Interesting test

I have joined the dual monitor world 🖥️🖥️

What human rights obligations exist to protect the population as a whole? Dr Guy Baldwin @guyjbaldwin.bsky.social explores this question in a thought provoking paper in Judicial Review: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @uomsoss.bsky.social

I've seen a few people here denying that antisemitic hate crimes are still a major or widespread problem in this country. This denial does no one any favours. We must be rock-solid against all hate and prejudice.

Great roundtable at Manchester on the Magna Carta and Common Law Rights (with Lord Mance, Lord Carnwath, Dinah Rose KC, Professor David Feldman, Professor Javier Garcia Oliva, Professor Robert Thomas and Rev'd Professor Helen Hall)!

📢 A new report led by Prof @robertthomas223.bsky.social @uomlaw.bsky.social and funded by the @nuffieldfoundation.org finds councils delivering SEND support are being “set up to fail”. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/o...

Proud to have made the top 2

Professor Javier Garcia Oliva, Head of Law at the University of Manchester, was invited to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Doctoral Programme of the Faculty of Law at the Universidad del Desarrollo (Chile) on Thursday, 9th April.

We’re delighted to announce that Professor Amir Paz-Fuchs has been appointed as the new Head of @uomlaw.bsky.social in the School of Social Sciences at @manchester.ac.uk. 👉 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

The University of Manchester, through Creative Manchester, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Tokyo University of the Arts and National Center for Art Research, Japan Find out more about the partnership: https://ow.ly/rYJK50YJJU0

Manchester Museum has been confirmed as the most visited attraction in Greater Manchester for the third year running! ⭐ The Museum welcomed 648,595 visitors throughout the year, bucking the trend in the face of an overall decline in visitor numbers since 2019. www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/m...

that sinking feeling after a good night’s sleep that you should make good use of your day now

Hit 50 citations 😊

I fed Google Gemini my song "Without Music" for an assessment. Kinda interesting

Thanks to the kind readers who made this the most read article on the Judicial Review website in the past year!

Congratulations Artemis crew and NASA!

Happy Easter!

the next moon mission should include a critical theorist that would pose vexing questions

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

From everyone here at UoM Bluesky HQ - we hope you all have a fantastic Easter, and a restful long weekend! 🐣

me when the conference staff rolls out the buffet

Proofs!

it's obvious they used ai this has none of the vivid prose, distinctive voice and layered narration of a regular grant application

This was OK but as many have said, the movie blows it out of the water

Is having four coffees a day sufficient for an academic or should I be looking to up my game?

For its penultimate event of the academic year, the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series was thrilled to host an illuminating talk by Dr Lewis Graham (lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social) entitled "Our Conservative Supreme Court".

is "you" a social scientist

The ManReg Public Law Seminar Series, in collaboration with the @malg-uom.bsky.social was delighted to host Ayako Hatano (Oxford/EUI) for an excellent presentation on “Regulating Hate Speech in Japan: Developments, Debates, and Challenges”.

Exciting news! The 38th Harry Street Lecture, hosted by the School of Social Sciences and @uomlaw.bsky.social, is on 23 March, featuring Attorney General Richard Hermer KC! You won’t want to miss this one, full details below 👇 #HarryStreetLecture #AttorneyGeneral #PublicLaw

An intellectual giant has died. It is impossible to discuss constitutional democracy without discussing Habermas' reflections on it. We will continue to do so for a long time www.jstor.org/stable/3072601

I won't be impressed until Claude eats a whole thing of ice cream and drunk dials his ex

New post: introducing my new article on Canadian constitutional conventions being forgotten or disregarded. doubleaspect.blog/2026/02/24/f...

Will my professor know? Einstein submits assignments from your account just like you would. The work is original and generated per-assignment — not copied from a database.

Finally published, in the Dalhousie LJ: a piece looking at widespread, and sometimes wilful, forgetting of some constitutional conventions in Canada, and wondering what, if anything, might be done about it. Paper available at: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The Views is on Goodreads! Thanks to whoever rated it 🥰

Have a great week, everyone! 🐝 Lovely pic of Whitworth Arch here, from @photojobby on Instagram 📸

As a hard core fan, it's disappointing that Emily Bronte's novelization of Wuthering Heights is not more faithful to the movie

early afternoon

Hope everybody had a nice Valentine's - now let's start the week off right! Thanks to @photojobby on Insta for this beautiful shot of a leafy Whitworth Arch 📸 We'd love to see any pictures of campus you've been capturing - please do share them below!

The ManReg Public Law Seminar Series had an excellent start to 2026 with a stimulating paper from Dr Duncan Wallace (Melbourne) entitled “A History of the Hardial Singh Principles”. @uomsoss.bsky.social

me going through chatgpt's 8-bulletpoint summary of moby dick

1/2 Here’s a 1 min trailer for Advanced Issues in Public Law, a 2nd yr module I’m teaching late 2026 at @durham.ac.uk with @aileenmcharg.bsky.social and @rogermasterman.bsky.social. I just used iMovie. No AI. I&S = individual and the state; UK Con = UK constitutional law—both 1st yr modules.

Double-decker bus in Manchester on a wet, foggy day, November 1953 (Mirrorpix/Getty).

The accusation that the Lords are “obstructing democracy” by supporters of the assisted dying bill is a ridiculous one that shows up the flaws in this process that have been there from the very beginning – which have repeatedly been covered up by heated rhetoric (1/?)

30,000+ Iranians slaughtered in just two days. 48,000+ murdered since December 28, when the uprising against the regime began. These are the latest figures reported by the ICHR. Silence helps the regime, not the Iranian people. Speak up now before there is no one left to save.

This is devastating. All solidarity with the people of Iran

This is relatable. I myself was so furious I didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize that I refused to floss for a whole day

Frozen 3 concept: set 1000 years after Frozen 2, everyone is dead apart from the immortal Olaf, who wanders desolate winter landscapes overwhelmed by his unending grief. Includes songs

people who wash new clothes before wearing them, who hurt you

This is a tightly argued paper that challenges some prevailing assumptions on the compatibility of life sentences with human rights (as understood by the ECtHR). Still, I'd have liked to see more as to whether all carceral regimes are covered by the argument (or just some). Anyway, recommended