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Welcome to the Quill Project home page. Here you can find more information about the project, what can be achieved on the platform and the team behind it.

We work to research the history and enhance understanding of some of the world's foundational legal texts.
A negotiated text is the product of a formal decision-making process where a text has been negotiated and drafted over a period of time.
Think of the process as made up of four elements — people, procedures, documents, and decisions.

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Other Research Areas

Many of Quill’s projects begin with an exploratory study to test the feasibility and added value of working on a full-scale digital edition. We have conducted pilot studies with help from student research assistants in the following areas and would be interested in seeking funding to produce full digital editions. The unfinished models are not currently publicly available, but if you would like to discuss these projects further or would like temporary access, please get in touch with us using the contact form, outlining your interest.

Modelling Brexit

In the years between the 2016 EU Membership Referendum and the UK’s actual exit from the EU in 2020, we conducted a pilot project that applied the Quill methodology to the parliamentary debates that led to the 2018 European Union (Withdrawal) Act, the 2019 European Union (Withdrawal) Act, and the 2020 European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Act. In addition to capturing parliamentary debate on a momentous event in UK politics, the Quill models of these negotiations capture Parliament’s use of exceptional procedures, such as the Committee of the Whole, an iteration of a bill’s committee stage employed in issues of ‘constitutional or ethical importance.’ Work on this project could be expanded to include the meaningful votes and other Brexit-relevant parliamentary acts.

THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE EVOLUTION OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW

Quill is currently seeking funding to pursue an ambitious research agenda with colleagues at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights to uncover and share the manifold array of different contributions, critiques, and alternatives that were considered during the decades which saw the birth of international human rights law, beginning with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1946 and extending through three major human rights treaties in the 1960s – the International Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).

DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE CITIZEN

Over a number of summers we had the privilege of partnering with the Maison Française d’Oxford and interns from French universities to carry out a pilot study, modelling the writing of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. This material offers an interesting counterpoint to our work on Revolution-era American constitutional writing, and we are interested in taking it forward into a full research project with a suitable partner institution in France.