Lori Ringhand, Fulbright Scholar and visiting scholar here at the School of Law, University of Aberdeen has written a guest blog post for the Election Law blog.
A report issued by a UK Parliamentary committee generated headlines this week for its scathing takedown of Facebook’s data management practices. The report,…
In this post Dr. Heather Green, Senior Lecturer, considers the law setting the franchise for the referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union, which takes place on 23 June 2016.
Mrs Thatcher’s government was the first to legislate for expatriate voting rights, creating rules in the Representation of…
Four voters from Orkney and Shetland raised a court challenge after May’s general election, claiming that their MP, Alistair Carmichael, had breached election law by falsely denying complicity in the leak of a memo that suggested Nicola Sturgeon was secretly hoping for a Conservative victory. I wrote on the Scottish…
