Public Law for Everyone
Professor Mark Elliott
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Human Rights Act
The legal and constitutional implications of the asylum white paper: Some initial thoughts
November 17, 2025
Misplaced optimism? Lord Briggs on the common law’s capacity to protect human rights in the event of ECHR withdrawal
November 14, 2025
The ‘othering’ of human rights and the agenda underlying calls for ECHR withdrawal
November 7, 2025
The developing domestic debate about the ECHR: Navigating two extremes
July 9, 2025
The Conservative leadership election and withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights
October 11, 2024
1,000 words: The Bill of Rights
June 23, 2022
The UK’s (new) Bill of Rights
June 22, 2022
The common law and the European Convention on Human Rights: Do we need both?
February 11, 2022
Do we need a British Bill of Rights?
February 2, 2022
Undermining the rule of law? A comment on the Justice Secretary’s Sunday Telegraph interview
October 17, 2021
Devolution in the Supreme Court: Legislative supremacy, Parliament’s ‘unqualified’ power, and ‘modifying’ the Scotland Act
October 15, 2021
Constitutional Law: The Big Picture III — Human Rights
June 7, 2021
Oxford and Cambridge Independent Human Rights Act Review event
June 6, 2021
Oxford/Cambridge Independent Human Rights Act Review Event
May 26, 2021
The UK constitution under pressure: A lost age of civility?
November 23, 2020
Human Rights Post-Brexit: The Need for Legislation?
February 8, 2018
The Conservative Party Manifesto and the Constitution
May 18, 2017
The new Justice Secretary, Elizabeth Truss, on a British Bill of Rights
September 9, 2016
The 2016 Queen’s Speech and the Constitution
May 18, 2016
Theresa May’s case for withdrawal from the ECHR: Politically astute, legally dubious, constitutionally naïve
April 26, 2016
Ali v United Kingdom
: Article 6(1) ECHR and administrative decision-making
March 13, 2016
The UK Supreme Court as a constitutional ‘longstop’: Michael Gove’s evidence to the House of Lords Constitution Committee
December 2, 2015
Philippe Sands’ Elson Lecture: Britain, Europe and Human Rights
October 23, 2015
RightsInfo: What are Human Rights?
October 14, 2015
Public Law Update #6: A British Bill of Rights?
October 8, 2015
Michael Gove, the Justice Committee and the Human Rights Act
July 15, 2015
RightsInfo: 50 human-rights cases that transformed Britain
June 26, 2015
Human Rights in the United Kingdom: Where Now?
May 22, 2015
Could the Devolved Nations Block Repeal of the Human Rights Act and the Enactment of a New Bill of Rights?
May 12, 2015
Replacing the Human Rights Act: The House of Lords, the Parliament Acts and the Salisbury Convention
May 11, 2015
What does a Conservative government mean for the future of human rights in the UK?
May 8, 2015
Beyond the European Convention: Human Rights and the Common Law
April 26, 2015
Human Rights and the Conservatives’ Manifesto: Four Comments
April 14, 2015
A Post-European British constitution: Plus ça change?
March 2, 2015
Lady Hale’s 2015 Bryce Lecture: The Supreme Court in the United Kingdom Constitution
February 27, 2015
#50cases — Three suggestions
February 26, 2015
David Davies MP on the Paris shootings and the Human Rights Act: a short response
January 8, 2015
Moohan: Prisoner voting, the independence referendum and the common law
December 17, 2014
Dominic Grieve on the Conservative Party’s human-rights proposals
December 4, 2014
Human rights, proportionality and the judicial function:
R (Carlile) v Home Secretary
in the Supreme Court
November 13, 2014
Beyond Sark: The implications of the
Barclay
case
October 23, 2014
David Cameron promises a “British Bill of Rights”. And what, exactly, does that mean?
October 1, 2014
The astonishingly low standard of Human Rights Act bashing
September 27, 2014
A hardening of Conservative human rights policy: what are the options?
July 17, 2014
Why Dominic Grieve’s departure from the Government might hasten the UK’s withdrawal from the ECHR
July 15, 2014
The right to die: deference, dialogue and the division of constitutional authority
June 26, 2014
Labour’s plans for the Human Rights Act
June 3, 2014
The Immigration Act 2014: A sequel to the prisoner-voting saga?
May 23, 2014
The “vigour” of common law rights and values: A v BBC [2014] UKSC 25
May 9, 2014
Cambridge Sixth Form Law Conference talk: The UK’s (unusual) constitution
March 19, 2014
Whole life tariffs: Court of Appeal differs from, but does not defy, Strasbourg
February 18, 2014
Ministerial changes at the MoJ and the implications for human rights reform
December 18, 2013
The three dimensions of the relationship between UK law and the ECHR
December 5, 2013
Law, Rights and Constitutional Politics: reflections on the Human Rights Act’s past and future
December 3, 2013
Osborn: The common law, the Convention, and the right to an oral hearing
October 10, 2013
Repealing the Human Rights Act: what might lie ahead?
September 30, 2013
Theresa May and Chris Grayling on human rights
September 30, 2013
Abu Qatada is gone—but the debate is far from over
July 8, 2013
An Introduction to Public Law: Three Short Videos on the
Belmarsh Prison
case
May 10, 2013
The Queen’s Speech, the Immigration Bill and Article 8 ECHR
May 9, 2013
European Human Rights Law Review
article on the Bill of Rights Commission
April 15, 2013
Does the ultra vires doctrine prevent courts from replacing Wednesbury review with proportionality?
March 15, 2013
Westminster v Strasbourg: taking the gloves off?
March 13, 2013
Theresa May and the ECHR: some thoughtful responses – and some further thoughts
March 7, 2013
Repealing the Human Rights Act, withdrawing from the ECHR: be careful what you wish for
March 4, 2013
Human Rights Act 1998 (Repeal and Substitution) Bill: going nowhere, but a sign of things to come?
February 28, 2013
Some interesting LSE working papers: prisoner voting and the EU Act 2011
February 27, 2013
Is the margin of appreciation something that domestic courts should be applying?
February 25, 2013
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