When: Thursday, February 23, 2023, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PMWhere: TBC
This event has been postponed and a new date will be announced soon.
We are pleased to invite you to our next Alumni Seminar with Professor Jo Murkens, who will be talking about 'The Case Against A Written Constitution'.
Whether the United Kingdom needs a written constitution is a staple of British constitutional debates. Over the years, the fault-lines have shifted from whether to incorporate a Bill of Rights to much deeper disagreement with respect to the people and the central power of the state. In this talk I will neither endorse the conservative case against a written constitution, nor will I argue for the existing constitution to be codified. Instead, I first assess the content of various proposals for a written constitution. I then problematize the process of constitution-making by asking not whether the UK constitution should be codified, but by relating the constitution to the people as the authors and to the state as its object.
Dr Jo Murkens is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He studied English and European Law at Queen Mary.