The journal

Long reading for the long argument.

Published quarterly, the Lex Meridian Journal collects essays from our faculty and visiting practitioners. It is sent to alumni by post, and read here besides.

Featured essay

From this term.

Constitutional

On the quiet death of parliamentary sovereignty.

A doctrine half-deferred to and half-abandoned cannot long survive in either form. What we now call sovereignty is, more honestly, a polite fiction.

Dame Cordelia Ashbourne KC · Trinity Term · 2026 · 12 min read

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From the archive

Selected essays.

Corporate
Drafting in an age of artificial intelligence.
Ravi Subramanian · Trinity '26
8 min read
Advocacy
What a closing speech still owes to Cicero.
Sir Edmund Halloway KC · Trinity '26
10 min read
Human Rights
Strasbourg, twenty-five years on.
Naomi Adesanya · Hilary '26
14 min read
International
Treaty interpretation and the lost art of context.
Margaret Ainsworth KC · Hilary '26
9 min read
Constitutional
Three judgments worth re-reading this summer.
Editorial Board · Hilary '26
6 min read
Pedagogy
Why we still mark by hand.
The Principal · Michaelmas '25
5 min read

Long reading for the long argument.

From this term.

On the quiet death of parliamentary sovereignty.

Selected essays.

Drafting in an age of artificial intelligence.

What a closing speech still owes to Cicero.

Strasbourg, twenty-five years on.

Treaty interpretation and the lost art of context.

Three judgments worth re-reading this summer.

Why we still mark by hand.