More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown: share.google/NSWTG5JNYMrz...

Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...

I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.

Have you read the latest issue of the ICLQ? All articles are fully #OpenAccess. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My article on how British police monitor social tensions and surveil communities to ensure they don’t protest is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"There are few more serious and consequential charges than terrorism. Even if protestors avoid jail, a successful prosecution for terrorist offences is likely to hover over them for years to come". @illanwall.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

We have just released 1st report of our legal observers network, following Garda use of force at protest on the 04/10/25 at the port tunnel. We had 7 observers there, whogathered significant evidence of the Gardai's actions on the day. The full report is available here. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

I love this booklet so much! Still trying to figure out how to include it in my land law module 😂

The Land for the People Third Edition, a workbook by Eimear Walshe, commissioned by the National Sculpture Factory. €5 including postage, buy your copy here - buy.stripe.com/4gw6rpbyw0sb... 📷 Simon Curran

👋 Introducing Loughborough Law: a brand new law school bringing a critical and inter-disciplinary approach to legal research + teaching. Follow this page for updates on our research and upcoming events. @khorsey.bsky.social @clairq.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social @maireadenright.bsky.social

I'm so happy that this is now live. We have a new book series, edited by Henrique Carvalho, Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Daniel Matthews and I. Bristol University Press have been a dream to work with, so please do send in your proposals criticallegalthinking.com/2025/10/10/n...

Thiessen having a good chuckle about his fired liberal colleagues - some of whom he worked with for 15 years - is a good reminder that token conservatives at mainstream news outlets are/were there to destroy them, not to contribute to them.

"I would smear the bejaysus out of her, simply because you've nothing to lose... you've got to create a fear... in my experience, nothing works like negative campaigning." They're really openly saying the quiet part out loud now aren't they...🤔

Ive put my piece on Bolivian constitutional experiments (particularly the experiments with a paradoxical separation of powers) up onto SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Delighted that Jo Bluen's post is now available in Japanese: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/09/24/t...

Netpol's 'State of Protest' report for 2024 launched with a stark title: ‘This is Repression’. On the second anniversary of the continuing genocide in Gaza, it is hard to know what we will call our assessment of protest rights for 2025. Perhaps ‘An End to Our Illusions’? netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...

In which I explore how changes in state-level public higher ed governance during the neoliberal era opened space for more recent authoritarian crackdowns. lpeproject.org/blog/the-neo...

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

Leave aside the Connolly campaign. Consider all the people who go through garda vetting. That is a significant bloc of the population- volunteer parents helping kids in sports, at scouts, in charities. Will that police data leak if the Gardaí want to intervene in a political campaign in the future?

this is HUGE!!!

Tear gas is such a terrible chemical weapon it is banned in warfare. Many don't realise it comes in different strengths. If there are suffocation cases then this is likely CS in high concentrations, or CN. CN is the most intense & destructive tear gas. It chemically burns eyes & results in deaths

Delighted to have my work on affective tension monitoring and the internal security apparatus accepted in Social and Legal Studies. This is the pre-print version. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Delighted to have my work on affective tension monitoring and the internal security apparatus accepted in Social and Legal Studies. This is the pre-print version. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

If you are interested in submitting to the issue, please send an expression of interest including an abstract to the editors by Friday 31st October 2025. Editors: Matilda Arvidsson ([email protected]) Nicola Barker ([email protected]) Loveday Hodson ([email protected])

As the videos of Defend our juries arrests over the civil disobedience against the proscription of Palestine action, this short explainer in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social might be helpful: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

Brilliant new special issue of Law and Critique available on Memory Politics: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Well don't I feel stupid

Bubblebubblebubblebubblebubble Folks it’s a bubble.

Kneecap's Mo Chara case has been dismissed! Massive blow to the government!

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives. Details below. Please share.

My English wife was amazed the first time I turned to my (mixed-gender) family and said 'lads, should we get going?'

In Hiberno-English, the plural form "lads" is non-gender-specific, like "ils" in French. Sometimes plural vs singular forms add valuable context as well as just indicating numbers: the way "I have to wash my hand" sounds worse than "I have to wash my hands", for example.

Anyone with an interesting Postdoc idea related to critical legal theory, law/exception, public order, policing, strikes or critical engagements with human rights, drop me a line. The timeline is short on this (23rd of Oct) but its well worth applying: www.researchireland.ie/funding/gove...

On the incredibly sad news of Conor Gearty's passing: dflw.ie/on-the-passi...

Back to the grindstone - teaching starts this week in Galway.

Critical legal conference bound…

"Cycling alone isn’t going to remedy Ireland’s shocking happiness and mental and physical health scores, but the Dutch are getting plenty right, it seems." www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Delighted to have Ricardo Sanin's latest piece, developing his philosophy in new directions, with a compelling engagement with Quentin Meillassoux's Hyper-chaos: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/08/28/f...

This looks really superb from Jamal Nabulsi! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In case you missed this, Nathan Moore on AI: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/31/s...

Autocracy in Hungary (latest): Orban's Soviet-reminiscent "Office for the Defence of Sovereignty" is targeting a law professor (for 1st time tbomk) for the "crime" of speaking at a roundtable on what could happen should the opposition win the next parliamentary elections... telex.hu/belfold/2025...

the whole world is against this now. stop the annihilation. stop the starvation.

The more I think about this, the more furious it makes me. There is obviously for most of us basically no point in applying - it's not an effective use of time. But if we stop, our employers will basically use it as the excuse to kill off the ability for most of us to do research... 1/

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

“This is not about a formal famine declaration or a special number of trucks or meals. It’s about Israel’s attempt to starve #Gaza indefinitely without the rapid mass death from starvation... This... cannot last... though the consequences of starvation can.' www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Unanimous (!) Advisory Opinion on climate change obligations from the International Court of Justice. www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

"Last year, the Knesset approved a similar motion for the agenda opposing a Palestinian state that passed 68-9." Incredible how long American discussions of Israel/Palestine centered the theoretical logistics of a 2-state solution, ignoring the expansionist/genocidal project happening on the ground