Thank you to Markus Dubber and to all the contributors to this special issue. It’s a great honour to have so much engagement with my book.

I know this isn’t always readily apparent, but I am in fact an internationally significant historian of the jury system. And I’ve just published a new article, looking at jury speech in the twentieth century, and what it can tell us about the jury’s historic role as a political institution.

Congratulations to Professor Chloë Kennedy, whose book 'Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law' has been shortlisted for the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize by the Socio-Legal Studies Association 🎉 Read more: https://edin.ac/4axCAfP

I'm very excited to share my new book's cover design: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... It is bloodstain-inspired because species-of-origin bloodstain testing is a big part of the story. Out on 15 April 2026 & Open Access as part of the Corpus Juris book series @cornellupress.bsky.social

Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026! Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025. Travel grants available.

Thanks to Tsachi Keren-Paz for this first (of which I’m aware) review of my book onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The latest Talking Legal History episode is up! Catherine Evans talks with @chloejskennedy.bsky.social about Kennedy’s book “Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law.” Take a listen to the fascinating conversation here: aslh.net/talking-lega...

A forum on my book! I am so grateful to all the contributors for their careful and thoughtful attention to this little book that has been my life for the last four years. It’s both thrilling and frightening to have it all out in the world.

Looking forward to speaking at this conference with @chloejskennedy.bsky.social among others! sites.google.com/view/truth-c...

Now available as a (potentially affordable) paperback www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

CfPs 'A feminist politics of radical hope' 4th joint #LEXConference. Details lexnetwork.org under #Events @gjikaphd.bsky.social @bsatheory.bsky.social @chloejskennedy.bsky.social @marthe.bsky.social @elenaloizidou.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social @hanelizqui.bsky.social 1/3

🚨🚨BOOK LAUNCH - INDUCING INTIMACY: DECEPTION, CONSENT AND THE LAW by @chloejskennedy.bsky.social @cambridgeup.bsky.social This is a hybrid event - in person and online tickets available via the link below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ 📍QMUL, Mile End (and hybrid) 📅 Wednesday 9 April,6 pm.

Join me on Monday 17 February at @edinburghup.bsky.social for a conversation with Prof Saul Takahashi on International Law and the Question of Palestine. Hybrid event. More info and registration here: llc.ed.ac.uk/internationa...

And here it is! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com/2025/02/14/k... Comments/engagement welcome through the blog.

This Friday, @chloejskennedy.bsky.social outlines the argument in her recent book, Inducing Intimacy: we should consult the genealogy of legal responses to deceptively induced sexual/romantic relationships when evaluating how the law regulates such conduct: criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com

Deadline tomorrow

An unnecessary but very gratefully received gift from @signetlibrary.bsky.social for giving a book talk there recently

Exciting to be commencing this research project on legal history and emotions with @chloejskennedy.bsky.social and @katieebarclay.bsky.social! www.abdn.ac.uk/law/news-eve...

Join us on 5 February at 4pm for a lecture by @pashukanist.bsky.social on international law, racism, and coloniality. Hosted by @uoelawschool.bsky.social and the Al-Waleed Centre. Register here: llc.ed.ac.uk/internationa...

My latest piece about gender fraud out today in the Modern Law Review onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Got your Galentine’s Day plans right here!

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/...

Two weeks to go (deadline Feb 12th)

Professor Chloë Kennedy has been awarded funding from the Leverhulme Trust for a new research project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project aims to understand which – and whose – emotions have received legal protection and for what reasons. Read more: edin.ac/4gWtIRQ

I’ll be doing a book talk on Jan 30 (6-8pm) in Edinburgh at the Signet Library. Sign up link here t.co/patuLkahDd

Come and work on a @leverhulme.bsky.social project about the history of ‘hurt feelings’ & the law with @katieebarclay.bsky.social Alice Krzanich and me! We’re looking for a historian of medicine (or similar) for a 4 yr postdoctoral research fellow position elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Just published: a fascinating piece of work by Jackie Simard — based on some of the doctoral research she did here at UoE Full article: The English Divorce Courts, non-physical ‘cruelty’ and ‘coercive control’ in wives’ petitions, 1857–1914

Law is a *system of reasoning*, as well as a *system of sources* Ultimately law is a discursive enterprise that depends upon one's capacity to reason, persuade and explain. It is dynamic and responsive. It does not give simple answers. And it is the antithesis of the black box

Too often I hear that students need to learn how to use gen AI because "it is the future." No. No it's not. And no they don't. We need to teach them *how* to reason, and *what* sources they must use. EXACTLY the things chatGPT cannot do, and will never do.

This looks great

Mark your calendars #legalhistory folks, on Dec. 11 6 pm (central) Catherine Evans (U of Toronto) and Barbara Welke (U of Minnesota) host an online discussion with Chlöe Kennedy about Kennedy's book, Inducing Intimacy (rsvp link to follow) doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Coming Tuesday, December 3, 2024, the Modern Criminal Law Review's inaugural issue: Reconstructing Criminal Law Revisited (Nicola Lacey, guest editor) Is there still space for a scholarship focused on critique oriented to reconstruction rather than abolition? crimlrev.net

Feminist Legal Studies (FLS) is now on Bluesky. FLS is committed to an international and interdisciplinary perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal practice. We publish material in a range of formats. Follow us! link.springer.com/journal/10691

Yes, grab the book in any format (or formats!) you can, then join us live on YouTube for the international symposium on it, followed by a Mod Crim L Rev Special Issue soon after! crimlrev.net/2024/11/04/i...

The Principal of Edinburgh University took a £20k pay rise this year. This week he announced that there would have to be job cuts. The level of tone deafness in the circumstances is absolutely staggering. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ve posted about this book a lot already but now it’s physically here its publication finally feels real. As luck would have it, there is some kind of problem with printing more copies 🙄 so if you’d like to order it please try again next week (I guess the e-book’s not affected)

I’ve put together a Criminal Law (Adjacent) Academics starter pack for anyone working on criminal law related topics. Let me know if you’d like to be added or be removed, and feel free to share this along to others who might be interested in following! go.bsky.app/sdCgVu

Looking forward to discussing my new book "Trust, Courts and Social Rights" @UCL on Thurs 21 Nov, 1-2:30pm, hosted by the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism, w/ @colmocinneide.bsky.social & @vmantouvalou.bsky.social commenting. Thanks @efieldingd.bsky.social & Jeff King for inviting me.

Universities themselves have internalised the language of "employable skills" and "average starting salaries", and have stopped making the case that we are humans and citizens, not just future inputs into GDP. I've had a go at that case here: threadreaderapp.com/thread/11807...

A short talk with our colleague Lisa Cowan blogs.ed.ac.uk/edinburghleg...

Looking forward to this!

It’s e-publication day for my book! I’ll be doing a few talks - 3 in Scotland over winter, one in London in the spring (and another in Scotland) and one in the US (online) in December. I’ll try to post details here

I've created a Legal History starter pack as I don't think anyone else has and it seems like the type of thing we should have. I'm sure I missed people (apologies!), so hit me up if I have: go.bsky.app/XJxJpA

After a delay due to a cyber-hacking incident at CUP my book has finally gone to press. You can get 20% off by using code KENNEDY24 at checkout

I’m happy to say that I’ll be promoted to Professor of Law and History this summer

You can pre-order my book here www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/...

My review of Leading Works in Criminal Law by @chloejskennedy.bsky.social & Lindsay Farmer is out with Social & Legal Studies. You can read the review here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... & buy the (fascinating) book here: www.routledge.com/Leading-Work...

Forgot to post on here as well as on Twitter (“X”) that my book ‘lnducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law’ is now with CUP. I’m on mat leave but will post an update when it’s available 🤓

4/ “Doubt and the dislocation of magic: France, 1790–1940” #OpenAccess by William Pooley (@University of Bristol) doi.org/10.1093/past...

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