The Quill Project

We work to research the history and enhance understanding of some of the world's foundational legal texts.

If it is your first time here and you would like to know more about the project, please check out the introduction video below:

For more information see the pages on the Pembroke College Oxford website.

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Intro to the nature of formal negotiations and how they are modelled

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What are

Negotiated 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.

Quill Team?

Dr Nicholas Cole

Nicholas is a Senior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, University of Oxford.

Aside from the Quill Project, which he directs, he studies the political thought of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

Dr Alfie Abdul-Rahman

Alfie is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics, King's College London.

Her research interests include information visualization, human-computer interaction, user-centered design and more.

Ruth Murray

Ruth is the Quill Project Administrator and graduated from The Queen's College in Oxford.

She has had experience in a variety of administrative roles in Oxford University, most recently at the Changing Character of War Centre.

Lauren Davis Jarnach

Lauren is a senior documentary editor with Quill.

She is responsible for collating new materials for the Quill platform and ensuring common standards across the whole portfolio of Quill projects.

Annabel Harris

Annabel is a documentary editor with Quill on the Writing Peace project. She joined Quill in October 2021

She previously worked on the Civil Rights Amendments project, particularly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments.

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Negotiated Texts Seminar on Article 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Convention

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Convention

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Printing and Clerks

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Preamble and Declaration of Rights

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Legislative Department, Distribution of Powers and Apportionment

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Executive, Impeachment and Removal from Office

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Judiciary

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Judiciary

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Suffrage and Elections

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Suffrage and Elections

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Public Service Corporations

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Federal Relations

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Labor

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Schedule, Mode of Amending and Miscellaneous

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Ordinance

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee on Style, Revision and Compilation

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee of the Whole

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Arizona Constitutional Convention (1910) [2023 Edition] Committee of the Whole

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PACT: Mini Models Negotiation of Article 39 in the Drafting Committee

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