Leah Trueblood

Biography

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

I completed my DPhil at 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 is at the intersection of political theory and public law. I am particularly interested in referendums, democratic legitimacy, the concept of representation, and the role of science in democracy. My work has been featured by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Discover Magazine, and the Guardian.

Publications

Recent additions

L Trueblood, Referendums, Representation, and the Constitution (Hart 2021)
L Trueblood, 'Judicial and Scientific Independence ' (2021) Constitution Society of London
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)

Internet Publication (6)

L Trueblood, 'Judicial and Scientific Independence ' (2021) Constitution Society of London

L Trueblood, ''Following the Science:' A Legal and Democratic Challenge' (2020) UKCLA

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, 'Referendums, Compromise, and Ratification' (2016) UKCLA

Book (1)

L Trueblood, Referendums, Representation, and the Constitution (Hart 2021)

Journal Article (3)

L Trueblood, 'Are Referendums Directly Democratic?' (2020) 40 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 425

P Hatfield and L Trueblood, 'SETI and Democracy' (2020) Acta Astronautica (forthcoming)

L Trueblood, 'Legislating for Referendums in the United Kingdom' (2020) Public Law 49

Chapter (2)

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)