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Amanda Perry-Kessaris

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FAcSS FDRS SFHEA. Professor of Law, University of Kent. Design-based + sociolegal approaches to economic life of law. https://amandaperrykessaris.org/

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Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · Jul 29

✨ Law and Design: a monograph-in-progress, contracted for publication by Routledge @routledgelaw.bsky.social‬ amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/07/29/l...

Law and Design: a monograph

A work in progress by Amanda Perry-Kessaris, contracted for publication by Routledge. A diverse array of scholars and practitioners are working at the intersections of law and design. However, this…

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Nadia Kornioti @nadiakti.bsky.social · 2h

I've been away from bsky for quite a few months, but I'm finally back, and have some big news to share! My #monograph on #Cyprus #law and #politics has now been published and is available online. Attached the discount count for those who would like to purchase a print or digital copy!

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 1d

I miss the days when higher education was seen as a social good, a national treasure. When the social, cultural and intellectual contribution of higher education was valued as highly as economic contribution. When students from poorer backgrounds had proper financial support. When the humanities 1/

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Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · 1d

A visit to @ourmoh.bsky.social How to Survive the Apocalypse gave a sense of the love + care for all that motivates that tracking. The gifts I was given on my visit are by my side every day.

Hand holding coloured ribbons each with advice on how to survive

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 3d

Free stickers suitable for flag-bearing lampposts. Send a large A4 envelope with a 1st class large stamp to me at Bragg Office, PO Box 6830 Bridport DT6 9BH and I’ll send you a sheet. #ReclaimtheFlag 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 2d

🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations.

Watch to find out more! 👇

@juliawinkler.bsky.social @mfbosworth.bsky.social @smilivojevic.bsky.social
@cambridgelaw.bsky.social

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Dr Carole McCartney 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @ctmccartney.bsky.social · 5d

This is just brilliant. Make sure you take a few mins to watch.

Stephen Farrall @stephenfarrall.bsky.social · 5d

The film we commissioned as part of out ESRC funded homicide trends project is out, and can be viewed here:

#academicsky #ESRC #documentaryfilms

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Lives Transformed - 40 Years of Violence and Social Change

This short film draws on the largest-ever study of the Homicide Index in England and Wales, tracing four decades of shifting patterns of lethal violence. It examines…

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 5d

Here I provide snapshots of 20+ films that have something to tell us about law and race and argue for their use as pedagogical tools. The post also includes a rare clip from Death is Part of the Process [1986], a film about the early days of Umkhonto we Sizwe.
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The Law and Race Film Club

20+ films on Law, Race and Society

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 12d

In this post, I reflect on what the TV series Black Earth Rising (Michaela Coel, John Goodman) tells us about how an inescapable colonial past bleeds into our meanings of home, truth, justice, and global hierarchies of power that collapse past, present, and future.

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Black Earth Rising: Home, truth and pyromaniacs

What is the responsibility of we who live in yesterday’s future?

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 8d

Time for an explainer on how to get funding for a PhD in the UK (1/n)

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Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social · 9d

New blog post from @aperrykessaris.bsky.social on the SLSA Blog! www.slsa.ac.uk/post/diversi...

‘Diversity’ of outputs in Law REF2029 submissions

Amanda Perry-Kessaris, Professor of Law, Director of Research and Innovation, and REF Co-ordinator, Kent Law SchoolThis blog will be cross-posted on the Kent Law School Blog, Countercurrents, and Aman...

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Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · 19d

This engaging and informative event brought together two forms of participatory proto-legal activity (citizens' assemblies and legislative theatre) that incorporate + promote designerly ways @cchwalisz.bsky.social @katyrubin.bsky.social @theconduitlondon.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyYs...

How to Save Democracy: Meet the Pioneers

YouTube video by The Conduit

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Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · 22d

✨‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions. New blog post inspired by @hiddenref.bsky.social amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/09/16/d...

‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions

This post has been cross-posted on the Kent Law School blog, Countercurrents, and the SLSA blog. Image 1: Screenshot of extract from REF2029 Guidance on eligible Outputs. The Hidden REF p…

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Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · 20d

Lisa Cook did some groundbreaking research about patents a while ago which is nicely introduced here on Planet Money www.npr.org/transcripts/...

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Referencing work by @bhumikabilla.bsky.social, @andeewallace.bsky.social and Siobhan Wills (University of Ulster).

Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · 22d

✨‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions. New blog post inspired by @hiddenref.bsky.social amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/09/16/d...

‘Diversity’ of outputs in law REF2029 submissions

This post has been cross-posted on the Kent Law School blog, Countercurrents, and the SLSA blog. Image 1: Screenshot of extract from REF2029 Guidance on eligible Outputs. The Hidden REF p…

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Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · 23d

The Edinburgh Legal Theory group is delighted to share with you the line-up for our Autumn semester. We have lots of exciting events coming up, so make sure to save the dates in your calendar and to come along for what we can guarantee will be lively and inspiring discussions. See you there! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The image shows a poster with a list of events that will be held at the Edinburgh Law School between September and December 2025. The events can also be found on the Law School’s website at: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/events.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 24d

💛🚫🤖 No AI Gods, No AI Masters 🤖🚫💛

I am massively excited to share the backstory ACADEMIC SHENANIGANS behind our Open Letter (& so this paper below too) — and as always big thanks to my co-authors {@irisvanrooij.bsky.social & @marentierra.bsky.social}:
www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/no-ai-g...

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · Sep 3

My latest blog post is a detailed invitation to join a research network devoted to critical pedagogies of race and imperialism in law. In it, I outline who its organisers are, the reasons why we have set up the network,and what we hope to achieve in it. Welcome!

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NI Legal Quarterly @nilegalq.bsky.social · Aug 15

‘Fantasy legal exhibitions’

@aperrykessaris.bsky.social, Victoria Barnes @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

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Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · Aug 15

Unexpected research insight (again) from Podyssey: this one is full of useful sparks for thinking about interspecies councils as a pathway to unlocking human imagination ✨

Alex Andreou's Podyssey @alexpodyssey.bsky.social · Aug 12

New: 🐸 AESOP III - How to Lose a Donkey in 10 Ways

🐇 What is the moral of "The Tortoise & The Hare"?🐺 What is the warning in "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"?🦊 What does "sour grapes" mean?

You're probably wrong about all three.

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AESOP III - How to Lose a Donkey in 10 Ways

Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 12/08/2025 · 1h 22m

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Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · Aug 11

Another resource deploying designerly ways to enhance legal education from maestra Emily Allbon ✨ @thecitylawschool.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/emilya...

𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬! | Emily Allbon | 31 comments

𝐀𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐥𝐚𝐰 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬! A combo of my two loves: legal design and legal education. 𝐊𝐲𝐥𝐚’𝐬 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐲 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐲 https://tldr.legal/kyla is a new tool to help law students with ever...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Jul 29

Boiling here at home in Cyprus but I put the finishing touches a couple of days ago on this preprint: What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean? doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Wherein I analyse HCAI & demonstrate through 3 triplets my new tripartite definition of AI (Table 1) that properly centres the human. 1/n

title and abstract from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 1 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

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Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social · Jul 29

✨ Law and Design: a monograph-in-progress, contracted for publication by Routledge @routledgelaw.bsky.social‬ amandaperrykessaris.org/2025/07/29/l...

Law and Design: a monograph

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