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The United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act as a Catalyst of Constitutional Migration: Patterns and Limitations of Rights Importation by Design (2023)
Journal Article
Masterman, R. (2023). The United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act as a Catalyst of Constitutional Migration: Patterns and Limitations of Rights Importation by Design. European Constitutional Law Review, 19(1), 88-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1574019623000019

The United Kingdom Human Rights Act 1998 – constitutional migration – impacts of legislative design and process on the internalisation of international standards – a taxonomy of migratory patterns under the Human Rights Act – constitutional migration... Read More about The United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act as a Catalyst of Constitutional Migration: Patterns and Limitations of Rights Importation by Design.

Brexit and the United Kingdom’s Devolutionary Constitution (2022)
Journal Article
Masterman, R. (2022). Brexit and the United Kingdom’s Devolutionary Constitution. Global Policy, 13(52), 58-68. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-5899.13064

This piece considers the implications of the Brexit process for the United Kingdom’s territorial constitution. It advances two narratives of the devolutionary settlement; one which emphasises the continuing post-devolution influence – and dominance –... Read More about Brexit and the United Kingdom’s Devolutionary Constitution.

New Labour's Judicial Power Project (2022)
Book Chapter
Masterman, R. (2022). New Labour's Judicial Power Project. In M. Gordon, & A. Tucker (Eds.), The New Labour constitution : twenty years on. Bloomsbury

The Constitutional Influence of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the UK’s Apex Court: Institutional Proximity and Jurisprudential Divergence? (2020)
Journal Article
Masterman, R. (2020). The Constitutional Influence of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the UK’s Apex Court: Institutional Proximity and Jurisprudential Divergence?. Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly, 71(2), 285-302

It is often claimed that the constitutional role of the UK’s apex court is enriched as a result of the experiences of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council as interpreter of constitutions within its overseas jurisdiction. This paper considers t... Read More about The Constitutional Influence of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the UK’s Apex Court: Institutional Proximity and Jurisprudential Divergence?.

Multi-Layered Constitutions (2019)
Book Chapter
Masterman, R. (2019). Multi-Layered Constitutions. In R. Masterman, & R. Schütze (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to comparative constitutional law (47-497). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316716731.019

Examination of the state-centric dynamics of constitutions can only partially illuminate the multi-faceted characteristics of constitutional law. A statist focus often obscures both internal and external dimensions of constitutions themselves, and of... Read More about Multi-Layered Constitutions.

Unity, Disunity and Vacuity: Constitutional Adjudication and the Common Law (2018)
Book Chapter
Masterman, R., & Wheatle, S. (2018). Unity, Disunity and Vacuity: Constitutional Adjudication and the Common Law. In M. Elliott, J. Varuhas, & S. Wilson Stark (Eds.), The unity of public law : doctrinal, theoretical, and comparative perspectives (123-148). Hart Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509915217.ch-006

Roger Masterman Se-Shauna Wheatle Our thanks are due to Mark Elliott and William Lucy for their comments on a previous draft. The common law is often seen as a unifying and stabilising factor across and within jurisdictions; in the United Kingdom, fo... Read More about Unity, Disunity and Vacuity: Constitutional Adjudication and the Common Law.