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Writes and researches legal and political theory & sometimes Italian history. Edits Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy. Flutes, runs, reads, cooks, swims, snaps, goes to concerts, galleries, plays & films. Lives London-Exeter-Berlin-Livorno
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Gearing up to head to Munster to debate compromise

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Delighted to have been asked to contribute to this wonderful Festchrift for Elisabetta Galeotti link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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A fascinating diary ruminating on unfolding events in the USA by political scientist and democratic theorist ADAM PRZEWORSKI adamprzeworski.substack.com?r=fjq3u

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Excellent (if depressing) piece by Kim Lane Scheppele on Trump's Constitutional Coup - following the contemporary populist autocratic playbook ettlo.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/1t6...

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An enjoyable dinner after debating compromise and the representative dilemma with @danielweinstock.bsky.social as part of the UCL Dworkin Colloquium

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Great article now on free view - get access and read it and the jury's opinion via the link below

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The winner of the 2024 CRISPP Essay Prize, for the best essay in a normal issue published in Vol 26 (2023), goes to Edmund Tweedy Flanigan, 'From self-defense to violent protest' CRISPP, 26(7) (2023), 1094-1118 www.tandfonline.com/journals/fcr...

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Rights differentiation within the bounds of egalitarian justice Daniel Sharp

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Contains excellent articles including: Why voluntariness cannot ground cultural rights restrictions for immigrants Eszter Kollar & Helder De Schutter The morality of state priorities and refugee admission Patti Tamara Lenard Justice for denizens: a conceptual map Johan Olsthoorn ·

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Special Issue on Justice for Denizens, edited by Johan Olsthoorn is now on line, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy: (2025) Vol 28, No 1 www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

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I cannot imagine how anyone could have voted for Hegseth unless they thought that the US does not, in fact, face any real security challenges at all. This includes things like accidents that require someone to communicate with other countries to make sure things don't spin out of control.

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Unsurprisingly most of his claims are false ... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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What the Trump Presidency is all about - making Trump rich again

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I have found Lawrence Freedman's analyses of the Israel Gaza situation consistently the most informative and level headed. Here he provides a summary. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/e...

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Excellent to have Jacob Levy giving the CRISPP lecture at this year’s BIAPT conference. Thanks to Matt Matravers our book review editor for chairing.

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Jacob Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social rocking the (literal!) after-dinner slot at @biapt.bsky.social #BIAPT2025

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You keep thinking the Tories will notice that every time they pile in on a Reform issue it helps Farage. But yet they keep doing it. Rats learn faster.

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In Germany 55 universities have already left X - I think universities everywhere - and indeed any reputable public or private organisation - should do the same. Its inappropriate universities to have X (or indeed FB pages) as standard items on our Profile pages. www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei...

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A final New Year musical treat at the amazing Piano Salon Christophori - Schubert, Brahms, Mahler with Hagar Sharvit Mezzosoprano & Marlene Heiss piano.

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An imaginative, often amusing, and beautifully sung and produced Viaggio a Reims at the Deutsche Oper

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Great klezmer themed new year concert with the komische oper orchestra at the Schiller Theater - Mahler klezmer style worked remarkably well.

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A Happy New Year to all - against all the odds may it be a year of peace, solidarity and humanity

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Nico Holonics in a bravura single handed performance of The Tin Drum at the Berliner Ensemble - he sure gets through the drums ….

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Greatly enjoyed RCE at the Berliner Ensemble, on how revolutionary nerdy hackers take on Musk, Bezos and their ilk (based on the novel by Sibylle Berg) www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung...

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An excellent and sadly all to accurate piece - www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Wonderful to have Ella K Whiteley give the last of this term’s UCL Legal and Political Theory talks.

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I don't use Spotify much, but there seems to be French feel to my top play list for 2024

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Great to have former MA LPT student Bruno Leipold return to talk to current students on his novel idea of randomly selected Constituency Juries to hold elected representatives accountable. Great paper and discussion.

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Great issue of CRISPP now out - from socialism and republicanism to homelessness, climate budgets and the interests of nonhuman animals - a real intellectual feast

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Such a great time in Montreal, as always. Really enjoyed giving this talk there and pondering the challenging questions from students and faculty afterwards. youtu.be/OiztX7xLI_Y?...

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Today’s poem is called ‘The Question’.

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Today’s poem is called ‘Please Bear in Mind’.

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Since it seems like these classics from the bad place are re-circulating here, I humbly present my most (only?) viral post to date: types of political theory paper…

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what was the cardinal’s favorite app for paying bribes to other conclave members?? PAPAL

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Same for me - another excellent post from @nescio13.bsky.social

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Great time in McGill and start of my Canadian tour

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And this tomorrow: aspercentre.ca/event/consti...

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Am looking forward to this today at Queen's Kingston: www.queensu.ca/philosophy/u...

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Excellent post that has had me thinking about my own work over the past couple of days open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

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New piece on the regulatory and constitutional challenges posed by big data - Data Ethics: Normative Principles and Their Regulatory Challenges academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

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New piece out exploring how technocracy as well as populism undermine truthfulness and with it democratic representation in a pluralist society. 'Truthfulness, pluralism and the ethics of democratic representation' @bjpir.bsky.social Find the article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Great to have Rebecca Buxton officially kick off the Legal and Political Theory seminar today (with apologies to Adina Preda for forgetting to photograph her unofficial kick off last week). Next up Ulas Ince on 29 October

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Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Volume 27, Issue 6 (2024) now on line - a great special issue on the Political Philosophy of Hope; Guest editor: Jakob Huber www.tandfonline.com/toc/fcri20/c...

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Pleased to have been part of this critical exchange on Confucian democratic constitutionalism Sungmoon Kim, Confucian Constitutionalism. Dignity, Rights, and Democracy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2023). Open access- link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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