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Leah Trueblood is a Research Fellow at Worcester College and a former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, University of Oxford. She holds a D.Phil in Law from Oxford, supported by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, following studies at the University of Alberta (Philosophy, TD Canada Trust Scholar) and London School of Economics (Law). Her research focuses on public law, constitutional theory, and democratic legitimacy, emphasizing referendums as instruments of representative democracy rather than direct citizen governance.
Her monograph Referendums as Representative Democracy (2024) challenges conventional views of referendums, arguing they should guide representatives rather than replace them. Key research interests include constitutional design, political parties' roles, and judicial accountability. She has published widely in Legal Studies, Modern Law Review, and International Journal of Constitutional Law, with work analyzing secession referendums, supermajority requirements, and the interplay between federalism and democratic processes.
Trueblood has received prestigious awards including the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship and TD Canada Trust National Scholarship. Her contributions extend to legal education, teaching constitutional law and administrative law at Oxford. She actively participates in interdisciplinary projects, such as linking Thomas Kuhn's scientific paradigms to legal precedent.
