Sam Guy

Study potentially of interest @jamesomalley.co.uk @mjrobbins.com @samfr.bsky.social

Access to justice in legal challenges to infrastructure projects - Nuffield Foundation

Excited to start today on a @nuffieldfoundation.org funded study, 'Access to justice in legal challenges to infrastructure projects'. It will look at the causes and impacts of judicial review of major infrastructure projects, and wisdom of further reform www.nuffieldfoundation.org/project/acce...

York Law School - Academic Jobs Microsite Shape the future of law with us. We seek research-intensive academics to join our innovative and collegiate department. Explore career-defining opportunities at a leading UK law school.

@uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social is recruiting for a number of positions across Chair, SL, Lecturer & Associate Lecturer levels! I've loved working here so far, and more public lawyers are always welcome... features.york.ac.uk/law-school-j...

Guess what the evidence shows? Disabled people pushed into deeper poverty are pushed *further from, not into, the workplace*.

NEW REPORT, PACKED WITH EVIDENCE from community organisations: www.citizensadviceyork.org.uk/wp-content/u...

The special edition of the KLJ on national security issues that I edited with Keith Ewing is now out in full. Many thanks to our contributors: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rklj20/3...

Public Law (@publiclaw.bsky.social) A Thomson Reuters journal publishing research on public law: https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/en-gb/products/public-law. This account is maintained by the editors: public.law@durham.ac.uk

The January 2026 issue of @publiclaw.bsky.social is now available on Westlaw. Analysis pieces from @erinferguson.bsky.social on the Tortoise Media and Sammut decisions; Dan Meagher on the interaction of art and non-discrimination law; and @diggorybailey.bsky.social on use of explanatory notes ...

A snowy University of York campus, framed by an office window

I’m really pleased to be starting my new job today as a Lecturer in Law at the (rather snowy) University of York!

How can the government ensure inquiries are set up to succeed? | Institute for Government Early decisions can set inquiries off on the wrong path.

📝Our new @instituteforgovernment.org.uk report with @jackpannell.bsky.social & @emmanorris.bsky.social out today sets out out the underlying problems with the way public inquiries are established

We argue ministers need better support to make informed decisions about how an inquiry should be set up

For those of you just waking up - Leeds mass transit has been cancelled.

Remember when HS2 to Leeds was cancelled by the NIC's shitty maths and fundamental lack of expertise, and Leeds was thrown the bone of "you'll get trams" and I said those would never be delivered?

Yeah, as I was saying...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Law **2 Posts**Are you an outstanding individual with the ambition to join a thriving law school and to contribute to the further development of the School and its research centres? Are you passionate abo...

Two Lectureships in Law with us at @lawatleeds.bsky.social. Open call, 'An ability to contribute to teaching in one or more of the foundational LLB subjects is essential.'

Genuinely a lovely bunch of people to be around. In the present HE context, it matters!

jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

A new article from me has been published in Public Law (now available on WestLaw), in which I argue that the landscape for bringing claims relying on Article 14 ECHR has been fundamentally altered by the UKSC's decision in SC [2021] UKSC 26.

Alex Schwartz: Recent Attempts to Curb Judicial Power in the United Kingdom The era of Conservative Party government from 2015–2024 was one of great constitutional turmoil in the United Kingdom. In addition to (and partly because of) the controversies surrounding the UK’s …

Alex Schwartz: Recent Attempts to Curb Judicial Power in the United Kingdom ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/12/08/a...

Judicial Review and Good Administration: Refining the Public Interest Model of Judicial Intervention Abstract. While UK judicial review is comparatively under-theorised, the literature has been catching up, with numerous theoretical underpinnings now ident

Excited to see an advance version piece - using public policy ideas to rethink JR - up online now. academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

It’s part of a bigger project so if interested to discuss please drop me a line. (Or pass on to anyone you think might have an interest!)

Senior Lecturer/Reader in Public Law at Newcastle University Apply now for the Senior Lecturer/Reader in Public Law role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

Rarely spotted job fairy alert! A specific public law senior lecturer/reader post (and a few other positions - including in environmental law - to boot). Please spread the word! Happy to discuss with anyone who is tempted to come join us in Newcastle:

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM199/s...

Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution YouTube video by UCL Laws

1/9 the video of my UCL current legal problems lecture is now up: "Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution". It looks at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirjjkc.bsky.social  chairs.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx3P...

Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

The October 25 issue of @publiclaw.bsky.social will land on Westlaw shortly. Analysis from Farrah Raza on NHS regulation and patient choice and @a-b-evans.bsky.social on recall proposals for the Senedd. Articles are from @echrhawk.bsky.social on the vulnerability of the UK's HR protections; ...

Events: Call for Papers – The Future of Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom Wednesday 20 and Thursday 21 May 2026, University of Manchester, United Kingdom The public law team at the University of Manchester Law Department, in collaboration with the UK Constitutional Law A…

Thrilled to share this call for papers for a conference on the Future of Constitutional Reform in the United Kingdom at @uomlaw.bsky.social with the support of @ukcla.bsky.social ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/10/03/e...

Great post

Jonathan Collinson: From Learning to Lawyering: When Can Political Accountability Have Legal Consequences? The responsibility for holding the government to account for its failings is the core constitutional role of a range of ‘watchdog’ bodies outside of Parliament, such as inspectorates, commissioners…

Jonathan Collinson: From Learning to Lawyering: When Can Political Accountability Have Legal Consequences?
ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/09/11/j...

Speeding up, slowing down, and managing time through managing atmospheres - new 🔓paper in @journallawsociety.bsky.social on immigration bail tribunal hearings.

Indebted in particular to Nick Gill's, Jess Hambly's and Melanie Griffiths' work on law and time.

eprints.gla.ac.uk/361308/1/361...

Putting the Brakes on Infrastructure? Judicial Review Challenges to HS2 and the Critique of ‘Litigant Power’ Abstract. A growing critique regards judicial review as inhibiting infrastructure delivery on the basis of what I term ‘litigant power’, which may come to

Indeed - unless the concern isn't with cases' outcomes but the admin/policy impacts of JR being regularly used (whether successful or not) e.g. delays, costs, pre-emptively JR-proofing policies etc. If you'll forgive a self-plug, I talk about this distinction here: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...

With a random dig at HS2 as ‘posh spending’ thrown in for good measure

Potentially more substantial infrastructure JR reform proposals on the way, including raising the permission threshold and ensuring 'each decision faces only one review'. Last year's Banner Review noted there may be a case to raise permission but it risked making permission hearings more cumbersome

Hybrid bills: Parliament’s role in delivering major infrastructure | Institute for Government How to improve the hybrid bill legislative process.

New report from my colleagues @jackpannell.bsky.social & @paddy-mcalary.bsky.social on hybrid bills and parliament's role in delivering the government's major infrastructure projects

Excellent insight into these bills and the reform that's needed

www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

Hybrid bills: Parliament’s role in delivering major infrastructure | Institute for Government How to improve the hybrid bill legislative process.

How can government legislate better to deliver major infrastructure projects? Fantastic new paper from @instituteforgovernment.org.uk on how to improve the little-known hybrid bill procedure! www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...

Looking forward to chairing a session on crowdfunding and litigation funding for JR at this, later in the year, with an excellent panel of speakers

The UK still needs HS2, delivered in full. There's no viable alternative.

Me, from years back, making this point:

Career Development Fellow in Public Law at Durham University An opportunity for an academic position as a Career Development Fellow in Public Law is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

Durham Law is hiring a 3yr career development fellow in public law! Some lovely ppl here: @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social @lizaoloughlin.bsky.social @seshauna.bsky.social @rogermasterman.bsky.social @dkagiaros.bsky.social @nataliesedacca.bsky.social ... and @aileenmcharg.bsky.social
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