ConstitutionUK

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty | Professor Conor Gearty, Director of LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs, provides the latest summary of the ideas from the Constitution UK community. Are you at the top of the leaderboard?, is your idea gaining votes? If not, what are you waiting for? Join the debate.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Chamali Fernando, Daniel Zeichner, Helen Hoogewerf McComb | Professor Conor Gearty hosts Constitution UK’s first event at Gonville and Cauis, Cambridge University. Listen as Cambridge residents along with Helen Hoogewerf McComb, President, Cambridge Student Union, Daniel Zeichner, Labour Parliamentary Candidate for Cambridge and Chamali Fernando, Conservative Parliamentary Candidate discuss the role of Government.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty | Professor Conor Gearty, Director of LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs, provides a summary of the ideas from the Constitution UK community. Are you at the top of the leaderboard?, is your idea gaining votes? If not, what are you waiting for? Join the debate by visiting www.constitutionuk.com and share your ideas.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty, Dr Andrew Blick | Professor Conor Gearty, of the London School of Economics and Political Science talks to Dr Andrew Blick, Lecturer in Politics at King’s College London to find out what exactly is a constitution. What is the difference between a written constitution and an unwritten one? Professor Gearty and Dr Blick also discuss the history of the Magna Carta and it’s significance. Where do you fit in? Join the debate by visiting www.constitutionuk.com and share your ideas as we crowdsource a written UK constitution.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty | Professor Conor Gearty, Director of LSE’s Institute of Public Affairs, provides a summary of the ideas from the Constitution UK community. Are you at the top of the leaderboard?, is your idea gaining votes? If not, what are you waiting for? Join the debate by visiting www.constitutionuk.com and share your ideas.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty | Professor Conor Gearty, of the London School of Economics and Political Science, explains how Constitution UK is helping to shape the UK’s first written constitution. With English regions feeling neglected, the Scottish Independence saga, unrest over the disproportionate power of London and the confusion surrounding Europe, it’s clear that there is something seriously wrong with the current political situation.

Contributor(s): Tony Travers | In the first of a weekly series, Professor Conor Gearty talks to Tony Travers - Advisor to the House of Commons, Communities and Local Government Select Committee and Board Member of the Local Government Network – about the issues surrounding local government. What it should be empowered to control? Where are the pitfalls? How prone are local officials to corruption? All these issues form part of the Constitution UK project – an open internet forum to share ideas, debate topics and help shape new ways of thinking.

Contributor(s): The University of Strathclyde, Professor Conor Gearty | Conor Gearty interviews students at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on the value of equality of esteem.

Contributor(s): Ripplez CIC, Professor Conor Gearty | Conor Gearty asks young mothers in Derby about the meaning and importance of human security.

Contributor(s): Professor Conor Gearty | The UK has no constitution written down in one document. Instead, it has laws, conventions, practices, and activities scattered all over the place that constitutional lawyers gather together and describe as the UK constitution. In a unique project, LSE's IPA and Department of Law are coming together with the LSE Public Policy Group and Democratic Audit to pioneer the crowdsourcing of a new UK constitution, asking members of the public to participate in, advise on, and eventually to draft a new UK constitution.