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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 2d

I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair!
www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution

This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 26d

The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 26d

So much of what you say is true for me too. He was so generous with his time and his encouragement meant so much to me.

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 29d

Whoever wrote this headline deserved the rest of the day off

Where there’s a will there’s a whey: cheese producers lean into their craft as Trump tariffs bite

Europeans put their faith in centuries-old, all-natural production to maintain US custom

www.theguardian.com

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Sep 8

Academise a book: That's not my Justice or Rationality

Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · Sep 8

Academise a book: Pride and Heuristics

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Sep 5

You can replace the word "sovereignty" with "domination" quite easily in this article

Colm O'Cinneide @colmocinneide.bsky.social · Sep 5

David Frost being explicit - a hard UK sovereignist agenda entails leaving the ECHR, scrapping the Windsor Framework and imposing 'full control' over Northern Ireland by Westminster fiat.

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/87d3793...

Britain needs to get serious about sovereignty

Withdrawal from the ECHR is just the first step in Parliament taking back control

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Sep 1

Lovely use of the phrase "constitutional Tetris" in explaining why lack of effective devolved (and local?) democracy in England enables Farage to stir up xenophobia

Richard Wyn Jones @richardwynjones.bsky.social · Aug 29

NEWYDD - gan @ailsahenderson.bsky.social a minnau.

NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson.

theconversation.com/nigel-farage...

Nigel Farage and the political power of English grievance

The Conservatives and Labour have allowed resentment to fester in the biggest part of the UK – and the only region not to have its own parliament.

theconversation.com

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Public Law Publications @publiclawpubs.bsky.social · Aug 13

Roger Masterman and Matthew Nicholson, "The Dissolution of Dualism" (Cambridge Law Journal, Ahead of Print)

Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

THE DISSOLUTION OF DUALISM | The Cambridge Law Journal | Cambridge Core

THE DISSOLUTION OF DUALISM

www.cambridge.org

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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · Jul 22

Whenever I’m asked to explain phenomenology

Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · Jul 22

how it feels to be asked about your research

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Prof Deirdre McCann @profmccann.bsky.social · Jul 15

Must-see Magna Carta event at Durham Cathedral on 15th October : Henry Jones @durham-university.bsky.social, @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & @benedictdouglas.bsky.social on Magna Carta's contemporary relevance, chaired by @thombrooks.bsky.social. Tickets: durhamcathedral.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · Jul 15

Another opportunity to join Durham Law School as a three-year career development fellow in public law. A great Law School and a vibrant public law community with opportunities to teach in both core and optional modules, and excellent support for research. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX378/c...

Career Development Fellow in Public Law at Durham University

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Career Development Fellow in Public Law opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 30

Also this unfortunate brand of water sports inflatables

Jobe® Watersports | Official Website and Shop | Jobesports.com

Shop the full Jobe collection at the official online store. Free delivery from £75. Jobe: Gets you on the water!

www.jobesports.com

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 25

David Wilkinson? He's lovely.

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 23

Jeanette Winterson beautifully foreseeing the problem with AI art and in student essays in 1995

I do not want to argue here about great artists, I want to concentrate on true artists, major or minor, who are connected to the past and who themselves make a connection to the future. The rue artist is connected. The true artist studies the past, not as a copyist or a pasticheur will study the past, those people are interested only in the final product, the art object, signed sealed and delivered to a public drugged on reproduction. The true artist is interested in the art object as an art process, the thing in being, the being of the thing, the struggle, the excitement, the energy, that have found expression in a particular way, The true artist is after the problem. The false artist wants it solved (by somebody else).

Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Johnathan Cape 1995) 12

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 20

The Assisted Dying Act will only create a general increase in self-determination and liberty if the wider inequalities of our society are addressed

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Jessie Blackbourn @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks to @publiclaw.bsky.social for publishing my article on decision making under the Prevent and Channel duties. So long in the writing that the Prevent Duty guidance and definition of extremism were updated and a review of Prevent was published, which didn't slow things down further at all.

Public Law @publiclaw.bsky.social · Jun 19

... @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social (on Administrative Justice and the Prevent and Channel Duties); Aisling Ryan (on the animators of administrative law); and @doubleaspect.blog (on judicial deference to administrative limitations on rights).

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 20

Our duty dominated society is not ready for the legalisation of assisted suicide.

Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Nov 27

The UK’s culture means some people are likely to choose assisted dying because they feel they have a "duty to die". The safeguards in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill do not address this.

In this post I suggest constitutional change is a way to reduce the danger

The Need for a Constitutional Solution to the “Duty to Die” Concern - Durham University

www.durham.ac.uk

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 19

Wow, I didn’t find that in my research. I’ll have to have a read. My feeling is that there’s a good argument to be made that it should be the case.

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 19

Reskeeting for my UG Intro to Law class who had to do a problem question on whether Tintin could claim as a secondary victim if he suffered psychiatric injury if he saw Snowy injured in an accident.

Tintin and his immediate family member snowy (who is a also dog).

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Barend van Leeuwen @barendvanleeuwen.bsky.social · Jun 16

The Common Market Law Review has just published my new article:

"Repositioning Free Movement of Services: A Substantive Perspective on the Structure and Dynamics of the Internal Market"

kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic...

@delidurham.bsky.social

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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · Jun 12

Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to [email protected] by 7 July.

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Jun 10

It’s good to see the Committee explicitly recognise the existence or level of a Minimum Income Requirement is an ethical decision, as well as a political one.

Preventing people from living with their family based on how much they earn is unethical, this should guide the political debate & decision

Migration Observatory @migobs.bsky.social · Jun 10

The Migration Advisory Committee has reviewed the financial requirements for Brits & settled migrants to bring partners & children to the UK.

They see the final decision as a political one govt must make, so didn't recommend any single threshold. Here's a short summary 🧵

www.gov.uk/government/p...

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · May 21

Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules

Case came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping Wild camping will be allowed on Dartmoor after the supreme court ruled that a multimillionaire landowner was wrong to ban it on his land. Dartmoor was – until the legal action – the only place in England where wild camping without the permission of the landowner was enshrined in law. In Scotland, people have enjoyed this right since 2003. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · May 6

Looking forward to reading this and applying it to animal rights!

@drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social GEWIRTH REASERCH CLAXON 🚨🐑🚨

Shaun Pattinson @shaunpattinson.bsky.social · May 5

📣 New article published today
🔗https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14777509251339277

🔑 Deryck Beyleveld and I present a new argument to explain and defend our moral precautionary thesis.

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · Apr 17

Ha! Ewe-Boats is obvious but I'll take it

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