Join us today at the LPT (17:00-18:30, London). Registration: forms.gle/MWyH1nn3wCLzhY…

This is today! Martin David Kelly's paper is 🔥🔥🔥! I'm really looking forward to the discussion. Join us!

This is today! Abstract and 'teaser' attached. Do join us!

You really don’t need to have it all figured out from the beginning.

The evolution of the Moon.
4.5 billion years in 2 minutes.

📽: NASA Goddard

Now that I have actually written the paper, it seems safe to share this! Do come along 👍🏻

A rare photo of a Greggs staff member collecting the steak bake filling (1983)

Our next (and final 😢) legal theory seminar of 2023/24 is on Thursday 2 May @ 3pm when Jonathan Gingerich (Jonathan Gingerich= @jonathangingerich.bsky.social) (@Rutgers_LawPhil) will present his paper 'Democratic Vibes'. Details are here: law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/ev…. Our Call for Abstracts for 2024/25 is open, please apply!

Here's a fantastic PhD scholarship - with full funding - to work alongside Rowan Cruft and Crispin Wright on truth, democratic legitimacy, and citizen participation in policy-making. Deadline May 10.

stir.ac.uk/scholarships/a…

The final workshop on legal drafting and interpretation is a banger. 100% must attend. Look at the panel--fab mix of academics and practitioners

Blossom starting to emerge on our cherry tree.

Here's the line-up of events for our 16th annual Legal Theory Festival on 3-5 June. Almost all of our events this year will be hybrid, and details of how to register to join us via Zoom to follow soon. Many thanks to sara canduzzi for her great work on this 🙏 Please share widely

I argue in this article that governments and legislatures should abandon binary public/private categories when thinking about administrative justice in outsourcing arrangements. Advance copy now available. DM me if you don't have institutional access. academic.oup.com/ojls/advance-a…

This reminds me of an immortal complaint to chambers (I think my only one this far) by a long dissolved firm of solicitors. “We may well have been negligent. But it was not for counsel to mention this possibility to our clients.”

Looking forward to this A LOT 🤩

London and SE England friends: tickets for the new show of my super-talented friend Julie Flower are now available: tabard.org.uk/whats-on/grand…. Looking forward to seeing this when it comes to the Edinburgh Festival in August Edinburgh Festival Fringe

There is an excellent and important new paper on outsourcing in the OJLS from Nina Boughey: academic.oup.com/ojls/advance-a…

I guess everyone in law is suddenly going to be interested in the restrictions on the interpretation of deeming provisions and legal fictions now. Fowler v HMRC [2020] UKSC 22 at para 27 (per Lord Briggs) bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/…

In an academic paper, do I need to footnote a quote from The Simpsons (and, if so, how)?

Looking forward to this!