A ‘reserved powers’ model of devolution for Wales: what should be ‘reserved’?
This post also appears on ClickonWales, the Institute for Welsh Affairs’ blog, here. Since at least 2004, when the Richard Commission proposed one, there has been significant support in Wales for...
View ArticleA legal jurisdiction for Wales?
This post also appears on the Institute of Welsh Affairs’s blog, ClickonWales, here. The debate about whether there should be a legal jurisdiction for Wales, so that Wales would no longer share a...
View ArticleLegislative consent for the Trade Union bill?
In a speech at the SNP conference in Aberdeen, Grahame Smith of the STUC has apparently argued that the impact of the Trade Union bill currently before the UK Parliament is such that it requires...
View ArticleLegislative consent in Wales
The Sewel convention has rightly come to be seen as key to the working of devolution in the United Kingdom. It may have first been envisaged as a way of enabling Westminster to continue to legislate...
View ArticleThe Enterprise bill: public sector pay-outs and devolution
Having made its way through the Lords, the Enterprise bill will get its Commons second reading next Tuesday. In many ways, this bill exemplifies bad post-devolution legislation, as it’s a portmanteau...
View ArticleLaunch of report on the Draft Wales Bill
With a number of colleagues from the Constitution Unit and the Wales Governance Centre, I have been working for some time on a major examination of the Draft Wales Bill published in October. This...
View ArticleNot meeting the challenge: The failings of the Draft Wales bill
This blog post first appeared on the LSE’s British Politics and Policy blog, here. It also appears on the Constitution Unit’s blog, Constitution-unit.com, here, on the Edinburgh Centre for...
View ArticleThe Draft Wales Bill: analysing the specific reservations
As part of work on the Constitution Unit/Wales Governance project on the Draft Wales Bill leading to the report Challenge and Opportunity: The Draft Wales Bill 2015, I analysed all the specific...
View ArticleBrexit, Article 50 and devolved legislative consent
This post is about whether Brexit requires legislative consent from the devolved legislatures, particularly the Scottish Parliament, and what that consent relates to – whether the whole process of...
View ArticleBrexit, the welfare state and redistribution
My final academic publication is a contribution to a book coming out in June 2019 edited by Scott Greer and Heather Elliott, at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Federalism and...
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