📍 To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the Court is launching a new transversal theme page on the rights of persons with disabilities. 🔎Explore it on the Court’s Knowledge Sharing platform. 🔗 go.coe.int/1bcyt

Counting down to Book Launch International Protection of Socio-Economic Rights: An Interactional Approach. Will be joined by H Flynn, K Boyle & R O'Connell. 20 November, 12:15–2:00 pm (UK) Uni of Leicester, Law School - Fielding Johnson Building, Jan Grodecki Room or online via link in comment

🏛️ Facultad Derecho UCM Inaugurada en octubre 1956, esta emblemática facultad fue diseñada por el arquitecto Agustín Aguirre López. Sobrio y funcional se amplió en los años 70 para incorporar la biblioteca, bajo la dirección de Javier Carvajal. #ArquitecturaSingular #EdificiosQueCuentanHistorias 💫

Freedom of worship, COVID-19 and actio popularis: a note on Figel’ v Slovakia [ECHR] 2025 - Figel's application was declared inadmissible: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/09/05/f...

Guest post by Christopher Grozdoski on Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Against Scottish Event Campus Ltd [2022] SC GLW 33: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/09/09/r...

A note on Rafiyev v Azerbaijan [2025] ECHR 171: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/07/10/p...

Burial in the wrong plot: Re An Exhumation [2025] ECC Por 1: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/07/01/b...

My take on @sandbergrlaw.bsky.social’s "Rethinking Law and Religion" is now out for the types of Amicus Curiae at journals.sas.ac.uk/amicus/artic.... Spoiler: it’s easily among the finest reads of 2024, so you’d be well within your rights to ignore my scribblings and go straight to the book itself.

Roundup: Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, Archbishop of Wales retires, Scots consultation on dissolution of SCIOs, Gypsies and Travellers in Scotland, N Ireland consultation on dissolution of marriage & civil partnership, CofE General Synod - & more: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/06/29/l...

The SLSA is looking for a new PG Rep to its Board as one of our current PG reps, Mini Saxena, has recently stepped down after two years of service. Thanks @min-i.bsky.social it's been great working with you! For further info about the role [email protected]. 7/7/25 closing see below

I’ve never played basketball above the lofty heights of Italy’s 4th division, but today I did what I do best at a venue where larger humans do what they do best: arbitration, morality, and Kantian ethics (which, come to think of it, might be rougher than rugby) at the Leicester Tigers stadium!

Look, if you want to learn more about legitimate violent protest against government injustices in failing liberal democratic states... www.routledge.com/Justifying-V...

I recently reviewed Guus van Harten and David Schneiderman's "Rethinking Investment Law" in the pages of the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review. Spoiler alert: it’s very good. Everyone should read it, but if you need convincing, my review is here. kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

In the delirium surrounding the release of my book, I forgot to mention to my legions of aficionados that I’ve also published a brief reflection on res judicata in investment arbitration, thanks to the superstars at the Kluwer Arbitration Blog. arbitrationblog.kluwerarbitration.com/2025/06/04/f...

I would like to remind my audience of aficionados that this masterpiece is out and there's still a nice discount, so you really have no excuse not to educate yourself and contribute to extinguishing my mortgage at the same time. In case you're partial to Amazon, here's the link tinyurl.com/Vargiu1

Interested in The Rule of Law, Multi-layered Human Rights Protection and Constitutional Resilience? Then this conference and CALL FOR PAPERS 👇(to mark the 75th anniversary of the ECHR (and the 35th anniversary of the Venice Commission) might be for you. www.linkedin.com/posts/centre...

My book is out 3 June! If investment arbitration excites you more than baking bread, it’s your lucky day. Written for lawyers, arbitrators & ethics enthusiasts. Discount code in the QR codes, courtesy of @anthempress.bsky.social. I’d be thrilled if you read it - my ego and mortgage will thank you.

Blog by our Arts Editor👇 "our arts reviews, in forging new connections between original scholarship & cultural sphere, & in individually & collectively creating a cultural record formed through a scholarly mantle, are an exciting strand of our dynamic interdisciplinary field." @martailj.bsky.social

New Blog Post - Finding Joy in Academia With the summer assessment period approaching, I wanted to take the time to think about the parts of my job that I truly love, and some lessons I have learned as an early career researcher. open.substack.com/pub/danielle...

Roundup: does Cardiff Council trust in Jesus?, the Government on the Lords Spiritual, headstones moved to make way for "activity space", funding rectories in Guernsey, “net zero” in the Church of England (again): lawandreligionuk.com/2025/04/20/l...

[thread] Well, it’s over. The #SLSA2025 has wrapped up its final curtain call, the house lights are up (metaphor suggested by an amazingly theatrical presentation I’ve attended today), and I am back in Leicester with my suitcase now filled with laundry instead of lanyards. This morning I gave

My article is finally out in the Human Rights Law Review (part of a symposium on Next-Generation Thinking on the CRPD) where I argue that the CRPD is a queer document! 'The CRPD is Here and queer! A lesson in queering human rights law' academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

[thread] The rain is still falling with the sort of determined enthusiasm one associates with Liverpool in its element, and I got wet all day in the manner of a person who has accepted their fate but insists on remaining vaguely stylish while doing so. My spirits, however, remain decidedly

Starting off the final panel with @paolovargiu.com, discussing Ivan Ilyich and the Meaning of Suffering.

[thread] First day of the #SLSA2025 and already it feels like slipping into a familiar old coat. I ran into some old friends I hadn’t seen in donkey’s years, and met a few colleagues I’d only seen once or twice before - ghosts of conference past and social media present who have now

Roundup: not much to write about this week: still no provision for humanist weddings in England & Wales, a Northern Ireland religious discrimination claim, “Net zero” in the Church of England, and illumination of church towers: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/04/13/l...

Off to Liverpool for the #SLSA2025. I might have gone a touch feral with the slides this time.

Burial of a baptismal font – some considerations: a note on Re St Paul Heslington [2025] ECC Yor 1: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/03/21/b...

www.reuters.com/world/europe... The #surveillance turn in Sweden is really interesting. This comes hot on heels of lots of other extensions to policing powers.

[1/4] Funny thing: the teaching year's just about dead (one straggler of a tutorial next Friday, assuming anyone bothers to turn up) and instead of slipping into summer torpor I’m already sketching out next year like some unseasonably motivated careerist. Proactive? Professional? Maybe.

Great news, people are submitting papers! The fear that you throw an academic party and no one turns up is dissipating. Please share details of the conference (looking at 25 years of the Human Rights Act) if you can

Roundup: Listed Place of Worship Grant Scheme, more on the Makin Report, Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015 (Extension) Act 2025, burial & cremation - & more: lawandreligionuk.com/2025/01/19/l...

I'm seriously considering delivering all the lectures for Law and Religion with a soundtrack in the background. I know it's unorthodox but hey, I'm literally talking about God - shouldn't I add some gravitas to it?

The Church of England has issued a statement on the case of the former Church of England rector David Tudor, highlighted in the BBC File on Four documentary: lawandreligionuk.com/2024/12/16/s...

[1/3] There was a time, not so long ago but measured now in the soft ache of memory, when my legs could carry me, and life itself seemed stitched together by simple movements. I did not think much of the freedom back then, because freedom,

"In doing so, the ECtHR can define a distinctly European model of pluralism that honours the shared principles of the Convention while embracing the interplay of traditions that make up the contemporary European society." Man that's anticlimactic.

It's Monday, it's quite early in the morning, and I'm wondering why am I already up since I've got no class this week.

Roundup: Collecting ethnic data on Jews and Sikhs?, Political opinions are not protected beliefs, Parochial fees in the C of E and C in W - & more: lawandreligionuk.com/2024/12/08/l...

Check out the brilliant new research article 'Naked ambitions and masked violence' by Stephen M Young, on the role of storytelling in Law and legal critique, focusing on Frank Herbert's #Dune @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It's been 15 minutes since I posted about my books, so it's GIVEAWAY TIME!!! If you want a FREE copy of my new @routledgelit.bsky.social collection (with @drmitchtravis.bsky.social & Kieran Tranter) Science Fiction as Legal Imaginary, like & reskeet this - winner chosen at random on 5 January. 1/2

"Just because you're making money out of it, it doesn't mean it's developed"

In Warwick with @celinetan.bsky.social @vzivkovic.bsky.social @anilyilmaz.bsky.social and the rest of the gang for the UK leg of David Schneiderman's 2024 World Tour!

Roundup: Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, Makin Review, non-religious and belief weddings, marriage, family and succession law in Scotland, “impact reporting” for charities, religious minority rights – & more: lawandreligionuk.com/2024/12/01/l...

Crip time means setting aside one's Sunday to catch up with work and wasting it with their body catching up with them.

TFW you feel like the term has flown by but you feel like you've been lecturing non-stop fro 74 weeks in a row.

Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference! The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University. The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’. Please re-post!

[1/12] There are subjects that sit quietly on the edges of our days, waiting for us to turn toward them. They don’t demand attention with a shout or a bang but, with a slow inevitability, they make themselves known nonetheless.

Who wants some fabulous, free, online #LegalHistory with added #Pirates ??? Well of course you do! Law and History Network will be hearing from Graham Moore on 20th November, 5.30-6.30 UK time. Sign up! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/confederac...

ICYMI we’ve launched a new beta tool using HESA data to track if university departmental closures are leading to geographical ‘cold spots’ for the availability of particular social science/humanities/arts subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...