The Constitution Society is pleased to announce our contributing writers for 2026/27. Over the coming year our group of authors will provide analysis, commentary and insight on a range of developments in the UK constitution. We’re excited to showcase their writing here, and whether you’re a long-time follower of the blog or newly interested, we hope you’ll find plenty to get your teeth into.
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Our 2026/27 contributing writers are:
Dr Sarah Nason is Reader in Law at Bangor University. Her research focuses on constitutional and administrative law, judicial review, and administrative justice, with particular expertise in the constitutional development of Wales and questions of access to justice. She serves on the Wales Advisory Committee to the Law Commission, is Co-Chair of the Great Britain and Ireland Chapter of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S), and is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Public Law and co-author of its Current Survey.
Dr David Jeffery is a senior lecturer in British politics at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Whatever Happened to Tory Liverpool and has published widely on a range of topics relevant to British politics, both in an academic and journalistic context. David is also a convenor of the Political Studies Association’s Conservatism Studies Group and Politics and History specialist group. He is currently working on a textbook titled Understanding UK Local Government.
Dr Darryn Nyatanga is a constitutional law scholar whose research focuses on executive power, devolution, and constitutional change in the United Kingdom. He holds a PhD from the University of Liverpool.
Ananya Kumar-Banerjee is a Lincoln’s Inn Lord Denning Scholar and current BVS student. Before earning her GDL from City, University of London, she studied at Yale (BA) and Oxford (MSt English). She has written for the UK Admin Court Blog, the UK Constitutional Law Association, Strasbourg Observers and for the University of Oxford’s Border Criminologies Blog. Previously, Ananya performed litigation research at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and at Detention Action.
Dr Gareth Evans is a Lecturer in Law at Swansea University where he teaches constitutional law, legal systems, and the law of devolution in Wales. His research focusses on the devolution settlement in Wales and he has been published in several academic journals on elements of public law and territorial governance. Alongside his work at Swansea, Gareth holds positions on research and legal education committees at the Society of Legal Scholars and the Learned Society of Wales.
Peter Heaton-Jones served as an MP for two terms from 2015, standing down in 2019. He was parliamentary private secretary to the lord chancellor and the secretary of state at the Department for Work & Pensions. Peter graduated with a BA in Sociology from London University followed by a post-graduate qualification in journalism, after which he had a 20-year career as a broadcaster, editor and media adviser in the public and private sectors.
Kate Dewsnip is a Graduate Teaching Fellow and PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool School of Law and Social Justice. Her research focuses on emergency legislation, specifically the legislative scrutiny of emergency laws. She obtained her LLB from the University of Liverpool in 2017 and her LLM from the University of Cambridge in 2018. Kate is a non-practising barrister, having been called to the Bar by the Honourable Society of Inner Temple in 2019. Prior to beginning her PhD she worked in legal practice for two years.
Dr Mark Bennister is an experienced academic researching comparative political leadership, prime ministerial power, governance, public policy, and accountability in parliament. He is a Visiting Reader at Queen Mary, University of London, an Affiliate Research Fellow at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and Honorary Senior Fellow, University of Lincoln.
Dr Stuart Wallace is an Associate Professor at the University of Leeds where he teaches constitutional law and international human rights law. Prior to joining the faculty in Leeds, he worked as a Lecturer and Director of Studies at Homerton College, Cambridge and as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge lecturing on civil liberties and human rights. Dr Wallace has also held posts at the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court prior to entering academia.
Tasneem Ghazi is a PhD student at the UCL Faculty of Laws. Tasneem previously completed the Barrister Training Course while working part-time as a research assistant at the Constitution Unit. In 2021, she interned at the Institute for Government and at the UK in a Changing Europe. Tasneem holds an MA in History from King’s College London, and an LLB in Politics, Philosophy and Law.
Professor Colin Talbot is Emeritus Professor of Government, University of Manchester. He also has relationships with the Cambridge Judge Business School and the Federal Trust. Colin has worked extensively with all levels of British government and public services, including being an advisor to two House of Commons Select Committees and appearing as an expert witness over two dozen times in both Houses of Parliament, the Scottish Parliament, and the Welsh Assembly. He has also advised more than a dozen other governments, from the USA to Japan.
Thanks for reading and we hope to bring you much more over the coming year.
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