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

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L Trueblood, Referendums, Representation, and the Constitution (Hart 2021)
L Trueblood, ''Following the Science:' a Legal and Democratic Challenge' (2020) UKCLA
L Trueblood, 'Are Referendums Directly Democratic?' (2020) Oxford Journal of Legal Studies
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 49
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]