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Ed Kirton-Darling
@ekd.bsky.social
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Academic lawyer at the University of Bristol, interested in lots, including inquests & death, social welfare, housing/homelessness, planning, administrative and constitutional law. Firm believer in nuance and context.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · Nov 20
It is massively exciting to be able to say our Research Handbook on Social Welfare Law is now available. The other editors and I are delighted with how it has turned out- we believe it contains compelling accounts of social welfare law from around the world, and a wide-ranging future agenda
Front cover - Research Handbook on Social Welfare Law, Edward Elgar, 2024
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 1d
They are a truly fantastic group of people
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 1d
And it is only thanks to @ourmoh.bsky.social that this is being tracked #makethemcount
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 1d
Every year, the number of people who die while homeless grows. 1,286 in 2021. 1,313 in 2022. 1,474 in 2023. These are not estimates, but are verified numbers.

BBC News - UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK deaths of 1,611 homeless people in 2024 is record high
Most are linked to suicide or drugs, with spice and nitazines increasingly deadly.
www.bbc.com
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
We eagerly anticipate your presence at the inauguration.

Kind regards

For the Perelman Center
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
Additionally, we will announce a visiting fellowship initiative, allowing researchers from around the globe to visit the Perelman Centre to consult the collection and contribute to its ongoing improvement.

Feel free to share this invitation with anyone who might be interested in the Fund.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
During the inauguration, we will present the history of the collection, its content, and engage in discussions with scholars who have collaborated with Professor Twining to ensure the preservation and continuation of his intellectual legacy.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
The Perelman Centre is honored to continue contributing to the tradition of legal pragmatism and legal realism by making this collection accessible to the academic community worldwide.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
The creation of this Fund was made possible by the generous donation of Professor William Twining of his private collection to the Perelman Centre, which will further enrich the library’s resources.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
The Twining-Llewellyn Fund is a unique collection of manuscripts, published and unpublished papers, notes, books, and other documents related to legal realism and pragmatism, with a special focus on the works of Karl Llewellyn and William Twining, two of the leading scholars in these fields.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
Topic: Inauguration Twining-Llewellyn Fund
Time: Oct 6, 2025 10:00 AM Brussels
Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 977 3152 9145
Link: hec-fr.zoom.us/j/97731529145
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
"We are delighted to invite you to join us online for the inauguration of the Twining-Llewellyn Fund of the Perelman Centre, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on Monday, 6th of October at 10 am Brussels time (CET). Below, you will find all the details for connecting to the online event.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 5d
FAO SOCIO-LEGAL COLLEAGUES
@slsauk.bsky.social

I've just been asked to circulate the below online event, taking place on Monday morning (and details which have been sent to me are in the thread below, including the Zoom link)
Poster advertising the inauguration of the Twining Llewellyn fund at the Perelman Centre, 6 October at 10am CET
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
I will argue that these reports are not only efforts to produce social change for people who are homeless, but also amount to efforts to change the inquest system itself, into a system focused on issues of social welfare.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
Looking at the way in which homelessness is being talked about in these reports, this lecture will explore what these reports tell us about the contemporary death investigations and the Coronial system.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
Perhaps more importantly than the increased numbers, analysis of these reports reveals a shift in the issues being identified, with many now directly focused on a fundamental question of housing need rather than on the death itself.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
In the last seven years, there has been a 133% increase in the number of reports by Coroners which relate to people who are homeless.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
In addition, Coroners have an secondary duty to make a report where they identify risks to the lives of others. This lecture focuses on those reports and, in particular, on cases where the deceased was homeless or precariously housed.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
The statutory purpose of the process – which investigates around one fifth of deaths each year – is to answer key questions about the death, including how the person died.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
In England and Wales, Coroners are required to investigate and hold a public hearing, called an inquest, when someone dies and the cause of death is unknown, the death was violent or unnatural, or the person was in state detention.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
The lecture will be in room 3E 2.2 on the University of Bath campus, and I will post the abstract in the thread below
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 13d
Anyone interested in issues of deaths of people who are homeless or precariously housed, and the ways in which institutions change (using a framework of discursive institutionalism), come along (in person) on Thursday 2 October at 17:15 to my Centre for Death and Society public lecture in Bath.
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · 17d
Hallucinating is inevitable in Large Language Models.

“Governance must shift from prevention to risk containment,” Dai said. “This means stronger human-in-the-loop processes, domain-specific guardrails, and continuous monitoring.”
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Nick Miller @nickdmiller.bsky.social · 17d
When asked “How many Ds are in DEEPSEEK?” the DeepSeek-V3 model with 600 billion parameters “returned ‘2’ or ‘3’ in ten independent trials” while Meta AI and Claude 3.7 Sonnet performed similarly, “including answers as large as ‘6’ and ‘7.’” www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · Aug 28
Just to be clear, I'm not involved at all with this. Details here (it looks like a great project): publiclawproject.org.uk/latest/publi...
Public law litigation in the automated state - Public Law Project
How can we use transparency mechanisms to make sure the public sector's automated decision-making is fair and lawful?
publiclawproject.org.uk
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · Aug 28
If you'd be willing to take part, you can email them at [email protected].
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Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social · Aug 28
(2) Individuals, front-line and user-led organisations who have either been involved in bringing legal proceedings, or who would consider bringing legal proceedings should a system of concern be identified.
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