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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · 18h

Thanks very much!

Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · 1d

Hi Shoaib. Do you know if there’s a written version of this, or if there will be in the future? Thanks

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · 1d

An Open Access version of this paper is available here: eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · 6d

This might be read alongside this excellent update bsky.app/profile/ejil...

EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 12d

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR | by Paulina Rundel

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR

In the shadows of the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion, Strasbourg has been busy with climate cases too – busy, mostly saying no. Published on 28 August 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ...

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · 6d

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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Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · Aug 27

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.

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · Aug 11

One option is to bite the bullet and say that proportionality is a utilitarian doctrine, which is exactly what I claim here academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

Proportionality, Stringency and Utility in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights

Abstract. I argue that a form of indirect utilitarianism can provide a sufficiently plausible justification for three crucial elements of the ECtHR’s doctr

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Dinah Rose KC @dinahrose.bsky.social · Jul 29

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

Lake with mountains beyond. An old fence going down to the water. Cloudy sky.

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Angus MacCulloch @amacculloch.bsky.social · Jul 31

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...

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

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · Jul 27

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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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Jul 23

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Jul 23

🤦🏿‍♂️

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Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social · Jul 24

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'.

Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · Jul 24

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...

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

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · Jul 24

They may have walled it, but the embarrassing screenshots will live on forever…

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · Jul 23

@samuelmoyn.bsky.social In 'Rights in the Liberal Tradition', Shklar says some interesting things about the links between romanticism and Mill's liberalism of personal development. It was overlooked and only published digitally in 2023 (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

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Megan Rae Blakely @meganraeblakely.bsky.social · Jul 23

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 💜😳

michael veale @michae.lv · Jul 22

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’.

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · Jul 4

Thought provoking piece from my good friend Sanjit here

UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Jul 2

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…

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · Jun 10

I’m seeing a lot of this

Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Alex Sarch @should-b-workin.bsky.social · Jun 10

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

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · May 29

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...

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

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · Apr 27

Bluebells at Rannderdale

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · Apr 25

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...

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · Apr 25

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

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · Mar 27

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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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · Feb 15

Inclusive legal positivism out of control

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CURE Campaign @curecampaign.bsky.social · Feb 13

"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."

Euractiv @euractiv.com · Feb 13

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.

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