Mark Elliott

Legal scholar

The past few years have seen constitutional vandalism. Mark Elliott, chair of the Cambridge law faculty, former adviser to parliament’s Constitution Committee and author of the blog Public Law for Everyone, has offered indispensable analysis of the Tories’ alarming project to tear up the Human Rights Act, undermine the judicial review of illegal government decisions and violate international law by reneging on the Brexit treaty.

For UK constitutional experts Elliott’s work is a must read. He has shown that you can remain signed up to rights in principle while making it far harder to enforce them in practice—and do immense damage in the process.