Security sub-group
Conor Gearty’s next book Homeland Insecurity. The Rise And Rise Of Global Anti-Terrorism Law will be published by Polity in May 2024. Conor has tested his ideas in the book at seminars and public lectures in Oxford, Belfast and Dublin as well as with Hub colleagues and others at LSE.
Richard Martin has presented empirical findings from his research on police powers to police leaders across the UK, as well as policy makers at the Home Office. His work has been cited by the UK Supreme Court (R(W80) [2023] UKSC 24) on the legal test for police use of force in police disciplinary proceedings. Findings from Richard’s book, Policing Human Rights (OUP: 2021), formed part of formal recommendations made in the Northern Ireland Policing Board’s Annual Human Rights Report (2021). Public order powers and protest case law is an area Richard has continued to write on. In May 2022, he was a panellist on the Symposium on the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022, organized by the Criminal Bar Association of England and Wales. He has analysed recent public order legislation in the Criminal Law Review and Blackstone’s Briefings. Richard is also a co-author of Dimension 2 (Safety and Security) of The Northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report. The report measures the distance travelled, either closer to, or further away from, the shared goal of a peaceful and inclusive society in Northern Ireland. It is commissioned by the Community Relations Council, an Arm's Length Body of the Northern Ireland Executive.
ECHR sub-group
Conor Gearty gave a keynote lecture at the conference on human rights held in Cambridge in September, under the auspices of the European Human Rights law review. The title of the lecture was ‘The Council of Europe and Empire’.
Public Law Theory sub-group
Jo Murkens is Co-Chair of the International Society of Public Law, Great Britain and Ireland Chapter. In a paper that overlapped with the Security Hub Conor Gearty presented his paper on the Suffragettes and Civil Liberties to the Cambridge legal historians in October 2023. Mike Wilkinson’s monograph Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (OUP 2021) has been extensively discussed in academic journals, magazines, blogs, and podcasts. The book is to be the subject of a two-day workshop at the University of Montreal’s Research Center of Public Law in May 2024. Mike is also a regular contributor to Jacobin Magazine and Verfassungsblog
Comparative Law sub-group
Tarun Khaitan has accepted invitations to join the advisory boards of the Indian Law Review and the East Africa Community Law Journal. Tarun has also been cited by the Indiian Supreme Court in its marriage equality judgment (October 2023).
The work of Martin Loughlin crosses many Hub boundaries, much of it sparked by his recent book Against Constitutionalism. This includes the Balkinization Book Symposium, with essays by Dawood, Suk, Gowder, Balkin, Levinson, Fishkin and Loughlin's response. There is also a Podcast and an Interview, Nov 2023(Spanish): Entrevista a Martin Loughlin - HayDerecho.