PhD candidate at Queen's University Belfast. Looking at legislative drafting. Research Officer at the Northern Ireland Assembly. Interested in devolution, public law, politics and climate change. He/him
Anurag Deb
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My first paper for the Assembly is about changing customs fees in NI. If you shop online from overseas sellers, this may interest you. So open a browser window, get some coffee and enjoy the dry and technical resplendence of customs on this sunny afternoon 😎
www.niassembly.gov.uk/globalassets...
Courts in the UK constitutional set-up are not known for quashing primary legislation on ordinary JR grounds. So what happened in the BIOT case? I argue here that the judgment was neither mystifying nor mundane, but an important reminder to look beyond the UK for insights about its own constitution.
South India: dosa, idli, vada and of course, only Indian filter coffee.
For ICON-S Dublin attendees this year, there will be a roundtable on my book, Judicial Individuality on the UKSC, at 2:30pm on Day 1 of the event (29 June).
Join me, @aoifemod.bsky.social, @colinmurray.bsky.social and @anuragdeb.bsky.social for a discussion on judicial behaviour on the UKSC
I am not involved in this but my colleagues at Manchester have organised a great conference on the Future of Constitutional Reform taking place at UOM on 20-21 May
Details and programme here:
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/03/20/c...
Most(?) academics celebrated the Court of Appeal’s judgment in Higgs v Farmor School last year.
We didn’t. See why here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
@anuragdeb.bsky.social @samuelwillis.bsky.social
Anurag Deb
Anurag Deb
Anurag Deb
The public law team at the University of Manchester Law Department, in collaboration with the UK Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA), is holding a two-day conference on the topic of “The Future …
For the *huge* proportion of Bluesky interested in doctoral study in small democracies, policy in the Crown Dependencies, and/or Atlantic Archipelago insurrection, some project ideas ...
Lewis Graham
Lewis Graham
In this article, we reflect upon three distinct human rights dimensions present in the Court of Appeal's judgment in Higgs v Farmor's School [2025] EWCA Civ 109
The NI comparison underlines how Higgs was a *bewilderingly* contra legem/against the grain interpretation of the Equality Act.
The quashing of primary legislation: mystifying or mundane? administrativecourtblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/t...
Lewis Graham
British legal discourse around its constitutional structure and practice (& problems that arise in those) has learned practically nothing from its own constitutional experiments around its empire for a quarter of a millennium.
I recently went to Dishoom for the first time, intrigued at seeing vada pav on a restaurant menu. Would recommend (though the lahsun chutney needs to be spicier), but the experience of eating it straight from the street vendor as you dodge motorbike bros and watch unbothered cows, is unbeatable 😌
One of the striking things about a UK PhD in an area like law or history is how we look to a candidate to have the fundamental idea for what they want to spend four years becoming a world expert in…
