Books

Tom Daly & Brian Christopher Jones, “Parties v Democracy: Addressing Today’s Political-Party threats to Democratic Rule” in Tom Ginsburg, Aziz Z Huq and Tarunabh Khaitan, The Entrenchment of Democracy: The Comparative Constitutional Design of Elections, Parties and Voting (2024).  

Brian Christopher Jones, “A (Brief) Case Against Constitutional Supremacy” in R Johnson & YY Zhu, Sceptical Perspectives on the Changing Constitution of the United Kingdom (Hart, 2023). 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Court Criticism and the Rule of Law: From ‘Foreign’ to ‘Dinosaur’ Judges” in BC Jones (ed), Democracy and Rule of Law in China’s Shadow (Hart 2021)

Brian Christopher Jones & Yen-Tu Su, “Confrontational Contestation and Democratic Compromise: The Sunflower Movement and Its Aftermath” in BC Jones (ed), Law and Politics of the Taiwan Sunflower and Hong Kong Umbrella Movement (Routledge) 2017

Brian Christopher Jones, ‘The Recent Civil Disobedience Fidelity to Law’ (2025) The Political Quarterly (Advanced Access)

Brian Sheppard, Andrew Moshirnia, Charles A Sullivan & Brian Christopher Jones, “We Give Laws a Bad Name: An Empirical Examination of How Misleading Law and PAC Names Pollute Legal Perception” (2024) 12 (3) Texas A&M Law Review 1233

Brian Christopher Jones & Maartje De Visser, “The Constitution as Symbol or Operating Manual: A Rejoinder on Constitutional Literacy” (2024) Constitutional Studies 143

Brian Christopher Jones, "Constitutionalism’s Wrong Turn: Legal Rather than Political Supremacy’ (2023) 38(2) Constitutional Commentary

Maartje De Visser and Brian Christopher Jones, "Unpacking Constitutional Literacy” (2023) 13(1) Global Constitutionalism 29 

Brian Christopher Jones, “The Legal Contribution to Democratic Disaffection” (2023) 75(4) Arkansas Law Review 813

Brian Christopher Jones, “Surprisingly (Un)Inspiring Judicial Decisions” (2023) Illinois Law Review Online

Brian Christopher Jones, “Judicial Review and Embarrassment” (April 2022) Public Law 179-88 

 Brian Christopher Jones, “Our Forgotten Constitutional Guardians: Preserving Respect for the Law” (2021) 42(1) Statute Law Review 1-19  

 Tom Gerald Daly & Brian Christopher Jones, “Parties v Democracy: Addressing Today’s Political-Party threats to Democratic Rule” (2020) 18(2) International Journal of Constitutional Law 509-538

Brian Christopher Jones, “Constitutional paternalism: the rise and problematic use of constitutional guardian rhetoric” (2019) 51 NYU Journal of International Law & Politics 773

Brian Christopher Jones, “The Rule of Law in UK Public Law Textbooks: from Critique to Acceptance?” (Oct 2018) Public Law 594-604

 Brian Christopher Jones, “Dissonant Constitutionalism and Lady Hale” (2018) 29(2) King’s Law Journal 177-186 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Constitutions and Bills of Rights: Invigorating or Placating Democracy?” (2018) 38(3) Legal Studies 339-359

Brian Christopher Jones and Austin Sarat, “Justices as Sacred Symbols: Antonin Scalia and the Cultural Life of the Law” (2017) 6(1) British Journal of American Legal Studies 7-24

Brian Christopher Jones, “Disparaging the Supreme Court, Part II: Questioning Institutional Legitimacy” (2016) Wisconsin Law Review 239-261 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Preliminary Warnings on ‘Constitutional’ Idolatry” (January 2016) Public Law 74-92

Brian Christopher Jones, “Assessing the Constitutionality of Legislation: Constitutional Review in Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan” (2015) 23(2) Asia Pacific Law Review 37-62

Brian Christopher Jones & Yen-Tu Su, “Confrontational Contestation and Democratic Compromise: The Sunflower Movement and Its Aftermath” (2015) 45(1) Hong Kong Law Journal 193-210

Brian Christopher Jones, “Interpreting Acronyms & Epithets” (2014) 25 Stanford Law & Policy Review Online 1-8

Brian Christopher Jones, "Nigel Farage and the UK constitution" (2 February 2024), UK Constitutional Law Association Blog

Brian Christopher Jones, "Leadership exit points in the UK constitution" (5 June 2023), UK Constitutional Law Association Blog

Brian Christopher Jones, “The emerging ‘Nothing to See Here’ judicial review defences” (7 July 2022), UK Constitutional Law Association Blog

Brian Christopher Jones, “Perhaps the Only Thing Worthy of Veneration: Brevity” (12 June 2022) Balkinization

Brian Christopher Jones & Maartje De Visser, “The Complex Relationship between Constitutional Idolatry, Literacy and Identity” (28 January 2021) International Association of Constitutional Law Blog 

Brian Christopher Jones, “A single written UK constitution may only make things worse” (25 May 2020) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Forms of Constitutional Idolatry” (22 May 2020) Balkinization. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “The Widely Ignored and Underdeveloped Problem with Judicial Power” (25 February 2020) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Wightman and How Not to Advance the Law” (11 April 2018) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “When Court Criticism Threatens the Rule of Law: A Three-Part Test” (5 September 2018) International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “The Government’s Quandary: ‘Great’, or Ordinary, Repeal” (28 March 2017) UK Constitutional Law Association Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Where do Justice Ginsburg and Justice Hale—and Judicial Independence—Go from Here?” (30 November 2016) International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Did Brexit Save the HRA 1998?” (26 September 2016) Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Do All Democracies Need Party Dissolution Mechanisms?” (8 June 2016) International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog

Brian Christopher Jones, “Final thoughts on (a potential) Brexit: Imposing (and accepting) constraints on sovereignty” (5 June 2016), Columbia Journal of European Law – Preliminary Reference. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Brexit, rights, and the (potential) scrapping of the HRA” (18 March 2016) Oxford Human Rights Hub Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “A Middle Ground for Democratic Accountability: Retention Elections for the House of Lords?” (23 December 2015) International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Britain’s Other—Perhaps More Important—Anniversary” (2 Nov 2015) International Association of Constitutional Law Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “How Far Out of Step is the United States Supreme Court?" (23 September 2015) International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog. 

Brian Christopher Jones, “Is Social Media a Human Right: Exploring the Scope of Internet Rights” (December 2014) International Journal of Constitutional Law Blog.