Mike Gordon
@mjg_constitlaw
Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Liverpool
Really pleased to have a new paper (very long in development) coming out in the July issue of @PL_PublicLaw - "Ministerial Irresponsibility in the UK Government: Constitutional Accountability after Theresa May and Boris Johnson" Copy here if of interest: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
“Israel has killed a classroom full of children every single day.” UNRWA Sam Rose tells BBC Radio 4. Children in #Gaza have been killed while sleeping, sheltering in schools, or queuing for water. Graphic by @TRTWorld
Anurag Deb and Nicholas Kilford: Conditioning the UK Parliament’s Power to Legislate for a Devolved Part of the UK: Part II – Some Challenges Posed by Northern Ireland ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/25/anu…
Anurag Deb and Nicholas Kilford: Conditioning the UK Parliament’s power to legislate for a devolved part of the UK: Part I – The Climate Change Act (Northern Ireland) 2022 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/22/anu…
Paolo Sandro: Parliamentary democracy under the veil of secrecy: the Afghan leak super-injunction case as a bonfire of constitutional principles ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/23/pao…
.@DavidLammy: Palestinian children need action, not words. When will the UK Government take further action and hold Israel accountable? Last night, the Foreign Secretary announced more humanitarian assistance to Gaza - but by continuing to license arms transfers, the UK is…
The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. Alongside 25 other partners, the UK message is clear: the war in Gaza must end now. We need an immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages and a full resumption of aid. gov.uk/government/new…
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…
Extraordinary scenes in the Commons tonight as Tory MP @kitmalthouse correctly accuses UK foreign secretary David Lammy of complicity in Israel’s crimes and warns him that he could end up in The Hague
Thomas Horsley: Reforming the UK Internal Market: The UK Government’s Response to the Review of the United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/21/tho…
A leading expert on famine explains why this deliberate starvation of Gaza, in violation of @CIJ_ICJ provisional measures since January 2024, is both unprecedented in the history of famine, and a glaring evidence of Israel committing genocide.
"There is no case since WW2 of starvation that has been so minutely designed and controlled" Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel deliberately starving an entire civilian population
Killed by who? Killed by WHO??
BREAKING: The Palestinian Health Ministry says 73 people have been killed while waiting for humanitarian aid across Gaza. apnews.com/article/israel…
Is the Ethics and Integrity Commission finally about to arrive? Will it "stamp out corruption and restore trust in public office", as Labour promised? Or will it just be a rebrand of the same, rotten standards system? We'll find out next week, it seems. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/…
EXC: Keir Starmer is set to finally unveil his new sleaze watchdog within days. Plans being put in place to announce the Ethics and Integrity Commission before MPs break for the summer on Tuesday. It will take over the powers of Acoba (which overseas lobbying rules) and 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/…
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Announcement: UKCLA Blog Summer Break ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/18/ann…
Six children were killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting for water yesterday, according to BBC News. Last week, eight children were reportedly killed while queuing for nutritional supplements outside of a clinic. These children have names, they had hopes and dreams for…
Lewis Graham: Who Wins and Who Loses Before the Administrative Court? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/14/lew…
We're outraged and heartbroken by reports that at least 15 Palestinians, including eight children, have been killed in an Israeli strike. They were queuing for nutritional supplements outside of a clinic. Nowhere is safe in Gaza. Project Hope, an aid group who ran the clinic,…
We’re appalled by the reported killing in Gaza today of children and women waiting in line for nutritional supplies provided by UNICEF’s partner organization, Project HOPE. The killing of families trying to access life-saving aid is unconscionable.👇 unicef.org/press-releases…
Tanzil Chowdhury offering Reflectons on the Proscription of Palestine Action for @critlegthinking criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/10/ref…
This is a really important intervention from @NimerSultany - while some liberal lawyers are now finding their voices about Israel's genocide, Nimer makes it clear that Israel's attack on Gaza has been genocidal from the outset
"This revisionism is mainly an attempt to justify the prolonged silence of so many... who did not have the courage to recognise the genocide and to call it out earlier". @MiddleEastEye youtube.com/watch?v=C3Bxyo…