Croatia claiming the entire Adriatic, perhaps?

A gentle reminder to colleagues that our free SLS Public Law ECR/PGR workshop takes place next Wednesday over MS Teams. We have a great selection of papers and a 'publishers panel'. Sign up here forms.office.com/e/FHcctGArpA.

@chrisjmonaghan.bsky.social and I are really excited to be hosting our first event as SLS public law co-convenors for PGRs and ECRs. The schedule for our online early career workshop on the 26th Feb is below 👇

Sign up to attend (free) here: forms.office.com/e/FHcctGArpA.

Upcoming: ECR/PGR SLS Public Law Workshop organised by myself and @chrisjmonaghan.bsky.social. Updated CfP below.

We also have wonderful speakers joining us to share insight into publishing and employability in public law.

Want to join us online? Register here: forms.office.com/e/FHcctGArpA

(3) Also a very slight change to wording in the section the UN bodies.

Previous report said the UK "remains committed to playing a full role", whereas the new report says "is committed"

Probably not necessary to read *too* much into it, but "is committed" appears somewhat more unequivocal

(2) Last year's report (below) reiterated the UK's commitment to IHRL generally, but nothing explicitly on the ECHR.

This year's report specifically emphasises importance of and commitment to the ECHR & HRA: "The Government is
unequivocally committed to the ECHR"

Spent too long deciding on my profile banner picture, so I have played it safe.

Bluesky, meet Maxie.

This was really influential for me during my PhD and is probably the reason my research took a mostly empirical direction.

Hathaway, Do Human Rights Treaties Make a Difference? (2002) 111 Yale Law Journal 1935

Using my inaugural Bluesky tweet (is it a tweet?) to share details of our Society of Legal Scholars Public Law Section workshop for ECRs @chrisjmonaghan.bsky.social.

Hosted online on 26/2/25. Workshop will comprise short papers and guest speakers. Details below 👇