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Assisted Dying: No such Bill could be introduced in Senedd Cymru, or maybe it could?

Assisted Dying: No such Bill could be introduced in Senedd Cymru, or maybe it could?

Posted on 18 February 2025 by Wales Governance Centre

Emyr Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Law at Aberystwyth University, gave evidence to the legislation committee about Wales-specific aspects of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill in their last […]

Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Wales’s Political Nonconformist

Lord Dafydd Elis-Thomas: Wales’s Political Nonconformist

Posted on 10 February 2025 by Wales Governance Centre

Dafydd Elis Thomas was a remarkable person and a unique politician and I'm not sure we'll see a politician like him again, but I really hope we do as it'll mean that his vision of a different Wales has been realised.

Location of Aberystwyth (on the Moon) Bill

Location of Aberystwyth (on the Moon) Bill

Posted on 8 December 2023 by Wales Governance Centre

This is a guest post by Professor Emyr Lewis When teaching public law at Aberystwyth University, I illustrate the legislative supremacy of the UK Parliament through an imaginary Act which […]

Getting the balance right? The constitutional implications of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill

Getting the balance right? The constitutional implications of the Welsh Tax Acts etc. (Power to Modify) Bill

Posted on 18 January 2022 by Wales Governance Centre

This extended article is a guest post by Professor Emyr Lewis, Head of the Department of Law and Criminology at Aberystwyth University, and a former Senior Fellow in Welsh Law […]

Reasonableness the Welsh Way

Reasonableness the Welsh Way

Posted on 11 June 2020 by Wales Governance Centre

This is a guest post by Professors Emyr Lewis and Ryszard Piotrowicz. During the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, the four countries of the UK operated under very similar rules, at least until […]

First Minister drafts opposition leaders to help with Covid crisis

First Minister drafts opposition leaders to help with Covid crisis

Posted on 2 April 2020 by Wales Governance Centre

This post was written by Nye Davies and Luke Nicholas The First Minister’s decision to draft the leaders of the two largest opposition parties into his Cabinet Core Group is […]