Mark Elliott
@ProfMarkElliott
Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Author of http://www.publiclawforeveryone.com
The Warwick 'rebrand' crystallises much of what is wrong with UK HE today: namely (with honourable exceptions, of course) a fundamental disconnect between senior leaders and the reality of running academic departments and delivering teaching and research 'on the ground'.
A @uniofwarwick spokesperson comments on the Beyond rebrand: “We have leveraged our academic expertise as part of the Vogue media partnership as well as our professional services marketing and communications work” #Beyond #branding timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick-m…
Very timely piece by @DavidErdos highlighting, against the background of the absence of any formal regulatory action in respect of the Afghan data breach, the ICO's 'doubling down' on 'its hyper-selective and hyper-discretionary approach' to enforcement.
David Erdos: The UK Information Commissioner’s Annual Report 2024/25: Surveying a Systematic Trend Away from Adequate Enforcement ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/22/dav…
NB the Prosperity Institute is the thinktank formerly known as the Legatum Institute...
The Prosperity Institute's report on 'Why and How to Leave the ECHR' makes for interesting reading. A short 🧵 /1 prosperity.com/media-publicat…
On first impressions, Suella Braverman's ECHR report rests on an overly selective history of the ECHR and the Belfast Agreement. To say that commitments in the agreement to incorporate the ECHR into Northern Irish law and to limit the Assembly’s ability to legislate ...
As someone who could not possibly have undertaken a PhD without funding, the AHRC scholarship I received (many years ago) was life-changing. I find it incredibly concerning that the the next generation of prospective academics are being denied such opportunities.
The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show. @jgro_the reports timeshighereducation.com/news/student-l…
First look at @iconews stance on MoD #databreach, which put up to 100K #Afghans at grave risk, incl. its relationship to other MoD UK #GDPR violations, the lack of any formal ICO investigation, regulatory action or even reprimand & the need for action now: inforrm.org/2025/07/19/the…
In relation to the Afghan data breach, the ICO 'determined there was little we could add ... that would justify the further allocation of resource away from other priorities'. What could be a 'higher priority' than addressing this particular breach? ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…
A fascinating piece on the right to trial by jury, including a particularly interesting discussion of the different senses in which a right might be 'constitutional'. The argument that Leveson adopted an unduly narrow view of this seems compelling to me. ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/18/ale…
New blogpost: The Afghan super-injunction case: Some constitutional implications publiclawforeveryone.com/2025/07/17/the…
