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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Newcastle Law School’s Dr Sylvia de Mars will be a keynote speaker at the University of Worcester’s Brexit conference,10 years on from the referendum.Her expertise in transnational public law will add valuable insight on Brexit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy presented the paper “Algorithmic repackaging of harm: the role of the prohibition of discrimination in prohibiting harmful price discrimination,“ Workshop “AI and Equality,” University of Southampton, 15-16 April 2026
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
@ruthhoughton.bsky.social will be presenting the paper 'Another Now: Reading Utopias as Method for Feminist Constitutionalism' at Oxford Feminist Jurisprudence Discussion group (29th April 2026) www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Another Now: Reading Utopias as a Method for
AbstractThe scholarship in feminist constitutionalism has to date largely focused on equality
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
In the new episode of ‘Talking about Methods’, Professor Linda Mulcahy talks to Aislinn Fanning, Cristy Clark, Zoe Tongue and @ruthhoughton.bsky.social about utopia as a method frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/utopia-as-a-...
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Utopia as a Method
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
New article written by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social “Too Utopian”: Theories of Utopia in Constituent Power. Global Constitutionalism 2026. In Press. eprint.ncl.ac.uk/310561
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
New episode of #CalledToTheBar featuring ConGov member @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and her co-editors Aoife O'Donoghue and Cher Weixia Chen on their new Research Handbook on Global Governance. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...
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65. Global Governance: Promise, Power, and the Limits of the ‘Global’
In this episode of Called to the Bar, Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Aoife O’Donoghue (Queen’s University Belfast), Ruth Houghton (Newcastle University), and Cher Weixia Chen (George Mason Univers
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Check Dr Sean Molloy new blog post: peacenews.com/connecting-t...
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Connecting the Dots: Placing Children Within the Wider Landscape of Peace Studies - Peace News Network
One group remains consistently absent from formal peace negotiations: children. Sean Molloy reflects on how to fix this.
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
New article written by @ruthhoughton.bsky.social and Thais Andrade Brugnerotto, 'Constituent Power and the feminist approach: an analysis of the Constituent Assembly in Brazil in 1987' revistas.ufpr.br/rinc/article...
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Vista do Poder constituinte e a abordagem feminista: uma análise da Assembleia Constituinte de 1987 no Brasil
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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A blog on why myself @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen decided to put together this Handbook on Global Governance & asking 'Why Bother' elgar.blog/2025/12/05/w...
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“Why Bother?” Reclaiming Global Governance in Troubled Times - ElgarBlog
In the opening chapter of this new Research Handbook on Global Governance, Aoife O’Donoghue asks, “why bother?” In an age when international cooperation and collaboration is on the decline, attempts t...
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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
A Handbook on Global Governance, why bother? This blog sets out the impetus behind the Research Handbook on Global Governance edited by @aoifemod.bsky.social, Cher Weixia Chen and me elgar.blog/2025/12/05/w...
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“Why Bother?” Reclaiming Global Governance in Troubled Times - ElgarBlog
In the opening chapter of this new Research Handbook on Global Governance, Aoife O’Donoghue asks, “why bother?” In an age when international cooperation and collaboration is on the decline, attempts t...
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Global Policy @globalpolicy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
New Book Research Handbook on Global Governance www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/12/2...
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Ruth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Blog on @globalpolicy.bsky.social about the Research Handbook on Global Governance @elgarpublishing.bsky.social edited by @aoifemod.bsky.social, Cher Weixia Chen and me www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/08/12/2...
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Research Handbook on Global Governance
Aoife O’Donoghue, Ruth Houghton and Cher Weixia Chen  introduce a new handbook: Research Handbook on Global Governance (Edward Elgar 2025) ISBN: 978 1 78990 632 5. Extent: 632 pp
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Earlier this month, out star ConGover @ruthhoughton.bsky.social participated in the Durham Cathedral Institute Debate on Magna Carta and its influence today. You can watch the debate here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS2X...
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Magna Carta and its influence today: A Durham Cathedral Institute debate
YouTube video by Durham Cathedral
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Check out our ConGover Tanya Krupiy’s recent podcast interview: Title: Do we need new AI laws? podcasts.ncl.ac.uk/fromnewcastl... Hosted by Callum Borkowski
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Episodes - From Newcastle Podcast
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Our ConGov stars💫 Adam Rowe and @ruthhoughton.bsky.social just published a fascinating article:Rowe, Adam and Houghton, Ruth. "Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State" Pólemos, vol. 19, no. 2, 2025, pp. 281-307. doi.org/10.1515/pol-...
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Authoring the Nation: Madame de Staël and the Literary Origins of the State
For a reflection on the role of literature in the construction of constitutionalism within the Anglosphere, the writings of a French salon-hostess in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries...
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Check out our amazing ConGover @sylviademars.me’s new co-authored article: Elizabeth Sorensen, Sylvia de Mars and David McArdle, ‘Students, Student-Athletes, and the Title IX Religious Exemption’ (2025) 35 Journal of Legal Aspects of Sports 102-165 doi.org/10.18060/28825
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Students, Student-Athletes, and the Title IX Religious Exemption | Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
@benfarrand.bsky.social(3/3):Farrand B. Cybercrime in the TCA:Reduced Cooperation in an Environment of Regulatory Divergence?.In:Davies,G;Carrapico,H,ed.UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit: Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Oxford Dublin:Hart Publishing,2025, pp.287-298
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UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
@benfarrand.bsky.social (2/3)Combating the Dissemination of Counterfeit Goods Post-Brexit:Intellectual Property,Information Sharing and Shared Insecurity.In:Davies,G;Carrapico,H,ed. UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit:Implementing the Trade and Cooperation Agreement.,pp.231-242:
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UK-EU Police and Judicial Cooperation Post-Brexit
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Check the latest work of our ConGover @benfarrand.bsky.social: (1/3) Carrapico H, Farrand B. EU Data Sovereignty: An Autonomy–Interdependence Governance Gap?. Politics & Governance 2025, 13, 10331 (available Open Access here: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg...
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EU Data Sovereignty: An Autonomy–Interdependence Governance Gap? | Article | Politics and Governance
Helena Carrapico, Benjamin Farrand
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Check Professor's @colinmurray.bsky.social blog post co-authored with @anuragdeb.bsky.social @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social on this ABSURD 😡 decision: Policing Pride: R (on the application of Lindsey Smith) v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805. dflw.ie/policing-pri...
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Policing Pride: R (on the application of Lindsey Smith) v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805 (Admin) - Doing Feminist Legal Work
Pride and the Police
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New from @anuragdeb.bsky.social, @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social and me on The Morrigan blog - The Smith judicial review decision into the participation of Northumbria Police in the 2024 Northern Pride is a jaw-dropping mess on expert evidence, standing and irrationality: dflw.ie/policing-pri...
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Policing Pride: R (on the application of Lindsey Smith) v The Chief Constable of Northumbria Police [2025] EWHC 1805 (Admin) - Doing Feminist Legal Work
Pride and the Police
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
One of our star ConGovers, Tanya Krupiy just published a blog post in the LSE blog. Check it out! Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy, ‘The UK’s Approach to Governing AI Risks Exacerbating Inequalities,’ LSE Inequalities Blog, 15 July 2025, blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities....
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The UK’s governance of AI risks exacerbating inequalities
The UK Government has a mission “to create a more equal society”. But does it risk failing on this mission if it doesn't change its approach to governing AI?
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Check a fascinating new blog post from our star ConGover @ruthhoughton.bsky.social entitled “What Would the Founding Fathers Say? Digital Ghosts and Constituent Power”. digi-con.org/what-would-t...
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What Would the Founding Fathers Say? Digital Ghosts and Constituent Power — The Digital Constitutionalist
The United States is not unfamiliar with the idea that a bunch of dead white men might inform the meaning and interpretation of the Constitution. Originalism is the very idea that constitutional meani...
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Check this incredible new article by our ConGover Sylvia de Mars: Sylvia de Mars, 'How I made academic writing work for me' (2025) 76 (RS) NILQ 78-87 (nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...)
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Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly
This is the ninth contribution to NILQ's Reflections on Writing series.
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Newcastle Law School, UK @research-nulawuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Call for papers! We're hosting a symposium exploring legal methods and methodologies in September and the call for abstracts is now open. We're excited that ‪@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social‬ & Prof Linda Mulcahy will be joining us as keynotes! How to submit and event details in the link
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Methodologies Symposium 'Law is but let me explain it once more' - Newcastle Law School - Newcastle University
Exploring diverse, plural, interdisciplinary, critical, decolonial, anti-colonial and socio-legal methodologies alongside doctrinal and mainstream approaches.
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sean Molloy is also presenting a paper on Childing IR in the context of peacebuilding in the upcoming British International Studies Association (BISA) 50th-anniversary conference- 18 to 20 of June in Belfast.
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sean Molloy, our dear ConGover, has also had this great article recently published (4/5): Molloy, S. (2025), ‘Living Apart Together: Child Participation in the Context of Peace Process Theory and Practice, Peacebuilding www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Finally, Sean Molloy also published this interesting blog post too: (3/5) Molloy, S (2025). The Illusion of Inclusion: Child Protection in Peace Agreements, Peace News Network, peacenews.com/the-illusion...
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The Illusion of Inclusion: Child Protection in Peace Agreements - Peace News Network
Dr. Sean Molloy examines whether the inclusion of child protection provisions in peace agreements is genuinely transformative.
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Another recent blog post by Sean Molloy that is well-worth a read (2/5): Molloy, S. (2025) Rewriting the Future: How Peace Agreements Can Break the Cycle of Child Soldiering, Peace News Network, thepeacetoday.com/2025/04/22/r...
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Rewriting the Future: How Peace Agreements Can Break the Cycle of Child Soldiering
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sean Molloy, our fellow ConGover, one of the stars of our School, had a very productive month (1/5) Check his blog posts: Molloy, S. (2025) Living Apart Together: Why Children Belong at the Heart of Peace Processes, PeaceRep, peacerep.org/2025/05/26/l...
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Living Apart Together: Why Children Belong at the Heart of Peace Processes - PeaceRep
Dr Sean Molloy shares the thinking behind his new article, 'Living Apart Together: Child Participation in the Context of Peace Process Theory and Practice.'
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
2/2 Li Wang’s Honourable Mention for the Richard Macrory Prize 2024 in the Journal of Environmental Law comes from her article 'Environmental Constitutionalism in China: A Constitution without Constitutionalism?' The article emerges from Li's PhD research at Newcastle.
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
1/2 Li Wang (ConGov member, former PhD student at Newcastle and now lecturer at Northumbria) has been awarded the Honourable Mention for the Richard Macrory Prize 2024 in the Journal of Environmental Law (Oxford University Press)
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Dr Tanya Krupiy presented this paper "A Quiet Revolution:How the Assumptions in the Equality Act 2010 can be Revisited to Enable it to Respond to Digital Discrimination" at the Association of Human Rights Institutes and Northern United Kingdom Human Rights Network, University of Edinburgh, 7 May 25
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Updates from our ConGovers: Tania Krupiy Podcast hosted by Bernardo Carvalho De Mello, My research on artificial intelligence and human rights plus tips for PhD applicants, open.spotify.com/episode/4fmQ...
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S4 E3 - Tanya Krupiy - her research on AI and Human Righs and helpful tips on applying for a PhD
North East Law Review · Episode
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Updates from our ConGovers: Tania Krupiy presented the paper "Artificial Intelligence, Agility and Fragility: Rethinking Assumptions in the Equality Act 2010 to Strengthen the Protections from Discrimination" at the Future of Technology and Society Discussion Group,University of Oxford, 6 March 2025.
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Updates from our ConGovers: Tania Krupiy presented "Key Themes that Emerged from the Discussion in Focus Groups" at the Unconference, Connected by Data, 20 March 2025.
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Updates from our members:Tania Krupiy presented the paper titled "Aligning Legal Concepts to the Way in Which the Operation of Artificial Intelligence Decision-making Processes Brings About Discrimination"at the ConnectsUK:2nd European Researchers in the UK Event,University of Cambridge, 31 March 25
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ncl-congov.bsky.social @ncl-congov.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Check @ruthhoughton.bsky.social new fantastic blog post: Houghton R, O'Donoghue A. 'Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto'. Verfassungsblog, 2025. Available at: verfassungsblog.de/reading-proj....
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Reading Project 2025 as a Manifesto
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