UCL-Oxford Workshop hosted at UCL Law Faculty
In a joint effort from the Public Law Discussion Group and students from University College London’s Law Faculty, UCL hosted the first round of UCL-Oxford Workshops on Public Law. The workshop was kindly supported by the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism. Leah Trueblood and Joanna Bell from Oxford's Law Faculty kindly joined the event in London, providing generous and detailed feedback to UCL students. Signe Larsen (Warwick) and Rishika Sahgal (Birmingham Law School) also joined the event as commentators, offering valuable insights to the work presented.
The event was organised around the discussion of original papers from graduate students from both institutions, who were able to receive constructive, insightful and forward-looking comments by senior scholars. The workshop ended with a Keynote speech delivered by Professor Erin Delaney.
This is how the panels were organised:
- Amy Hemsworth (Oxford) – ‘System-Focused Judicial Review: A Challenge to the Judicial Role?’, commented by Richard Rawlings (UCL).
- Kevin James (UCL), ‘A Review of Professor’s Tierney’s “The Federal Contract: A Constitutional Theory of Federalism’, commented by Signe Larsen (Warwick).
- Jan Langemeyer (Oxford), ‘Judicial Review for Error of Law: England and Wales, France and Germany’, commented by Colm O’Cinneide (UCL).
- Eve Lister (UCL), ‘The Right to Respect for Private and Family Life and (In)adequate Housing’, commented by Rishika Sahgal (Birmingham).
- Derick Luong (Oxford), ‘The National Security Act 2023: The Migration of Australian and American Jurisprudence into the UK’, commented by Ewan Smith (UCL).
- Sian McGibbon (UCL), ‘Government by numbers’: a principled approach to rational discrimination and reasonable distinctions in predictive modelling by public bodies’, commented by Joanna Bell (Oxford).
- Natalia Morales-Cerda (UCL), ‘Separating the wheat from the chaff: Chile’s 2019-2022 constituent process from the narrative of non-failure”, commented by Leah Trueblood (Oxford).
- Jana Ruwayha (UCL), ‘Liberal Democracies in Crisis: A Study on the Functions and Lasting Disruptive Effects of a State of Emergency on Legal Systems’ commented by Jeff King (UCL).
- Kenta Tsuda (UCL), ‘Calibrating Agnosticism: Theories of Bureaucratic Motivation in Administrative Law’, commented by Erin Delaney (UCL).
This is the second iteration of the UCL-Oxford Workshops on Public Law, having the first one taken place in June 2024 at Oxford’s Law Faculty. The purpose of these Workshops is to create a space of dialogue and exchange between Faculties, in order to broaden the foundations of the scholarship produced at each space, while providing helpful feedback on the work of doctoral students.
The next Workshop is already in the works and will soon be taking place at the University of Oxford.
Here are some pictures of the event:
