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🚨 Our postdoc Seána Glennon will deliver a talk on deliberative mini-publics and constitutional reform this Wednesday Centre for Constitutional Studies, register here for the webinar ⬇️

Happening tomorrow: my lecture Centre for Constitutional Studies on the exciting potential for deliberative minipublics in achieving legal change. I’ll be discussing the reform of Ireland’s law on abortion & possibilities for enhanced citizen deliberation in Canada. Register for the webinar:

There's still time to register for tomorrow's webinar with Seána Glennon of Centre de droit public uOttawa Public Law Centre! Register here if you're interested in deliberative democracy, comparative constitutionalism, and reproductive rights: ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Topics under discussion at our project workshop at Humboldt University included the place of the ‘unwritten’ in German law; legal populism; the principle of the rule of law; legality; and the legal and political dimensions of unwritten principles.

Our comparative research project on unwritten constitutionalism discussed topics from the rule of law in Germany to constitutional architecture in Canada, at our workshop Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin last week

Our final event of the year is approaching! 👉Don't miss Prof Vanessa MacDonnell and Dr Seána Glennon of Unwritten Constitutional Norms and Principles with Prof David Kenny as discussant 🗓️ Wed 4 December 3.30-5pm 🌏Room 11 House 39 TCD Law School 📧Contact [email protected] to receive the paper

Great Irish Jurisprudence Society seminar taking place this Weds 4 December at TCD Law School on deliberative mini-publics and constitutional change with Vanessa MacDonnell & Seána Glennon and comments from TriCON member David Kenny

A fantastic Irish Jurisprudence Society workshop today Trinity College Dublin. Vanessa MacDonnell & I presented our paper, ‘The Public Law Dimensions of Novel Citizen Innovations’. Thank you @hogan_hilary & Conor Crummey for inviting us & David Kenny for doing a wonderful job as discussant!

We were delighted to welcome Vanessa MacDonnell and Seána Glennon to present "The Public Law Dimensions of Novel Citizen Innovations" to the Irish Jurisprudence Society, and special thanks to David Kenny for acting as discussant! Stay tuned for more Irish Jurisprudence Society events in 2025!

My lecture on the role of deliberative minipublics in shaping major constitutional changes in Ireland, and the role they could play in Canada, is now available here ⬇️ Thank you to Centre for Constitutional Studies at University of Alberta Faculty of Law and Dr Richard Mailey for the invitation!

A big thank you to Richard Albert for featuring my recent lecture on innovations in popular participation in constitutional change (delivered Centre for Constitutional Studies) in The Leaflet - lots of exciting content in this edition:

New blog post from Vanessa MacDonnell on the legal challenge to Justin Trudeau's request for prorogation of parliament in Canada ⬇️

Kicking off 2025 with an introduction to our project! We examine the phenomenon of unwritten constitutionalism from a comparative and inter-disciplinary perspective, focusing on three jurisdictions: Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

My article on the case for reforming Canada’s electoral system, published today in The Conversation Canada - I argue that a system with an element of proportionality could help combat democratic malaise & political polarisation: theconversation.com/lessons-from-i…

I am excited to announce a special event on the potential for deliberative minipublics to reinvigorate democracy in Canada! 🗓️ Fri February 28 11:30 📍 Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa Co-hosted by Centre de droit public uOttawa Public Law Centre & Allard School of Law Project on Deliberative Governance & Law Register: eventbrite.ca/e/deliberative…

New from me - the case for closer cooperation between Canada and the EU, in the wake of Trump’s threatened trade war

As Canada gears up for a federal election, I spoke with CBC News about reforming the ‘first past the post’ electoral system: cbc.ca/player/play/vi…

It was an honour to be part of this panel Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa. We had a rich discussion about populism & reproductive rights in Latin America, France & Ireland. Thank you to the Centre for International Policy Studies & International Women's Forum for the invitation!

My piece published today analysing Canada’s historic federal election - with some reflections on what might come next ⬇️

Just published: my blog piece on the evolution of Ireland’s abortion law, arising from last month’s panel on ‘Left Populist Movements and Women’s Reproductive Rights: A Comparative View of Recent Abortion Law Reforms’ Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa: cips-cepi.ca/2025/05/14/fro…