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Professor of Legal Design. Associate Head, Lancaster University Law School. Editor-in-Chief, Legal Design Journal.
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"they hate our beef because our beef is beautiful and theirs is weak" our beef:

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

Our open letter response to the #USCommerceDept and #POTUS

'So what are you thinking? Is the tariff on Peru going to be higher or lower than for the Turks and Caicos Islands?' #tariffs

Optometrist: Do you prefer number one? Or Number two? Number one? Or number two? How about now? Is number one better? Or number two? Me: Please give me back my twins

💥 "Costco has gained ground. The warehouse chain rejected a shareholder proposal to weaken its diversity programs and stayed firm in its DEI stance... Costco’s shares have outperformed those of Walmart and Target over the same period." blackpressusa.com/dei-rollback...

Let it begin.

Men are facing a loneliness epidemic. So why do Dems want to stop group chats where guys bond over shared military interests? By Ross Douthat

Very pleased to see this short article with @veronanid.bsky.social and @parkendlydia.bsky.social on the Connecting Legal Education Fest published in the Law Teacher. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... It's a joy to work and to write with Verona and Lydia.

If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, they’d be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth. But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.

Connecting Legal Education - Hangout#69 coming along this week - 11am Thursday 27 March 🤨 All of us are familiar with the experience of things not going quite as we expected - and we all need to develop strategies to cope with that experience. We can also help our students with this process ...

Connecting Legal Education - Hangout#69 coming along this week - 11am Thursday 27 March 🤨 All of us are familiar with the experience of things not going quite as we expected - and we all need to develop strategies to cope with that experience. We can also help our students with this process ...

"I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Imagine this administration going after Covington & Burling, Perkins Coie, and Paul Weiss if they thought lawyers weren't obstacles to fascism. Again, my point is not that laws are perfect, nor are all lawyers heroes. But don't dismiss the point that law is foundational to how our nation works.

Do not travel to the US

After nearly 14 years and 3.5k posts on Twitter/X we are now looking to use Bluesky, along with other channels, to record some of our activities...

CfP Legal Education & the Human Lawyer (June 27), exploring what is unique & important about human legal expertise & how legal education can support learners in developing these capacities. Thanks to @altlaw.bsky.social @theltjournal.bsky.social @osgoodenews.bsky.social & OgoodePD. lnkd.in/gJuxFmK2

The US will no longer worry about civilians getting in the way of their bombs: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Go Luxi 😁 What a monster Trump and Vance created. Even the smol ones are in

Trudeau: "Every country is very aware that if the American government is willing to do this to their own closest ally, neighbor, and friend, everyone is vulnerable to a trade war."

Trudeau: "I want to speak first directly to the American people. We don't want this. We want to work with you as a friend and ally. We don't want to see you hurt either. But your government has chosen to do this to you. As of this morning, markets are down and inflation is set to rise dramatically."

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

Hangout #68 coming up this Thursday! Join us, Thursday 27th at 11am, to hear from Laura Charleton and Jenny Kemp speak on 'Building Bridges in Academia: Collaboration Across Borders and Disciplines'. @dohertylawteach.bsky.social @veronanid.bsky.social #connectinglegaled

❗❗❗ former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Igor Sushko: The United States appears to be in violation of the Budapest Memorandum which disarmed Ukraine of nuclear weapons in exchange for security guarantees. The agreement signed by the US in 1994 specifically prohibits economic coercion against Ukraine.

Starlink should be banned from European markets on national security grounds. Anything requiring Starlink should be shut out of the European market, and sanctions should be considered against all relevant actors. kyivindependent.com/us-threatens...

This was in January in case it was missed

Yes we are Absolutely thrilled to do this again with some of the most inspiring people that I have ever met 🥰 👋🏽👋🏾👋 #LDS2025 #legaldesignsummit

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

Slightly ironic sponsor for Eustace that, considering... 🤭 #Rovers

Ukraine's independence and territorial integrity are unconditional. Our priority must now be strengthening Ukraine and providing robust security guarantees. In any negotiation, Europe must have a central role. Our Weimar+ statement ↓