📣School of Law academic in the news! Our Professor @drmitchtravis.bsky.social is quoted in this @theguardian.com piece discussing the policy and legality of surgeries conducted on intersex children 👇 tinyurl.com/47uhv7ur @lsjleeds.bsky.social

Many many congratulations to my good friend @drmitchtravis.bsky.social on his promotion to Professor. I had the privilege of working with Mitch for the bones of a decade and this recognition of both his talent & hard work is extremely well deserved. 👏👏👏

Over at the JLS-Blog, we published some thoughts on our recently published edited volume on "Socio-legal Trajectories Across Europe" @naomialderman.bsky.social @jenhendry.bsky.social journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/meet-th...

NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

Now Open @elengebretsen.bsky.social @martindimarco.bsky.social @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social @jenhendry.bsky.social @sandraduffy.bsky.social @kirstenwidner.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social @racheljwechsler.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social

Interested in PG study or doctoral research at #CUHK? Consider attending CUHK Postgraduate Virtual Info Week 2025, October 20-31, details via the link: www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk/admissions/a...

We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

This paper that the brilliant @mwewerinke.bsky.social and I coauthored for @iclq.bsky.social is probably my most significant piece of work on statehood and sea-level rise. Find it here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

MS Word, why do you hate ‘particular’? Sometimes it’s necessary, better even, so miss me with the pass-agg underlining already

Nice to receive my copy of this book! Such an enjoyable project - great contributors and a memorable Oñati workshop. @cmboulanger.bsky.social @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @mpilhlt.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/prof-jen...

Happy first day of semester to all who celebrate #cuhk #cuhklaw #hongkong

🚨 OFFICIEL ! 𝗣𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘̀𝗥𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗘 𝗦𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗘̀𝗥𝗘, 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗧 𝗠𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (𝟮𝟴 𝗮𝗻𝘀) 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘́ 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝟯𝟬 𝗗𝗨 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗡 𝗗’𝗢𝗥 ! 🌕👏

Congratulations to Scott McTominay, who has been nominated for football's most prestigious individual award. The Scotland midfielder is among the Ballon d'Or nominees after a season in which he won the league with Napoli and was named Serie A MVP, while becoming a hero on the streets of Naples

Radio 3 is playing an orchestral version of Sweet fucking Caroline, having just five minutes ago played Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma. Kill me

The Observatory has raised the T9 storm signal for the first time since 2023, with hurricane-force Wipha closing in on China's southern coast. The weather service urged the public to take precautionary measures, adding that it will consider issuing the T10. In full: buff.ly/cxQbpYd Photos: Kyle Lam.

🧵The 6-year @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant @ips-leeds.bsky.social is complete, as is their new website! inclusivepublicspace.leeds.ac.uk 1\8

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

Happy publication day! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe (Oñati International Series in Law & Society, Hart 2025) is now available to purchase: use discount code GLR BD8 at the checkout for 20% off. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega...

This is totally insane

Webpage now with updated ToC! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega...

🇩🇪🤝🇬🇧 The longstanding funding agreement between 🇬🇧 Arts and Humanities Research Council with 🇩🇪 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft has been extended. Focus will be on joint arts & humanities discovery research projects. #ResearchinGermany www.ukri.org/news/ahrc-an...

*crab-walked

⏳FINAL CfPs #LEXJointConferenece OPEN CALL🌎 ✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’. ✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill ✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025 ✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events' ✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3

Our OUP book Civil Recovery of Criminal Property is a finalist for Law Book of the Year in the LEAP Irish Law Awards 2025!

Our OUP book Civil Recovery of Criminal Property is a finalist for Law Book of the Year in the LEAP Irish Law Awards 2025!

The full list of finalists for the 2025 LEAP Irish Law Awards has now been published. #sponsored

Durk is still in a lot of trouble to put it mildly but this is good according2hiphop.com/lil-durks-ly...

Just under a month until Hart publish the latest output from our Socio-Legal Trajectories project @mpilhlt.bsky.social, this Oñati series edited collection: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega... Publishing June 12, ask your libraries to pre-order! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social

Just under a month until Hart publish the latest output from our Socio-Legal Trajectories project @mpilhlt.bsky.social, this Oñati series edited collection: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega... Publishing June 12, ask your libraries to pre-order! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social

🚨 NEW 🚨 Across the EU, people continue to be criminalised simply for crossing borders or for helping others in need. Our new report is out today. Key findings in thread and full report on picum.org/wp-content/u...

Delighted to have been elected as the Chair of the @slsauk.bsky.social and many thanks to everyone who attended the AGM at #SLSA2025. It is a real privilege for me to follow Professor John Harrington in this role and I'm very excited to continue working with the board for the socio-legal community.

Interesting papers on punitive sanctions against homelessness through PSPOs and Area Bans, exploring the ‘aesthetic and affective dimensions of governance’ (Valverde) shaping public space from @jenhendry.bsky.social Amanda Keeling, Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen & Els Schipaanboord #slsa2025

Academics of Bluesky, the hat are your top tips for combatting insomnia? We’re like the start of Fight Club over here…

It's come to my attention that some people believe you can't buy a new book until you've read the books you already have. Let me assure you, as both a lawyer and a writer, that this idea is legally and morally WRONG and BAD. Buy more books.

Managed to capture the storm rolling in

If you wanted to explain how the police protect the interests of capital in a single picture

The Court of Appeal has reduced sentences for Just stop Oil protesters, re-asserting the importance of common law and ECHR rights to protest as relevant to the sentencing stage. I acted for Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace. www.landmarkchambers.co.uk/news-and-cas...

It will do little to help the perception/reality of FPNs as 'fining for profit'. I'd be interested to see what evidence the government used to say that £500 is more of a deterrent than £100, especially for those most vulnerable...

Hard not to see the increased FPN for PSPO breach as anything other than money-making scam

I swear we live downstairs from the only person in Hong Kong who wears shoes in their bedroom. Heeled shoes. Clip-clopping all over the flat at gone 11pm, like a psychopath.

I am now on Blue Sky. I am still in search of people I know who are also now using Blue Sky. Family, friends, and colleagues, let me know if you are here so I can follow you.

This is so unconstitutional it’s like a law school issue spotter. Spending clause fail. Separation of powers fail. First Amendment fail. Vagueness fail.

Full text of the von der Leyen statement on the "ReArm Europe" plan

Nominations are now open for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction—and anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize! We hope you'll nominate books you love that meet this year's criteria:

A man is prosecuted for ‘escalator misuse’ What did he do? Who knows. This is what fast-track justice looks like sometimes Merseyrail didn’t go to the trouble of providing any actual evidence of a crime. Then the magistrate convicted based on trust that he’d done something wrong

Attending @sarahganty.bsky.social's 🇭🇰CUHK lecture on Poverty in Judgecraft, presenting forthcoming in German Law Joirnal paper with @jenhendry.bsky.social discussing❗️ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... @uclouvain.bsky.social @profjacob.bsky.social

Taking place tomorrow afternoon!

Coming to the office on fire alarm testing day was a bad call… 🚨🚨🚨🙉🙉🙉