Adam Perry

Perry on an Abductive Account of British Constitutional Principles, legaltheoryblog.com/2025/11/18/per… - Adam Perry (University of Oxford – Faculty of Law) has posted Abductive Principles of the British Constitution on SSRN.

A reminder that the CFA for the Oxford Administrative Law Workshop closes in one month - 20 Dec 2025. Everyone is welcome to submit an abstract. If you'll be around Oxford at that time, and want to simply attend the workshop, please be in touch. adamdperry.com/oxford-adminis…

CFA details: Deadline is 20 December 2025. Abstracts should be anonymised, 1000-1200 words, and focus on the paper’s arguments/contributions. Abstracts on any topic relevant to English administrative law are welcome. Please think about submitting! And please share widely!

I'm co-organising an Administrative Law Workshop at Brasenose College, Oxford in April 2026! Presenters will include Janina Boughey, Robert Thomas, Joe Tomlinson, and Hanna Wilberg. The remaining presentation slots will be filled through a CFA: adamdperry.com/oxford-adminis…

@EzeqMonti and I are delighted to announce the 2025-26 Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar Series Line-up & Schedule. More info and details 👇

Again, draft available here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… I would really appreciate email comments or criticisms, no matter how small.

What actually separates review and appeal? Mainly origins, procedure, the possibility of rehearing on appeal, and remedies. But substantively there is not much difference.

I have a new draft paper up: “Appeal vs Judicial Review: Myths and Surprises”. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. The orthodoxy in English public law is that appeal is more extensive or broader than judicial review. I argue that this gets things backwards.

Lecturer in Legal Theory and the Philosophy of Law jobs.ac.uk/job/DJT445/lec…

We have a truly amazing line-up for this year (including @NinaVarsava, @FilippaRonquist, and @SJP____ ). I'm really looking forward to it! Join us! Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

We are delighted to announce the results of the CFP for our October conference! We will discuss papers from Faron Ray (UCSD), Rebecca Stone (UCLA), Maggie O'Brien (York), Adam Slavny (Warwick), Benjamin Ewing (Queen's), and Ori Herstein & Ofer Malcai (Hebrew U).

@TimJSayer That’s helpful thanks. I definitely agree on 2 and 3. Not sure about 1 because I think a lot of those cases are about failures to follow a statutorily prescribed procedure/meet some prescribed condition. And that seems to me to fall under the ground of illegality.

@TimJSayer That’s interesting! Do you think courts are mostly dealing with questions that are not about grounds of review at all, or that they are dealing with questions that are about grounds but ones which tend to be neglected in the literature?

Final reminder: the deadline for submitting a paper for the OxJuris/Legal Theory conference is ONE WEEK AWAY! Conference to be held in early October in Oxford. Full details here: oxjuris.com.

Thrilled to receive the news that my paper, "What's the Problem with Substantive Review?" is forthcoming in the McGill Law Journal (@McGill_LJ ). It is the first publication to emerge from my doctoral research @UofTLaw.

Sessions are May 22 & 29. The first session is about planning and writing a research article. The second is about the submission process and responding to referees.

The sessions are designed for scholars in their first five years of a university appointment who haven't published in a generalist academic law journal before but want to do so. Max 25 people per session.

Interested in publishing your work in a leading generalist law journal? The Oxford Journal of Legal Studies is offering online info & advice sessions with the General Editor, an Articles Editor (me), and editorial board members. Details here: academic.oup.com/ojls/pages/onl…