Event recording | Putney Debates 2021 (session one)
The first session of Putney Debates 2021 discussed the models of national unity, including the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Spain, and Italy.
19/02/2023
Putney Debates 2021: The Unity of the UK
Professor Sionaidh Douglas-Scott’s lecture considers the unity and disunity of the UK. It discusses the diverse histories of the four nations of the UK and what it means to characterize the UK as a ‘union’ rather than a ‘unitary’ State.
18/02/2023
Bogdan Iancu
Bogdan Iancu Fellow Bogdan Iancu is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bucharest. His teaching and writing focus on Romanian and comparative constitutional law, EU constitutionalism and emerging rule of law conditionalities,
02/02/2026
Putney Debates 2021: The Unity of Spain
Spain has suffered in the last two decades a very high separation tension. In this lecture, professor Roberto Galán-Vioque explains what happened in Spain and what caused its separatist tensions.
18/02/2023
Putney Debates 2021: The Unity of Italy
In this lecture, professor Francesco Bilancia discusses the constitutional contemporary architecture of the Italian State-regions relations as implemented by the 1999 constitutional reform.
18/02/2023