Photo of a set of headphones and a rainbow fidget toy in a school classroom

📢 A new report led by Prof @robertthomas223.bsky.social @uomlaw.bsky.social and funded by the @nuffieldfoundation.org finds councils delivering SEND support are being “set up to fail”.

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1/2 Here’s a 1 min trailer for Advanced Issues in Public Law, a 2nd yr module I’m teaching late 2026 at @durham.ac.uk with @aileenmcharg.bsky.social and @rogermasterman.bsky.social.

I just used iMovie. No AI.

I&S = individual and the state; UK Con = UK constitutional law—both 1st yr modules.

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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I had entirely forgotten that I bought this - for 99p.

www.nipso.org.uk/our-findings... chapter 6

We were delighted to host Professor Krisztina Rozsnyai recently in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series for a fascinating talk entitled "Saving Hungarian Courts from the European Level: Mission Impossible?"

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Law of Obligations (with a special emphasis on the Law of Torts) (Teaching and Research):Oxford Road

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How children with special educational needs are being failed in England – video From anxious children unable to cope with school to those with more complex, profound disabilities, support for Send children in England is broken. The Guardian meets parents and children to get a sen...

www.theguardian.com/education/vi...

🎉 Happy Birthday to #WilliamShakespeare! 🎭

We're celebrating with a #BookGiveaway 📚

🔁 Repost for a chance to win a copy of Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by @freeburian.bsky.social!

You’ve got until midnight, 23/04/25

Winner picked at random + revealed tomorrow! 💫

Fair is Fair The requirements of due process are often minimal, but still important.

New post by @markpmancini.bsky.social on the importance of procedure and legal orderliness. doubleaspect.blog/2025/04/22/f...

I read that quote and thought to myself "who wrote that? It seems familiar".

20 years of the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme #AFCS

A blog post on my reflections:
- 127,414 claims
- 1/3 rejected
- 67% of most seriously harmed get much lower award than due
- 99.% of cases at appeal increased or maintained (only 55 / 11,035 reduced)

veteranlawproject.org.uk/blog/post31

Celebrate World IP Day with @uniofmanchester.bsky.social exclusive masterclass on intellectual property in tech.

Join our expert panel to explore global IP challenges, geopolitics, AI-driven patents, and startup protection strategies. Don't miss out — register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

If only there were other universities in other parts of the country with lots of lab space and/or space for building lab space where housing costs were lower.

1/7 Can the executive ‘safeguard’ the constitution? The UK Constitution Committee says yes, but I worry. The plural UK executive means this is unlikely. And if we want internal executive checks like the civil service to work, we need to strengthen them now. Trump 2.0 is a warning.

The April 2025 issue of Public Law is now avail. on
Westlaw feat. a themed analysis section - Race and Public Law - compiled by @vidyakumar.bsky.social. Papers are by Vidya, on "Race and the UK Constitution"; Shreya Atrey "A Common Law principle of racial equality?"; Tom Frost ...

@aileenmcharg.bsky.social are presenting a very early draft of our BA/Leverhulme funded interview-based research on the Sewel convention tomorrow at UCL. Rick Rawlings and Akash Paun will respond to the paper and ask why my footnotes are colour coded.

Details here: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Strathclyde Law School is advertising for a readership in public law. Details here:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI746/r...

Feel free to contact me if you have any queries about this post.

...Roger Masterman, David Mead, Colin Murray, Charlotte O'Brien, Elizabeth O'Loughlin, Adam Perry, James Robottom, Jens Scherpe, Saba Shakil, Findlay Stark, Shona Wilson Stark, Gabriel Tan, Joe Tomlinson, Robert Thomas, Hélène Tyrrell, Sam Willis and Alison Young. [2/2]

In the PUBLIC LAW volume we have contributions from Ed Bates, Joanna Bell, Nicole Busby, Kenny Chng, Paul Craig, Anurag Deb, Brice Dickson, Hasan Dindjer, Mark Elliott, Eleni Frantziou, Tom Frost, Ariella Gordon, Daniella Lock, Kacper Majewski, Conall Mallory, Lee Marsons, Stevie Martin... [1/2]

Jenny Russell and I are proud to present PUBLIC LAW AND THE UK SUPREME COURT and PRIVATE LAW AND THE UK SUPREME COURT, twin volumes of commentary on the jurisprudence of the UKSC's first fifteen years. All going well, it should be out this winter. Thanks to all contributors!

1/17 the ‘youth’ of spads 🧵 Robert Hazell at @conunitucl.bsky.social and I wrote a book on spads over a decade ago. We looked at about 600+ spads (1979-2013).
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Upcoming conference on the impeachment of Warren Hastings.

3-4 July 2025. A collaboration between the University of Worcester and @histparl.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social.

2 days of fantastic speakers. You can book here:
www.worcester.ac.uk/about/academ...

Event: Public Law Lecture 2025 Professor Alison Young: ‘Parliament is not sovereign – and it’s a good thing too’ 19th March 2025, 5pm-7pm, University of Essex (in person and online) This exciting event, sponsored by …

Details of this year's Public Law Lecture, to be delivered by Prof Alison Young, next Wednesday (online and in person).

ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/03/14/e...

We've worked with the Law Society(NI), litigants in person & other stakeholders to develop a Charter to help manage what can be a difficult relationship between litigants in person and solicitors on the 'other side' of the case. Details of the Charter launch below - please register to attend ⬇️

Dr Shiling Xiao (Manchester) presented a fascinating paper on Chinese constitutional review in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series on Wednesday

Is blockchain the key to the future of commercial arbitration?

Join Dr Joseph Lee and Dr Federico Ast on 18 March at 12:00 GMT to gain insights into the revolutionary role of blockchain and smart contracts in commercial arbitration.

Register today: zoom.us/webinar/regi...