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A new Legal-Phi interview is out! We spoke with Alma Diamond about how practices shape obligations, constitutional meaning, and much more. Check it out 👇https://legalphi.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/alma-diamond-practices-obligations-and-constitutions/

Goodbye old office

Wondrous ambiguity... @scottwortley.bsky.social

I had a very similar experience to Mark and I am also appalled by this change (as well as by the drastic cuts to PhD funding by universities). I would not be an academic now were it not for the AHRC funding my doctorate. Academia should not return to being the preserve of those with wealth parents.

Safe to go in, or not? @scottwortley.bsky.social

If you would like to come to our conference "25 years of the HRA" on 18 September you can get tickets here - www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...

Looking forward to this!

Conference uploading....

For fans of legislative intention. Max Radin nods

I'm very happy to share that, after 12.5 years teaching at the University of Edinburgh, this September I'll be moving to the Public Law team at the University of Glasgow. I'm honoured to be joining such a great team of scholars in this amazing Law School, and I'm looking forward to this new chapter.

Looking forward to the 2025 Legal Theory Festival at the University of Edinburgh @legaltheoryed.bsky.social. I’ll be presenting a paper entitled ‘Interpretation as Collaboration’. Thanks to @philosophy-law.bsky.social for the invite!

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On 2 June, the @houseofcommons.parliament.uk will collaborate with scholars incl our members @ucllaws.bsky.social, @durham-university.bsky.social & @uodroitpublaw.bsky.social on a workshop on the role of politicians & parliamentary personnel in sustaining the unwritten dimension of constitutionalism

Looks like a fabulous set of events for this year's Legal Theory Festival. The programme is available here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/.... Please repost and share widely!

Publication day! 'The Principle of Legality: A Moral Theory' is now out in the world. Perfect for your undergraduate public law reading lists and children's birthday presents. Feeling immensely grateful to friends and colleagues for the years of support during the writing of this. <3

Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.

US-based scholar friends: could you help me find a soft copy of Comment [Marc Perman], ‘Statutory Interpretation in California: Individual Testimony as an Extrinsic Aid’ (1981) 15 U San Francisco L Rev 241? Many thanks!

This is a thread of my favourite ever literal translations, starting with this one… In Greek, the word for a protest, εύπιστος, translates literally to “anger parade”

Our Centre Director, Amalia Amaya, has just published her article on ‘Exemplary Arguers (For Example, in Law)’ in Topoi: An International Review of Philosophy 🎊🎉. In this work, Amalia examines the relevance of exemplarity to virtue argumentation theory in law. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Our annual Call for Abstracts is out! We really look forward to reading about your fascinating research as we select the speakers for our 2025/2026 Seminar Series. Also, feel free to share this call with your friends and colleagues. You can find more details (including deadlines) below:

Very much looking forward to this!

25 Years of the Human Rights Act at @lawatleeds.bsky.social essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/events/e...

Our Director, Prof Amalia Amaya, has recently published 'The Virtues of Disagreement and the Perils of Judicial Deliberation' in the edited collection Judicial Character in Hard Times: On the Role of Judicial Virtues in Defending the Rule of Law (Edward Elgar 2025) www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/jud... 🥳🎉

Our next *Collective Discussion* is coming up! Eva Yguico will be joining us to discuss her draft, 'Persons, Patients, and Punishment' on the 18th of March at 12noon EST. Join our mailing list for zoom link and draft (sent out week before).

So I will own being the primary author of the first part of this. It is, by any measure, the harshest criticism I have ever directed at anyone. I did not want to write it, but felt compelled to do so by a truly egregious failure on the part of Wurman and Barnett to practice what they have preached.

Delighted to get a hard copy of the King’s Law Journal featuring a book symposium on The Collaborative Constitution @cambup-law.bsky.social with brilliant comments by Lord Sales (UK SC), Grégoire Webber, Gavin Phillipson, Stephen Gardbaum & @vanessamacdonnell.bsky.social. Thank you all!

Just read an anecdote about a clause in a lease stating that the tenant must “make a reasonable amount of noise at all times” @scottwortley.bsky.social

Get following the best initiative in legal philosophy in…er…ever!

Collective Discussions 2025 Winter Term are about to start! First up: Priscila Andrade on the 18th of Feb with her wip 'Precedent and Legal Change' Join our mailing list to attend: collectivewlp.wixsite.com/home

🚨🚨 So five years since #brexit and I think it is time reshare Daniel Hannan's absolutely insane and delusional vision of grandeur and hubris that characterised the true engineers and believers of #brexit. Here comes the #brexit insanity No 1 🧵 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

This is today!

On Feb 13 Tanya Serisier and Jinal Dadiya will be joining us at @uoelawschool.bsky.social to launch my book It’s a hybrid event and you can register here www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Over the course of this week the @ukcla.bsky.social will publish the fantastic contributions to an event I organised in July last year. Below you can find my introduction to the series. I will use this thread to highlight the individual posts. It should be of interest not just to lawyers, but to /1

Looking forward to this!

Our next legal theory event is this Thursday (30th January) at 3-5pm when Tanja Porčnik (Universität Hamburg) will give a seminar on 'Human-AI Interactions in Law-making: Legal Subjectivity and a Right to Human Decision-Making'. See here for details: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/.... Come join us!

A great line-up of events!

Rings true

David Lynch ☹️

Hello Bluesky! The UK Labour Law Blog just created an account here! Please share and follow us.

Academic resolution for 2025: to avoid being "content to rebut or refute without troubling to look behind the mistake for the confusion ([or] the mix of insight and confusion) that generated the mistake."

So farewell then, 2024. As Rachel so aptly put it, the year of unpleasant surprises. You won’t be missed.

For me too

Brisbane!

I don’t know about being ‘the one’, but this piece (by - full disclosure - a current and a former colleague) is off-the-scale brilliant, and should IMO be much more widely read. It’s a paradigm of scholarship. (Argumentation (2016) 33 359)

Perth done! Next stop: Canberra.

Singapore done! Next stop: Perth (and, no, not *that* one)

Singapore!