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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 5d

Today, @ezemonti.bsky.social and I will host Alex Guerrero (Rutgers) at the Legal Philosoph Trident Seminar Series. There's still time to register. Don't miss what promises to be an excellent seminar!

Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 9d

On Friday (October 3rd), we are kicking off the LPT Seminar Series with Alex Guerrero (Rutgers), who will discuss a dilemma voters face between voting instrumentally or as true believers. The seminar is online and open all. You can register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 9d

On Friday (October 3rd), we are kicking off the LPT Seminar Series with Alex Guerrero (Rutgers), who will discuss a dilemma voters face between voting instrumentally or as true believers. The seminar is online and open all. You can register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

LPT - Seminar Series

2025-26 Seminar Series

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 Just out in Jurisprudence: a special issue, edited by D. Dyzenhaus and G.B. Ratti, devoted to the close relationship between HLA Hart and Norberto Bobbio.

It comprises a.o. the translations into English of five essays by Bobbio, substantial excerpts from the Hart-Bobbio correspondence...

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · Sep 6

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky.

@xphijournal.bsky.social

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Please share!

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you @miottoluc.bsky.social and @philosophy-law.bsky.social for this conversation! I loved talking to Legal Phi about my work.

Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Sep 2

A new Legal-Phi interview is out! We spoke with Alma Diamond
about how practices shape obligations, constitutional meaning, and much more. Check it out 👇https://legalphi.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/alma-diamond-practices-obligations-and-constitutions/

Alma Diamond: Practices, Obligations, and Constitutions

It is a pleasure to have Alma Diamond as our next interviewee. Alma obtained her LLM and JSD from NYU School of Law, where her dissertation was supervised by Jeremy Waldron. She has taught at the U…

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Sep 2

A new Legal-Phi interview is out! We spoke with Alma Diamond
about how practices shape obligations, constitutional meaning, and much more. Check it out 👇https://legalphi.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/alma-diamond-practices-obligations-and-constitutions/

Alma Diamond: Practices, Obligations, and Constitutions

It is a pleasure to have Alma Diamond as our next interviewee. Alma obtained her LLM and JSD from NYU School of Law, where her dissertation was supervised by Jeremy Waldron. She has taught at the U…

legalphi.wordpress.com

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Stoo Goff ➡️ Orbtoberfest @stoogoff.com · Aug 14

This site has been a joy this week: wiby.me. It's a search engine which skips the corporate web and just looks for the amateur / hobbyist web that's still out there but doesn't appear in popular search engine results. I've used the Surprise Me function to read about a random thing everyday

Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.

wiby.me

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Aug 13

You can find the registration links on our website: sites.google.com/view/lptride...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Aug 13

@ezemonti.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce the 2025-26 Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar Series Line-up & Schedule. Details below:

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Hrafn Asgeirsson @hrafnasgeirsson.bsky.social · Jul 9

The Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy continues to grow - welcome Leah! And more news to follow...

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We’re delighted to share that Leah Trueblood (DPhil, Oxon) has officially joined the School of Law, University of Surrey and is now a member of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy! | Surrey Centr...

We’re delighted to share that Leah Trueblood (DPhil, Oxon) has officially joined the School of Law, University of Surrey and is now a member of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy! 🎉 Leah brings...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · May 12

Looking forward to this!

Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · May 12

Our Legal Theory Festival starts 3 weeks today! We've workshops on Methodology in General Jurisprudence, Jurisprudence by Experiment, Conforming Interpretation and Human Rights, Contemporary Critical Legal Theory, and Grotius' "The Rights of War and Peace", as well as a Keynote by David Dyzenhaus.

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Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · May 12

The workshop on Jurisprudence by Experiment is on Monday 2nd June @ 2-5.15pm and is organised by Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social (Surrey) and our own Tsampika Taralli. Speakers include Eleonore Neufeld (UMass), Jonathan Ichikawa (UBC), Guilherme Almeida (Insper), and Karolina Prochownik (Ruhr).

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · May 5

Simon Palmer (Surrey) is presenting his "Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority?" this Friday (09/05) at the Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar Series. This promises to be excellent. Registration and more info here: forms.gle/5GmRvPW7aepj...

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LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Simon Palmer)

LPT Seminar w/ Simon Palmer (Surrey) Title: Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority? Time: Friday, 09 May 2025 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registered participa...

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Ezequiel Monti @ezemonti.bsky.social · Mar 19

On 28 March, Daniel Wodak will be presenting his paper 'Malapportionment: A Murder Mystery' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion!

Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Feb 14

Next Friday (21/02/25 - 17:00 UK), the Legal Philosophy Trident will host Nina Varsava (Wisconsin), who will present her "Stare Decisis and Egregiously Errouneous Precedents". All are welcome to join. Register via the form below: forms.gle/tFjk9L9PaXb4...

LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Nina Varsava)

LPT Seminar w/ Nina Varsava (Wisconsin) Title: Stare Decisis and Egregiously Erroneous Precedents Time: Friday, 21 February 2025 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registere...

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · Feb 10

In the fifth post of the series, Himani Bhakuni (York) reflects on the case of unhealthy diets and asks: why shouldn't the government use legislation (rather than just advice) to prevent significant individual and social harm from the consumption of ultra-processed foods?

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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Feb 10

Himani Bhakuni: The Legitimacy of Exclusively Using Soft Law: The Case of Unhealthy Diets ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/02/10/h...

Himani Bhakuni: The Legitimacy of Exclusively Using Soft Law: The Case of Unhealthy Diets

*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘The Rule of Guidance?’. The other posts in the series will be available here. The distinction between hard and soft law that permeates discussions…

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UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · Feb 10

Himani Bhakuni: The Legitimacy of Exclusively Using Soft Law: The Case of Unhealthy Diets ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/02/10/h...

Himani Bhakuni: The Legitimacy of Exclusively Using Soft Law: The Case of Unhealthy Diets

*Editors’ note – this post is part of a series on ‘The Rule of Guidance?’. The other posts in the series will be available here. The distinction between hard and soft law that permeates discussions…

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · Dec 14

Dear academics

We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists.

This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by…

*checks notes*

…every other industry on earth.

David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · Dec 14

Who is for abolishing grad app letters of rec at the point of application? Would it be so bad if letters were requested AFTER candidates were shortlisted? If we do this at UCSD who will join us?

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Antonia Waltermann 🟥 @amwaltermann.com · Nov 29

The right-wing Dutch gov is planning huge budget cuts to (higher) education. I'm posting a picture every (other) day from protests against these cuts until a. the cuts are off the table, b. the gov falls or c. I run out of pictures.

#WOinActie 🟥

While marching towards the ministry of education as part of the big protest against the budget cuts to higher education by the Dutch government, a protester holds up a sign saying "democracy needs unruly thought"

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Nov 26

Can I be added as well? Great initiative! Thanks for that.

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Nov 21

More info about the LPT: More info: sites.google.com/view/lptride...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Nov 21

Hi Bluesky folks,
Tomorrow (Nov 22nd 5PM UK time) the Legal Philosophy Trident will host Filippa Ronquist (UCL) as part of our seminar series. She will present her draft titled "Authority and Categorical Reasons".
You can register here: forms.gle/coUxKPtxKLJs...

LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Filippa Ronquist)

LPT Seminar w/ Filippa Ronquist (UCL) Title: Authority and Categorical Reasons Time: Friday, 22 November 2024 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registered participants by e...

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Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · Nov 19

Here’s some pictures from our annual Disputationes! It was great to learn more about our PhD candidates’ research and to engage in thought-provoking discussions with our colleagues from Glasgow and Surrey. Looking forward to next year!

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · Nov 5

Join us on Nov 22nd (5pm UK) for another Legal Philosophy Trident seminar. Our guest will be Filippa Ronquist (UCL), who will present her draft paper titled "Authority and Categorical Reasons". Register here: forms.gle/coUxKPtxKLJs...

More info: sites.google.com/view/lptride...

LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Filippa Ronquist)

LPT Seminar w/ Filippa Ronquist (UCL) Title: Authority and Categorical Reasons Time: Friday, 22 November 2024 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registered participants by e...

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