Leah Trueblood
Career Development Fellow
Other affiliations
Bonavero Institute of Human Rights British Academy Law Faculty
Biography
Leah is Fellow and Tutor in Public Law at Worcester College. She is also a recent British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. She completed her D.Phil. research at Oxford in 2019. Her graduate work was funded by University College, Oxford and the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. She has been the recipient of grants from the John Fell Fund, the British Academy, and the Leverhulme Trust. Her research is at the intersection of Public law and Jurisprudence.
Publications
Trueblood L, ‘The Impact of Federalism on Secession Referendums: Comparing Scotland and Québec’ [2023] King’s Law Journal
Trueblood L, ‘Deliberative Peace Referendums (Review)’ (2022) 20(2) International Journal of Constitutional Law 920
Trueblood L and Qvortrup M, ‘Schmitt, Dicey, and the Power and Limits of Referendums in the United Kingdom’ [2021] Legal Studies
Trueblood L and HATFIELD P, ‘SETI and Democracy’ [2020] Acta Astronautica
Trueblood L, ‘Legislating for Referendums in the United Kingdom’ (2020) 2020(Jan) Public Law 49
Trueblood L, ‘Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights Through Legislation’ (2019) 82(3) MODERN LAW REVIEW 577
Trueblood L, ‘Are Referendums Directly Democratic?’ Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
Trueblood L and Qvortrup M, ‘The Case for Supermajority Requirements in Referendums’ International Journal of Constitutional Law
Trueblood L, ‘Public Functions of Political Parties’ Modern Law Review
Trueblood L and HATFIELD P, ‘Precedent and Paradigm: Thomas Kuhn on Science and the Common Law’, The Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (OUP 2023)
Trueblood L, ‘Referendums and New Labour’s Constitutional Reforms’ in A Tucker and M Gordon (eds.), Adam Tucker and Michael Gordon (eds), The New Labour Constitution: Twenty Years On (Hart 2020) (Hart 2020)
Trueblood L, ‘Brexit and Two Roles for Referendums in the United Kingdom’ in R Stacey and R Albert (eds.), The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums (OUP)
Trueblood L, ‘Stanley Fish on Philosophy, Politics and Law’ (2015) 35(2) LEGAL STUDIES 381 (review)