Dr Michael Lane

About

The UPR is my primary area of interest. I have been researching and working on the UPR since 2019 when I started my PhD on the UK's UPR. Since then, I have published widely on the UPR. My recent book on the UPR, 'The Universal Periodic Review and the UK: State Practice and Constitutional Actors' (Bristol University Press, 2026), further develops my PhD research. It advances a dual-perspective assessment of the UPR: the ‘external’ perspective, which focuses on a state’s practice at the UPR, and the ‘internal’ perspective, which examines the influence of the UPR on the executive, legislature and judiciary.

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