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Anthropologist Tibetologist Lawyer.
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The Secret Barrister
17 days ago
NEW BLOGPOST Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
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Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years âŠ
https://thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/abolishing-trial-by-jury-why-is-the-government-overlooking-the-obvious/
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Sad news. William Twining was a much valued Senior Associate
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Ros Atkins on... Israel's war in Gaza and proportionality âIsrael insists it followed international law throughout this conflict - and that its actions are proportionate. But nearly all of the experts we spoke to aren't convinced.â
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Margot Finn
3 months ago
'my instinct is that our troubled world needs Humanities Studies as much â if not more â than in many past years'. (John Major:
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University of Oxford
4 months ago
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. đ§” [1/8]
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Monica Hakimi
4 months ago
Ingrid and I issued the following statement in the just-released issue of
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Robert Saunders
4 months ago
A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford. "I heard no compassion in what you said...". "I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities". Do read.
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An open letter to Nigel Farage - Bishop Steven's Blog
Bishop Steven writes an open letter in response to Nigel Farage MP's immigration policy which was launched in Oxford this week.
https://blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-letter-to-nigel-farage/
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Naomi Klein
4 months ago
Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza. But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded:
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Stethoscope Story #8
This is "Stethoscope Story #8" by Albino Squirrel Channel on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
https://vimeo.com/1112115018/c6b1b5c156?share=copy
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Very bad news.
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4 months ago
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East Anglia Bylines
4 months ago
Want fewer migrants? Say goodbye to: * 30% of our tech workforce;  * 1 in 4 hospitality workers; * 1 in 5 construction workers; * 16% of the NHS. Still sound like a good plan? Stephen McNair reports
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Do we really want a big reduction in immigration?
Voters see immigration as the most important issue facing the country. There are things to be done. But can we really afford major reductions?
https://eastangliabylines.co.uk/immigration/do-we-really-want-a-big-reduction-in-immigration/
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London Review of Books
4 months ago
âGraeber does seem to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist militants, or sitting in on horizontalist spokescouncils, arguing and taking field notes.â
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reads David Graeberâs essays:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeberâs Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against âbullshit jobsâ, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n14/richard-seymour/baseline-communism
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Nicholas Witkowski
4 months ago
JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY). Apply here:
jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Delighted
#TheRuleofLaws
gets a mention in The Economist though the laws of war donât feature highly. Tricky subject!
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âHe has trouble completing a thoughtâ: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trumpâs mental acuity
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Himal Southasian
5 months ago
"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for âThe Red Wind Howlsâ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is." Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrupâs defiant reckoning with Tibetâs legacy of violence:
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Tsering Döndrupâs defiant reckoning with Tibetâs legacy of violence
I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining â the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201
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Richard Murphy
5 months ago
Why the UK wonât face hyperinflation â even with government money creation
youtu.be/Jkx2YzakYNg?...
Hyperinflation is the scare story threatened by those who want to stop government spending. But itâs just that: a scare story.
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Why the UK wonât face hyperinflation â even with government money creation
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
https://youtu.be/Jkx2YzakYNg?si=27azym_uvDmUbS7L
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Alex von Tunzelmann
5 months ago
This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and itâs important that itâs published in the NYT.
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Splendid surroundings to hear the AG reaffirm the UKâs commitment to the rule of law and Venice Commission. And glad to be able to offer socio-legal and historical perspective.
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The corporations aiding genocide
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...
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The corporations aiding genocide
I never imagined I would read a report like this in my lifetime, and yet it is in The Guardian, is corroborated elsewhere, and it is about a plan put forward by the Israeli government, with no doubt t...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07/09/the-corporations-aiding-genocide/
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Glad to have been able to sign this.
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7 months ago
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Ian Dunt
7 months ago
UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers
Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/27/uk-must-impose-sanctions-on-israel-to-meet-legal-obligations-say-more-than-800-lawyers?CMP=share_btn_url
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Richard Murphy
7 months ago
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' ends US democracy. What happens next?
youtu.be/JrpgSR0Y8Ms?...
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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' ends US democracy. What happens next?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
https://youtu.be/JrpgSR0Y8Ms?si=iyXFv1PpTSvjQyi6
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đđđ Harvard rejects Trump administration's sweeping demands for change
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Bo Tiojanco
8 months ago
Wonderful dinner discussing everything from Russian literature to legal history with
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, Nick, and Kentaro.
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Really delighted that the Leverhulme Trust has agreed to fund my new project on historic Tibetan law at
@oxfordcsls.bsky.social
It will follow my start-up project with the John Fell Fund:
www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-historic...
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Law in historic Tibet: translating the Dalai
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-historic-tibet
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Matthew Erie
9 months ago
How is this happening in the USA??
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Daniel Drezner
9 months ago
"The administration has weaponized the fight against antisemitism as a means to another end: punishing and weakening universities."
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/14/enos-levitsky-harvard-columbia-trump/
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Paolo Sandro
9 months ago
Big responsibility here of anglophone jurisprudents, who have for decades and decades split hairs about the dangers of judicial discretion while completely neglecting the much more systemic risks associated with discretion in the administrative state
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This is bound to be thought provoking. He gave us a taste of it at
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10 months ago
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Blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History
10 months ago
ESCLH CONFERENCE 2025: Registration open [DEADLINE 15 MAR 2025]
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ESCLH CONFERENCE 2025: Registration open [DEADLINE 15 MAR 2025]
(image source: University of Szeged ) The registration  module for the Biennial ESCLH Conference in Szeged is now open. More information h...
http://esclh.blogspot.com/2025/02/esclh-conference-2025-registration-open.html
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Robin Ince
10 months ago
Becoming homeless due to Russian air strikes - bad & sad, you may come and stay. Becoming homeless due to Israeli air strikes - you brought it on yourself, clear off. We are witnessing a grotesque spectacle at the moment
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Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole that let Gazan family settle in UK
The family won an appeal to come to the UK, after originally applying through a scheme for Ukrainians.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpdx0yn6v7lo
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Mike Galsworthy
10 months ago
đ„ A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context â this isnât journalism, itâs neglect
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Poor coverage of Gaza at the BBC: failures of journalism
A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context â this isnât journalism, itâs neglect
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/world/uneven-coverage-of-gaza-at-the-bbc-failures-of-journalism/
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Glad to see the American Bar Association taking a stand.
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My Tibetan Law web-site has a new look and more accessible content, thanks to excellent work by Daniel Wojahn.
tibetanlaw.org/home
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The Bar Council
11 months ago
Intermediate courts aren't the answer. Changing the fundamental structure of delivering criminal justice is not a principled response to a crisis that wasn't caused by that structure in the first place. We've set out alternative recommendations in our submission to Leveson's reviewâŹïž
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Peter Stefanovic
11 months ago
Labour MPs pressure Starmer to call out Trump's Gaza remarks as 'ethnic cleansing' 'Either you stand for international law and basic human decency, or you donât,' says Clive Lewis after President proposes 'takeover'
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Labour MPs pressure Starmer to call out Trump's Gaza remarks as 'ethnic cleansing'
'Either you stand for international law and basic human decency, or you donât,' says Clive Lewis after President proposes 'takeover'
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/labour-mps-starmer-trump-gaza-ethnic-cleansing-3521073
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Ed Davey
11 months ago
At a moment when we desperately need a fragile truce to hold, Trumpâs ramblings on Gaza risk having the effect of a bull in a china shop. The UK needs to make clear that these proposals must be rejected, and that we support international law and a two state solution based on 1967 borders.
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Come and hear Tom Lambert, expert on medieval law, speaking on 'Law and Disputing in Early Medieval Britain'. 5.30pm, Manor Road Building, Oxford.
www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Excited to be convening this term's seminars at the
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in conjunction with the Oxford Legal History Forum. We have an excellent line-up of speakers, starting today.
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Good. Davey urges Starmer to start EU customs union talks
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We canât wait to welcome Martti Koskenniemi to Oxford CSLS.
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Robert Reich
11 months ago
We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements.
www.theverge.com/news/603113/...
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The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out
FAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk.
https://www.theverge.com/news/603113/faa-chief-musk-dc-plane-crash-crisis
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T. Greg Doucette
11 months ago
âĄïž January 20: FAA director fired âĄïž January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen âĄïž January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded âĄïž January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees âĄïž January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!
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NOETIC
11 months ago
#read
#noetic
#nonfiction
#books
While waiting for Haidt and Dawkins to be dispatched, let us have a crack at the history of legal systems by
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John Gallagher
11 months ago
This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?
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Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0k5n0k101lo
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Alex Hall Hall
11 months ago
I used to avoid such extreme language, but itâs increasingly hard to explain Israeli policies in any other way - there is a clear, systematic govt-sponsored project to remove Palestinians from their homelands.
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I'm looking forward to giving this presentation tomorrow. What will the comparative lawyers make of it?
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Global Legal history: What can be compared and
Is it possible to compare the laws and legal systems that developed in very different times and
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/event/global-legal-history-what-can-be-compared-and-how
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Al Jazeera English
11 months ago
"Even if there is lasting peace, the Israeli government will set its own conditions to continue the blockade and harassment of the population." â
#AJOpinion
by Reem Sleem —ïž
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The ceasefire will not bring our lives back
I have experienced the pain of war in exile for almost a year. It hurts me to know our return is not possible.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/19/the-ceasefire-will-not-bring-our-lives-back
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UK must rejoin EU customs union, says Lib Dem Davey
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Richard Murphy
11 months ago
The only viable source of funding for investment in the UK is UK savers
www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01...
Rachel Reeves should stop her globe-trotting with a begging bowl and realise that the only source of investment funding for the UK is UK savers if she changes pension and ISA savings rules.
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The only viable source of funding for investment in the UK is UK savers
It became clear yesterday that Rachel Reevesâ mad trip to China, accompanied by Andrew Bailey, who is Governor of the Bank of England, will raise no more than ÂŁ600 million worth of new investment into...
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/01/15/the-only-viable-source-of-funding-for-investment-in-the-uk-is-uk-savers/
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