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Law & Social Justice (L&SJ) is a research centre based at the University of Leeds School Law, engaging with questions about inequalities in welfare and social justice. https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/research-centre-law-social-justice
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In honour of #UN #SocialJusticeDay we are delighted to share an interview with Professor Anna Lawson @ips-leeds.bsky.social. Click below for her insights on #disability #justice, #GuideDogs 🦮, #horseriding and much more!👇 tinyurl.com/yc57jd55 @lsjleeds.bsky.social #20February #AcademicSky #LawSky

Drag artists, assemble! #dragartist #dragking #dragqueen #lawsky #academicsky

The rights-based arguments on the use of GPS electronic monitoring for protective, rather than punitive purposes are examined in the paper published by MLR Open Access [here] (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...)

There’s fantastic work underway at the University of Leeds to tackle sexual violence on campus. You can read more about those involved, including our very own @annabarker.bsky.social, here: spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/a-community-...

Paolo Sandro: The Rule of Guidance? Blog Series Introduction ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/01/27/p...

Our Dr Alex Pearl @lsjleeds.bsky.social is tackling the #financial #exclusion of adults with #learning #disabilities with Project Nemo! Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/bdz2e76k #Disability #Fintech #Finance #AcademicSky #LawSky

A report by Dr Aiello and Prof Clements with @cerebracharity.bsky.social and #Parent and #Carer Alliance CIC highlights the failure of #UK #governments to provide dignified, accessible, and properly resourced #continence services. Read more 👇 tinyurl.com/422vz9bj @lsjleeds.bsky.social #AcademicSky

also, if you're a CLSJ member but aren't on the starter pack, let us know and we can add you!

Had such a good time today presenting a work in progress paper with Fae Garland on the schism between human rights and health in intersex policy. Thanks to the Manchester Centre for Regulation, Governance and Public Law for having us and asking really interesting questions!

The latest Policy Leeds Signpost features Dr @cjbradshaw.bsky.social's upcoming webinar on surplus food redistribution, and Professor Duncan Sheehan's recent appearance in front of the House of Lords Special Public Bill Committee @cblpleeds.bsky.social @lsjleeds.bsky.social Read more 👇

Our next guest seminar is taking place on Monday 17th!

@johnnygcakes.bsky.social and I are looking for APTs to take part in a research project. This project is a collaboration between Dr Imogen Jones (University of Leeds) and John Pitchers (Chair of the AAPT).

Double blog day: 1. As another funeral home mistreatment scandal makes the news, the case for urgent action is again highlighted. See here: wp.me/pcjBr1-5E

How do overseas-trained doctors and nurses experience the UK’s fitness to practise regulations? Read about it in our latest blog post! #migration #healthcare #fitnesstopractise #NHS makingregisters.leeds.ac.uk/fear-of-refe...

Our @drimogenjones.bsky.social has co-edited a landmark new Routledge handbook on law and death; a survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections of #law and #death in the 21st century. Read more about this important new publication below 📚👇 tinyurl.com/4ujb6ydh #LawSky #AcademicSky

You can now follow L&SJ members who are here on Bluesky with this handy starter pack! go.bsky.app/F1hFvdR

For those looking for a University of Leeds starter pack (let me know if I forgot anything) go.bsky.app/Cfc4Nan

On the 26th Feb Dr Carrie Bradshaw will be delivering a fascinating webinar about Good Samaritan laws and surplus #food at @globalfoodleeds.bsky.social. Sign up and read more below👇 @lsjleeds.bsky.social #AcademicSky #LawSky #Environment

Next Tuesday, 5 February: @lsjleeds.bsky.social is hosting Dr Prabhakar Singh for a webinar on his paper 'Oppenheim's Law, 1905'. Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...?

The @universityofleeds.bsky.social is the first Russell Group Uni to quit X! 🎉 🎉 Read more👇 tinyurl.com/2h3tyjfx @lsjleeds.bsky.social #Yorkshire #Leeds #Academia #AcademicSky #HigherEd #LawSky

The @lawsadrag.bsky.social folks have their next event taking place on the 4th April!

All University of Leeds accounts are leaving Twitter/X, including us. We're now exclusively on Bluesky!

Congratulations, both! 👏 @lsjleeds.bsky.social

The School of Law welcomes new staff members! 👋 Meet them below: 👇 essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/art... @lsjleeds.bsky.social @iszpotakowski.bsky.social #AcademicSky, #LawSky, #LegalResearch, #LawSchool, #Law

@drfoxpopuli.bsky.social and I wrote a paper on RuPaul's Drag Race as a legal system! We talk about legal rules, principles and aesthetics in RPDR, using queer theory to critique the show. It's just been published (open access) - read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Check out this CFP from the Law's a Drag project, ran by our members @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social and @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social!

This is another excellent roundup of the policy-facing work and achievements of colleagues across @universityofleeds.bsky.social — including by our @kpatricio.bsky.social, Dr Laura Bainbridge, Professor Graham Farrell & Dr Toby Davies! @lsjleeds.bsky.social @vp-centre.bsky.social

We’re thrilled to be hosting the SLSA (@slsauk.bsky.social) Conference this year – the UK’s premier socio-legal research event! 📚✨ Join us in Liverpool, April 15-17, to engage with leading experts in the field & experience all this vibrant city has to offer. 👉 Find out more: bit.ly/slsa2025

Happy New Year, Bluesky friends!

Celebrating the book launch of ‘Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law’ by @jenhendry.bsky.social and @glexareen.bsky.social at @lsjleeds.bsky.social featuring @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social @paolosandro.bsky.social @iliastrispiotis.bsky.social @eepwrites.bsky.social

Our Professor Marie-Andrée Jacob is Co-Investigator on the new and exciting AHRC-funded Research Network, 'The Choreography of Consent: experiments in dance/law research'. Read more about this brilliant network at the link below! essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/art... @lsjleeds.bsky.social

Earlier this year, the Malta Conference brought together global experts to discuss how Islamic law countries can engage with Hague Conference treaties on private international law. Learn more about Dr Yaqub's participation and work: tinyurl.com/2vkrpvnu @lsjleeds.bsky.social

Hello Bluesky! we're WRUP (White Rose University Press)We are an academic publisher established as a collaborative initiative by three leading UK universities: the University of Leeds, the University of Sheffield, and the University of York, which collectively form the White Rose Libraries (WRL).

Another L&SJ book launch next week... join us to celebrate the release of Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law! Sign up here: www.tickettailor.com/events/schoo...

Come along to this in-person @lsjleeds.bsky.social event @lawatleeds.bsky.social on Dec 10! @glexareen.bsky.social & I will be introducing and celebrating our co-authored Routledge New Trajectories book Legal Pluralism.

Book launch! Co-editors @glexareen.bsky.social and @drmitchtravis.bsky.social introduce their two Law & Sci-Fi edited volumes

Our very own @glexareen.bsky.social discussing the possibility of progressive legal imagination in responding to climate change.

It’s @whiterxbbit.bsky.social presenting on ‘Ectogestation as emancipation’ where she looks at technological and legal imaginations in feminist utopias

Our book launch is happening now!

Dr Rebecca Shaw's project ‘Domestic abuse service providers and their stories’ investigated how the stories around domestic abuse can prevent change. Read more below! @lsjleeds.bsky.social essl.leeds.ac.uk/law/news/art...

Hey folks, help me out with this one? I'm putting together a starter pack for socio-legal scholars for @slsauk.bsky.social and others to use. Let me know if you or anyone else should be added! go.bsky.app/T5W1tVv