A unique event exploring orginal recordings of Edward Said delivering the 1985 T S Eliot Memorial Lectures at the University of Kent, which formed the basis of his seminal book Culture and Imperialism. www.kent.ac.uk/whats-on/eve...

Is econo-socio-legal a useful term? I'm not sure, but I found out something interesting in the process of trying to decide. Summary of presentation to Law & Political Economy stream at 2026 @slsauk.bsky.social Annual Conference, University of Sussex. amandaperrykessaris.org/2026/04/08/i...

Thank you to @leverhulme.ac.uk for granting me a Research Fellowship on the topic of ‘Law and Design: A pragmatic approach’, the main output from which will be a monograph to be published by Routledge. If you yearn to complete a passion project, apply: www.leverhulme.ac.uk/research-fel...

‘You Say Potato, We Say Legal Issue: Developing the Legal Issues Taxonomy (LIST) for Smarter Issue-Spotting and Access to Justice Infrastructure’ by Margaret Hagan papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Need to escape from the news? Here are a few things we’ve got coming up at the @britishacademy.bsky.social which might help. This panel in London/online will look at how art, performance and creativity can deepen our understanding of disability www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-a...

I’ll be asking ‘Is ‘econo-socio-legal’ a useful term?’ at the @slsauk.bsky.social annual conference. By ‘useful’ I mean can it clarify and/or change theory and/or practice.

Incredible substance here from @chrischirp.bsky.social. The 2nd wave of COVID-19 in the UK was a) devastating and b) avoidable. Take time to play the clip of Prof Kevin Fong who breaks down when describing the scale of death and its impact on ICU staff. christinapagel.substack.com/p/the-uk-cov...

We know that homelessness and precarious housing are closely connected to early, preventable deaths, but are we learning lessons to seek to prevent future deaths? That is what research published today examines: homelessinquests.blogs.bristol.ac.uk

Jiménez on New Legal Anti-Positivism Felipe Jiménez (USC Gould School of Law) has posted Truly General Jurisprudence (Forthcoming in Legal Theory) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: There has been a recent turn towards a new form of nonpositivism in Anglo-American jurisprudence. This paper focuses on…

Really fascinating work here on the celebration of drag, history, and gender fluidity in the face of regressive anti-trans legislative proposals in India homegrown.co.in/homegrown-ex...

Bless the librarians of Aberystwyth University for sending this blog out to their students: "Wait a Minute…What If I Don’t Want to Use AI?" #LibrarySky

We’re delighted to announce the NCACE Festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange, 20–24 April 2026. Five days of online events celebrating collaborative research and partnerships between universities, the arts & cultural sectors. Explore the programme: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ncace-fest...

So pleased to bring my Afro/Africanfuturist hat to this project!

How to make 'the constitutive idea' available- empirically, conceptually, and normatively. The wonderful @aperrykessaris.bsky.social on designerly ways. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How can playful creative activities help teams from different disciplinary backgrounds collaborate? We’re launching our Library for Transformative Play at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands, tomorrow, 24 February, 16.00–17.00 CET. It's one of the outcomes of Playing with the Trouble...

Northumbria Law School's Dr Helen Rutherford is part of this exciting project - read more below!

✨ How might we use The Horniman Museum & Gardens to develop legal futures capacity? With what benefits + risks? Elen Stokes + I are asking, together with a glittering array of collaborators + ECR to be selected via open call. 🙏 @slsauk.bsky.social for £ More: amandaperrykessaris.org/2026/02/06/l...

Matt Goodwin and the end of England: How one man's career explains our public life iandunt.substack.com/p/matt-goodw...

✨ Rich visual resource for those who study/teach law and economy visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org

“We can think about the restructuring of the global economy to remove ... dependence, not just from foreign tourist industries but offshore financial centres & tax havens” — Kojo Koram Explore our visual project on the Caribbean: https://visualising-extractive-capitalism.common-wealth.org

The Choreography of Consent: "experiments in dance/law research, which bring together artists, practitioners and scholars to develop innovative dance and law research methods that explore the movement of consent." Online event on 13th Feb 👇 tinyurl.com/2ucnxze5

IALS is inviting applications for a practitioner in residence for the academic year 2025-26. We would be especially interested in proposals that respond to the building, its past and potential futures. Full details here 👇 ials.sas.ac.uk/news/call-pr... #LawAndCreativity

Mapping the Arts and Humanities is launching Law & the Humanities in Practice with LHub (@ials.bsky.social), spotlighting how law, arts & humanities shape each other. Blog and podcast now live. Explore the map & get involved! 🎧 Listen to the podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/0mif... #MAHP

This whole series is such timely and valuable work. I may have to frame this paragraph and keep it on my desk as a reminder/mantra.

Now out! Multimodal Appreciation: A Kit for Evaluating Multimodal Works in Anthropology and Beyond Written by J. Albrecht, T. Criado, I. Farías, A. Gilbert, C.J. Maier. Published CC BY SA Institut für Europäische Ethnologie · HU Berlin, 2025 + info/download: www2.hu-berlin.de/multimodalap...

We've been working with Octopus Legacy, which got us thinking about octopuses, and now we're here describing one for your enjoyment 🐙

✨Enlivening legal education through The Postal Museum: we have released a guide to support Collaborators in identifying items in The Postal Museum Collections that relate to core legal subjects @thepostalmuseum.bsky.social @lawbore.bsky.social

Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...

This week on the SLSA Blog, @aperrykessaris.bsky.social shares her thoughts on making the Engagement and Impact dimension of REF2029 meaningful for law schools: www.slsa.ac.uk/post/making-...

'Andrew Knapp....will highlight the crucial role that museum collections around the world play in modern scientific research, and how modern technology can be used to get new information from old specimens.' UCL Grant Museum, 22 October 2025, 1:15 pm–2:00 pm, free and open to the public.

✨ Making the Engagement and Impact dimension of REF2029 meaningful for law schools: a blog post. amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/10/16/m...

…or to distinguish them from non-facts (falsehoods/yet-to-be-knowns)

All networking events need at least one designated host who goes around looking for people on their own and introduces them to others with similar interests. This takes maybe a couple of minutes per person and is pretty fun and easy if you know what you’re doing!

✨ Making the Engagement and Impact dimension of REF2029 meaningful for law schools: a blog post. amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/10/16/m...

The next three episodes of Confessions of an Early Career Researcher are out! From navigating the ECR landscape to building your academic community, tune in as fellow researchers share their academia survival tips. All episodes are now available across podcasting platforms. https://bit.ly/47PXZQH

This whole symposium is very useful on how to approach AI with your full critical faculties: head, heart, and soul.

I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n

I've been away from bsky for quite a few months, but I'm finally back, and have some big news to share! My #monograph on #Cyprus #law and #politics has now been published and is available online. Attached the discount count for those who would like to purchase a print or digital copy!

I miss the days when higher education was seen as a social good, a national treasure. When the social, cultural and intellectual contribution of higher education was valued as highly as economic contribution. When students from poorer backgrounds had proper financial support. When the humanities 1/

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations. Watch to find out more! 👇 @juliawinkler.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

This is just brilliant. Make sure you take a few mins to watch.

Here I provide snapshots of 20+ films that have something to tell us about law and race and argue for their use as pedagogical tools. The post also includes a rare clip from Death is Part of the Process [1986], a film about the early days of Umkhonto we Sizwe. folukeafrica.com/the-law-and-...

In this post, I reflect on what the TV series Black Earth Rising (Michaela Coel, John Goodman) tells us about how an inescapable colonial past bleeds into our meanings of home, truth, justice, and global hierarchies of power that collapse past, present, and future. folukeafrica.com/blackearthri...

Time for an explainer on how to get funding for a PhD in the UK (1/n)

New blog post from @aperrykessaris.bsky.social on the SLSA Blog! www.slsa.ac.uk/post/diversi...

This engaging and informative event brought together two forms of participatory proto-legal activity (citizens' assemblies and legislative theatre) that incorporate + promote designerly ways @cchwalisz.bsky.social @katyrubin.bsky.social @theconduitlondon.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYs...

✨‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions. New blog post inspired by @hiddenref.bsky.social amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/09/16/d...

Lisa Cook did some groundbreaking research about patents a while ago which is nicely introduced here on Planet Money www.npr.org/transcripts/...