Leah Trueblood

Biography

I am a Career Development Fellow in Public Law at Worcester College. I am also a Postdoctoral Fellow of the British Academy at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights.

I completed my DPhil at University College, Oxford in 2018. My thesis was entitled ‘The Uses and Abuses of Referendums’ and funded by a Fellowship from the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. My research principally concerns the role of referendums in processes of constitutional change. I am also interested in how constitutional referendums intersect with other topics such as voting, representation, and political parties. My research was cited in support of the findings of the Independent Commission on Referendums in July 2018.

Publications

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L Trueblood, 'Brexit and Two Roles for Referendums in the United Kingdom' in Richard Albert and Richard Stacey (eds), The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums (OUP 2020)
L Trueblood, 'Referendums and New Labour's Constitutional Reforms' in Adam Tucker and Michael Gordon (eds), The New Labour Constitution: Twenty Years On (Hart 2020)
L Trueblood, 'Legislating for Referendums in the United Kingdom' (2020) Public Law
L Trueblood, 'Legislated Rights' (2019) MLR [Review]
L Trueblood, 'Parliament's Secret War' (2019) LQR [Review]
L Trueblood, 'More Good Days for Democracy: The Report of the Independent Commission on Referendums ' (2018) UKCLA
L Trueblood, 'The Merits and Meaning of a 'Second' Referendum' (2018) UKCLA
L Trueblood and L Raible, 'The Swiss System of Referendums and the Impossibility of Direct Democracy' (2017) UKCLA
L Trueblood, 'Yes and No: The Problem of Bad Referendums ' (2017) Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
L Trueblood, 'Referendums, Compromise, and Ratification' (2016) UKCLA
L Trueblood, 'Judging Positivism ' (2015) 131 LQR LQR 335 [Review]
L Trueblood, 'Stanley Fish on Politics, Philosophy and Law' (2015) Legal Studies Legal Studies 381 [Review]