COMMONS

MPs to hear from academics on prospects for codifying – or not codifying – the UK’s constitution

11 January 2012

The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee will take evidence on the feasibility and desirability of codifying the UK’s unwritten constitution.

Date and time: Thursday 12th January 2012 at 10.00am
Place: Wilson Room, Portcullis House

Witnesses: Professor Linda Colley, Professor of History, Princeton University, and Dr John Allison, Senior Lecturer in Law, Cambridge University

The purpose of this session is to discuss the way in which the UK constitution has developed and how it has been perceived over the last 300 years, to inform, and provide context for, the Committee’s ongoing deliberations on prospects for codification of the UK constitution.