Dr Stuart Wallace

Our regular morning visit

Why do ICJ judgments alternate 1 page French 1 page English?! it is an insane way to present any information. The procedure goblin will know... @drnajimagi.bsky.social

In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]

Seeing a performer successfully hype the crowd with "When I say constitutional, you say crisis!" makes me wonder if we're doing public law conferences all wrong

Happy publication day! Public Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Public-Law-a... Private Law and the UK Supreme Court: www.routledge.com/Private-Law-...

Hearing a lot of Russell group unis are taking on staggering numbers of Home UG students to offset weaker international recruitment. This has been a recent trend, but it seems to be out of control this recruitment cycle. Downstream impact on newer unis will be catastrophic @gsoh31.bsky.social

This is an excellent piece well worth your time

Thanks to this excellent blog, I've recently learned what a super-injunction is. From a foreign public lawyer's perspective it's bonkers. Perhaps Professor Dicey will stop defaming French administrative law now.

Great to see the university's spam filter identify this email from the university's own printing service informing me something I urgently needed was ready as spam👏

Explainer on how the UK could leave the ECHR - and what it would mean. ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/l...

Do a PhD in a field you are passionate about and you’ll never work a day in your life, because there are no jobs.

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

As expected, a minimalist approach to UKIMA reform - no statutory change, but improved processes for agreeing exclusions, and a commitment to the Common Frameworks as a mechanism for co-operation.

New post: The developing domestic debate about the ECHR: Navigating two extremes publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/09/t...

Three things are inevitable in life - death, taxes and that the university's results website will crash on results day.

A choice quote taken from Mr Justice Lavender in a recent dog destruction appeal

Prof Meg Russell's (@conunitucl.bsky.social) 2024 Public Law lecture - "Should we be worried about the decline of parliamentary scrutiny?" - is available open access here: www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/content/dam/...

I don't think I'll ever be ready random spam email, show me the way

AR v United Kingdom (1 July 2025): hudoc.echr.coe.int?i=001-243878 The Strasbourg Court, disagreeing with the UK Supreme Court (see [2018] UKSC 47), finds a breach of Article 8 ECHR re police disclosures - not "in accordance with the law".

This raises two interesting questions for legal ontology buffs: what is a bill? and more crucially: *where* is it?

The limits of Art 2 Windsor Framework's non-diminution guarantee for post-Brexit NI have yet to be fully tested. An impressive expert report for the NIHRC has just produced a powerful case for it covering a broad range of EU protections as securing environmental rights: nihrc.org/assets/uploa...

Huge congratulations to Khaleed Alsufyyan who passed his viva yesterday. His thesis "The Maritime Counterterrorism Governance Mechanisms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". Supervised by Clive Walker and I. Examined by @alangreene.bsky.social and Alex Batesmith

James Kelly and I have a new article out in EHRLR (2025, 3, 279-305): ‘Legislating with rights in Northern Ireland - why Stormont’s exceptionalism is Stormont’s paradox’. Perfect holiday reading and fits right into your hand luggage.

ECHR website appears to be down, weird. (gotta live up to my handle on here)

Woke up at 425 vicariously anxious for my PhD student who has his viva today 😬

This needs to be acknowledged over and over + as I pointed out elsewhere, HRA was also adopted after ECHR was being applied to conflicts and extra-territorially brill.com/view/journal...

Shonky WMD evidence used as a pretext for war - check Mixed messaging about regime change - check UK supporting USA war effort - check Asking for release of AG's legal advice on legality of war - check

The July 2025 issue of Public Law is now available via westlaw. Featuring Analysis from Tasneem Ghazi (Constitutional Constraints on Delegated powers in the UK and Ireland); Mary Dobbs and @colinmurray.bsky.social (on the Rights Community Action case) and Trevor Wan (on proportionality ...

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...

Maybe I'm not in the right frame of mind for writing the open textbook today...

Fascinating to see the "we don't need written rights protections, the protections are already there in the common law" argument made by Alexander Hamilton... in 1788. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

The tone of discussions about the ECHR has worrying echoes of Brexit - the mis/disinformation, the lack of objectivity, the anti-intellectualism, the unwillingness to engage with other European states to change, the all or nothing mentality.

Some kind words from one of the titans of UK constitutional law. This article is forthcoming in public law in a few months. Always good for a sobering conclusion 😂

I thought the UK had reached peak stupid during Brexit, but it turns out it was just base camp