain insights into academia in a supportive environment. Highly recommend applying!🍀🐨🦘💡🖌️

Thank you so much!

Could you add me please?

Great to see this Special Issue of King’s Law Journal on The Collaborative Constitution with brilliant contributions by Profs @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social, Stephen Gardbaum, Gavin Phillipson, Grégoire Webber & Lord Sales, UKSC.

What an honour.

www.tandfonline.com/journals/rkl...

You can now follow the Hansard Society's starter pack below.

The pack includes academics, researchers, and practitioners with insights about parliaments and legislatures and the issues we discuss each week on our Parliament Matters Podcast.

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By popular demand (additions very welcome!):
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I really liked the idea of the starter pack! Is there one for constitutional law and theory here? If you know, please let me know! 🐢🖌️☀️

Thank you! ✨

Can I please be added?

Want to know how to get published in an international journal or how peer-review works? The 3rd Edition of the ICON•S Online Writing School aims to answer these questions & more! Registration is now open: icon-society-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Gargarella on Kavanagh's 'The Collaborative Constitution' balkin.blogspot.com/2024/02/on-i...