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Thai Democracy on the Move

Professor Sebastian Payne

Brief Biography
Sebastian Payne is President of the UK Constitutional Law Association (UKCLA),

a Senior Lecturer in Law at Kent Law School, Barrister of the Inner Temple,

Trustee of the Constitution Society and an Associate Fellow of the Royal United
Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI, Whitehall, London).
As well as publishing on the law relating to terrorism he is Editor, with Professor

Maurice Sunkin, of The Nature of the Crown (Oxford University Press, 1999).

His most recent publication looks at the role of the UK Supreme Court in the
context of the unwritten constitution (Payne, S. , ‘The Supreme Court and
the Miller Case: More Reasons Why the UK Needs a Written Constitution’,

August 2018, The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of Interna-

tional Affairs).
He has been invited as an expert to give evidence on the royal pre-
rogative, war powers and constitutional reform to several Select Committees

at the Westminster Parliament:

House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee,
17th October 2013. Parliament’s role in conflict decisions: an update
House of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee,

31st March 2011. Parliament’s role in conflict decisions. 8th Report of
ประวัติวิทยากรเวทีอภิปราย (ต่างประเทศ)
Session 2010-12. HC 923
Joint Committee on the Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill. 21st May
2008. Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill. Report of Session 2007-08. HL

Papers 166. HC Papers 551.

House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution, 7th December
2005. Waging war: Parliament’s role and responsibility. 15th Report of
Session 2005-06 HL Papers 236.