Jeremy Letwin
@jeremyletwin.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law @Lancaster University. Working in human rights, legal theory, environmental law, public law, and tort law.
Website: https://tinyurl.com/rbtx9sjy
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Website: https://tinyurl.com/rbtx9sjy
SSRN: https://tinyurl.com/4st2mea8
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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Legal Theory Blog
Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!
legaltheoryblog.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
My new article on Climate Change Litigation under the ECHR is out in @echr-law-review.bsky.social. (Thanks to my colleagues @lancasterlaw.bsky.social and @cohelongo.bsky.social for comments.)
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brill.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:38 AM
My new article on Climate Change Litigation under the ECHR is out in @echr-law-review.bsky.social. (Thanks to my colleagues @lancasterlaw.bsky.social and @cohelongo.bsky.social for comments.)
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The amount of time it takes to mark an essay has easily doubled since AI as I am finding myself trawling through footnotes, Google, and my university library database to double-check that the articles and books cited actually exist.
Thanks AI-- you've really increased my productivity.
Thanks AI-- you've really increased my productivity.
August 27, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The amount of time it takes to mark an essay has easily doubled since AI as I am finding myself trawling through footnotes, Google, and my university library database to double-check that the articles and books cited actually exist.
Thanks AI-- you've really increased my productivity.
Thanks AI-- you've really increased my productivity.
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20 bird species recorded from our house in Cumbria since Thursday.
House martin, wren, robin, chaffinch, goldcrest, willow warbler, nuthatch, wood pigeon, jackdaw, blue tit, great tit, siskin, wagtail, blackbird, osprey, buzzard, tawny owl, greylag goose, pheasant, chiffchaff.
Here's Crummock Water
House martin, wren, robin, chaffinch, goldcrest, willow warbler, nuthatch, wood pigeon, jackdaw, blue tit, great tit, siskin, wagtail, blackbird, osprey, buzzard, tawny owl, greylag goose, pheasant, chiffchaff.
Here's Crummock Water
July 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
20 bird species recorded from our house in Cumbria since Thursday.
House martin, wren, robin, chaffinch, goldcrest, willow warbler, nuthatch, wood pigeon, jackdaw, blue tit, great tit, siskin, wagtail, blackbird, osprey, buzzard, tawny owl, greylag goose, pheasant, chiffchaff.
Here's Crummock Water
House martin, wren, robin, chaffinch, goldcrest, willow warbler, nuthatch, wood pigeon, jackdaw, blue tit, great tit, siskin, wagtail, blackbird, osprey, buzzard, tawny owl, greylag goose, pheasant, chiffchaff.
Here's Crummock Water
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The Guardian have a write up of some of the amazing work done by my Criminology colleagues, Camilla & Steph, on a national survey on police uniforms.
It’s been a massive project.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It’s been a massive project.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Police say ill-fitting uniforms leading to crushed testicles and lumps in breasts
Exclusive: Survey of officers in England and Wales reveals symptoms so severe that some have had multiple surgeries
www.theguardian.com
July 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
The Guardian have a write up of some of the amazing work done by my Criminology colleagues, Camilla & Steph, on a national survey on police uniforms.
It’s been a massive project.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It’s been a massive project.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?... the funniest song of the genius Tom Lehrer
Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro
YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
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July 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?... the funniest song of the genius Tom Lehrer
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A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book
July 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book
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The Warwick 'rebrand' crystallises much of what is wrong with UK higher education today: namely (with honourable exceptions, of course) a fundamental disconnect between senior leaders and the reality of running academic departments and delivering teaching and research 'on the ground'.
A Warwick spokesperson comments on the Beyond rebrand: “We have leveraged our academic expertise as part of the Vogue media partnership as well as our professional services marketing and communications work”
#AcademicSky #Beyond #branding
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...
#AcademicSky #Beyond #branding
www.timeshighereducation.com/news/warwick...
Warwick mocked for ‘tone-deaf’ Vogue spread and ‘Beyond’ rebrand
Glossy magazine advertorial featuring university’s marketing chief draws ridicule from academics amid sector funding crisis
www.timeshighereducation.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
The Warwick 'rebrand' crystallises much of what is wrong with UK higher education today: namely (with honourable exceptions, of course) a fundamental disconnect between senior leaders and the reality of running academic departments and delivering teaching and research 'on the ground'.
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Not the Vogue article 😩 don’t try to make higher ed a (bad) luxury brand… I guess that explains SOME things. Warwick, just love yourself for who you are or no one else will. You were good enough 💜😳
Self-inflicted embarrassment for the University of Warwick — first it rebrands hyper-generically, then someone totally unhinged decides the *front page of the uni website* should say ‘Learn more about our Brand’.
July 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Not the Vogue article 😩 don’t try to make higher ed a (bad) luxury brand… I guess that explains SOME things. Warwick, just love yourself for who you are or no one else will. You were good enough 💜😳
Thought provoking piece from my good friend Sanjit here
Sanjit Nagi: A Road to Nowhere: Reforming the European Convention on Human Rights ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/07/02/s...
Sanjit Nagi: A Road to Nowhere: Reforming the European Convention on Human Rights
Over the last few weeks criticism of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR/the Convention) and suggestions that the United Kingdom (U.K) should attempt to reform the supranational instrumen…
ukconstitutionallaw.org
July 4, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Thought provoking piece from my good friend Sanjit here
I’m seeing a lot of this
I'm increasingly worried about one second-order effect of students relying on AI so much: that it undermines their CONFIDENCE to be able to distinguish smart-sounding but mediocre sludge from actually persuasive writing.... 1/3
June 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I’m seeing a lot of this
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I'm increasingly worried about one second-order effect of students relying on AI so much: that it undermines their CONFIDENCE to be able to distinguish smart-sounding but mediocre sludge from actually persuasive writing.... 1/3
June 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I'm increasingly worried about one second-order effect of students relying on AI so much: that it undermines their CONFIDENCE to be able to distinguish smart-sounding but mediocre sludge from actually persuasive writing.... 1/3
My case note on Tindall v CC of Thames Valley Police. Perhaps of interest to anyone who read the judgment and found the reasoning confused. We say the root of the confusion is a failure to “deconstruct” the elements of duty of care (in the words of Donal Nolan).
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
UNFORESEEABLY MAKING MATTERS WORSE: AN ISSUE OF NOTIONAL OR FACTUAL DUTY? | The Cambridge Law Journal | Cambridge Core
UNFORESEEABLY MAKING MATTERS WORSE: AN ISSUE OF NOTIONAL OR FACTUAL DUTY? - Volume 84 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
May 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
My case note on Tindall v CC of Thames Valley Police. Perhaps of interest to anyone who read the judgment and found the reasoning confused. We say the root of the confusion is a failure to “deconstruct” the elements of duty of care (in the words of Donal Nolan).
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Bluebells at Rannderdale
April 27, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Bluebells at Rannderdale
Fascinating reflections from Judge Eicke www.ejiltalk.org/human-rights...
Human Rights Protection of Non-Human Subjects from the Perspective of an ECtHR Judge
Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on ‘Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.’ As is well known, unlike m...
www.ejiltalk.org
April 25, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Fascinating reflections from Judge Eicke www.ejiltalk.org/human-rights...
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This is still very clearly the climate story of the week, and possibly the year.
Xi Commits China to Tougher Climate Targets as US Retreats
China’s President Xi Jinping committed the world’s top polluter to more stringent curbs on greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade in global climate talks that took place without the US.
www.bloomberg.com
April 25, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This is still very clearly the climate story of the week, and possibly the year.
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If you're not old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of communism, but sufficiently old to remember 9/11 and the Iraq War, things have basically been on a downward curve since your childhood.
March 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
If you're not old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of communism, but sufficiently old to remember 9/11 and the Iraq War, things have basically been on a downward curve since your childhood.
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Inclusive legal positivism out of control
February 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Inclusive legal positivism out of control
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"A European Court of Human Rights ruling against Italy over toxic waste marks the start of a new approach to European states' pollution responsibilities, according to legal experts."
ECHR ruling expected to boost environment litigation in Europe
ECHR ruling expected to boost environment litigation in Europe
One lawyer said the Strasbourg court's order to draw up a comprehensive strategy for the "Land of Fires" region was the first concrete order of its kind in an environmental case.
dlvr.it
February 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"A European Court of Human Rights ruling against Italy over toxic waste marks the start of a new approach to European states' pollution responsibilities, according to legal experts."
Important new environmental judgment from the ECtHR. Noteworthy that the Court adopted a "precautionary approach" [391]. Also important that exceptional approach to standing of associations from KlimaSeniorinnen confined to climate change cases only [220-221]. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22item...
HUDOC - European Court of Human Rights
The HUDOC database provides access to the case-law of the Court (Grand Chamber, Chamber and Committee judgments and decisions, communicated cases, advisory opinions and legal summaries from the Case-L...
https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22itemid%22:[%22001-241395%22]}
February 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Important new environmental judgment from the ECtHR. Noteworthy that the Court adopted a "precautionary approach" [391]. Also important that exceptional approach to standing of associations from KlimaSeniorinnen confined to climate change cases only [220-221]. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22item...
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The standard terrible NIMBY arguments all on display from Monbiot
1.. Build more affordable housing not more housing
2. More housing won't impact price much
3. There are lots of empty houses
4. Redistribute what we have
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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1.. Build more affordable housing not more housing
2. More housing won't impact price much
3. There are lots of empty houses
4. Redistribute what we have
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot
Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
The standard terrible NIMBY arguments all on display from Monbiot
1.. Build more affordable housing not more housing
2. More housing won't impact price much
3. There are lots of empty houses
4. Redistribute what we have
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
/1
1.. Build more affordable housing not more housing
2. More housing won't impact price much
3. There are lots of empty houses
4. Redistribute what we have
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
/1
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I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
January 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
the resources
that were in
the budget
and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education
Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities
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Thank you all for following us. We wanted to introduce ourselves as some of you might not know who we are. We are an academic journal and here we will be informing you about new research that we publish and about other ECHR related news. We are independent from the @coe.int.
January 15, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thank you all for following us. We wanted to introduce ourselves as some of you might not know who we are. We are an academic journal and here we will be informing you about new research that we publish and about other ECHR related news. We are independent from the @coe.int.
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We are happy to announce that we moved from X to here and our X account will be discontinued. Please do follow us and spread the word. This change will not amend our mission to share the most up-to-date and insightful scholarship on the European Convention on Human Rights!
January 14, 2025 at 12:42 PM
We are happy to announce that we moved from X to here and our X account will be discontinued. Please do follow us and spread the word. This change will not amend our mission to share the most up-to-date and insightful scholarship on the European Convention on Human Rights!