Leah Trueblood

I am Fellow and Tutor in Public Law at Worcester College. I am also a recent British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights. I originally studied Philosophy at the University of Alberta on a TD Canada Trust National Scholarship. I then undertook a Law degree at the LSE before coming to Oxford for my D.Phil. My D.Phil was generously supported by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. 

Some of my publications are:

                                                                                    Book

Referendums as Representative Democracy (Hart 2024 – Hardback) (Hart 2025 – Paperback)

Reviewed in The International Constitutional Law Journal (Spanish Edition) by Maris Köpcke

                    in Public Law (2005) Jan 195-199 by Pedro Nobuyuki Urashima

                    in The Modern Law Review by Richard Stacey 

                    on the British Association of Comparative Law blog by Joel Cólon-Ríos                                                                                                                

                                                                                  Articles

'Judicial Review, Ouster Clauses, and the Democratic Credentials of the Judiciary in the United Kingdom' forthcoming with Legal Studies - accepted March 2025 

'The Science of Accountability' forthcoming with Judicial Review – accepted February 2025

‘Public Functions of Political Parties' Forthcoming with the Modern Law Review – accepted November 2024

‘The Impact of Federalism on Secession Referendums: Comparing Scotland and Québec’ (2023) 34 King’s Law Journal (Special Issue on Referendums) Keith Ewing and Chris McCorkindale (eds) 321-339

‘The Case for Supermajority Requirements in Referendums’ with Matt Qvortrup (2023) 21 International Journal of Constitutional Law 187-204

‘Schmitt, Dicey, and the Power and Limits of Referendums in the United Kingdom’ with Matt Qvortrup (2022) 42 Legal Studies 396-407

‘Are Referendums Directly Democratic?’ (2020) 40 OJLS 425-448

‘Legislating for Referendums in the United Kingdom’ (2020) Public Law 49-56

                                                                            Chapters

‘Precedent as Paradigm: Thomas Kuhn on Science and the Common Law’ with Peter Hatfield in Endicott, Kristijánsson, and Lewis (eds) The Philosophical Foundations of Precedent (OUP 2023) 89-100

‘Brexit and Two Roles for Referendums in the United Kingdom’ in Richard Stacey and Richard Albert (eds) The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums (OUP 2022) 183-201

‘Referendums and New Labour’s Constitutional Reforms’ in Adam Tucker and Michael Gordon (eds) The New Labour Constitution: Twenty Years On (Hart 2022) 200-224