Delighted to see @franmonks.bsky.social's excellent portrait, commissioned by Christ Church Oxford's law library, with Oxford law students yesterday. I was worried when she told me the subject doesn't have a veto. I needn't have.

Book Launch Hybrid event with @tarunkhaitan.bsky.social & @surbhikarwa.bsky.social:

Hum Bharat Ke Log: Bhartiya Samvidhan Par Nau Nibandh

Discussants: Rochana Bajpai & Udit Bhatia

At SOAS/online
2.30 pm UK time/ 7 pm India time, Tuesday 16th September

Registration at: tktp.as/EPFWIE

As a proud user of the em-dash (see excerpt from my 2015 monograph below), annoyed to hear my student's use of it challenged as proof of illegitimate AI reliance.

LLMs reflect global—not just Anglo-American—English usage. Your gotcha moment may simply reflect your own parochialism.

Proportional Representation has frequently handed balance of power to extremists in recent years.

FPTP can hand all power to extremists.

Ranked-Choice Vote punishes extremists, by forcing parties to vie for 2nd preference votes from voters of other parties.

About to speak on this excellent panel about a great book soon:

We have cover!
@surbhikarwa.bsky.social
With Vani Prakashan

Victoria Park, London

Swan dance in Hampstead Heath

#Springwatch

Anti-solidaristic far-right parties deny that the interests of *all* the people count equally. They do well under PR, but would be hurt by ranked choice voting, which rewards parties that are not just loved by its own voters but also tolerated by voters of other parties. Time for Europe to switch?

This finally arrived in hard copy. Open access available here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

The Constitution Reform Commission of Bangladesh has *just* proposed a Sri Lanka & Nepal style multipartisan Constitutional Council to make appointments to a host of guarantor institutions. Another reason to join us.

🗓️ Wed, 29 January 25
📍LSE, WC2
🆓 Reg. & Details ▶️ lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c...

#LawPhDTips: Comprehensively reviewing relevant literature is essential, but writing a 'literature review' section is not. Existing scholarship is better 'used' throughout--in framing research ?s, identifying gaps, critiquing, extending, modifying, distinguishing, adding to.

MP Mahua Moitra referenced my #ThousandCuts paper👇in her speech in Parliament today on the state of the Constitution. You can read the paper here:
doi.org/10.1515/lehr...

Today's reading suggestion: Jeremy Waldron on the principle of loyal opposition:

"as far as possible opposition parties are always to be regarded as loyal, no matter what policies or constitutional changes they favor."

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I know the terms are often confused, hence the attempt at a taxonomy. Imp to look at substance of policies, not the label therefore. The meaning of assimilation in theoretical literature is more stable (& consistently negative) though.

A revised taxonomy below, with a new category of 'domination':

Revised table. Comments still welcome.

Does this taxonomy of various 'approaches' to ethnocultural minorities in deeply divided societies make sense? Suggestions/amendments in comments please.

When the Supreme Court quotes you without citation, should you feel proud that your work has passed into received wisdom?