It's finally here! Available at book shops, online, and as part of Cambridge Core: Explanations for things you didn't know you didn't know about tort and crime! Here with the earlier 2 books https://t.co/QP9yozMovS

What is life worth? How does law - tort rules & legal system - attribute financial value to loss of life, in a national tragedy? Fab new @law_humanities arts review coming soon by Prof Matt Dyson @OxfordLawFac @1mattdyson re film ‘Worth’ now on @netflix :

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To honor the passing of Colin Renfrew I'm revisiting some of his important work on the illicit antiquities trade over the years. A thread...

New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland. The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.

Dirk Heirbaut - Redefining Codification A Comparative History of Civil, Commercial, and Procedural Codes À paraître en janvier aux Oxford UP

REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, "Back to the Past and Building the Future" (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024)

We are absolutely overjoyed to invite you to the inaugural Selden's Sister annual lecture, to be given by none other than the legend that is the Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond. The 200-year struggle for mothers’ rights Liverpool, 14 Nov, 3pm, hybrid, free 1/2

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89

@ABC RIP James Earl Jones 🙏💔

Teenagers and 20 somethings who roll your eyes when your dad makes the same shit jokes repeatedly. He's doing it because you once laughed at those jokes, you've just forgotten, and he's not sure how to make you laugh any more.

Another day, another internet full of accounts professing shock and dismay at our two-tier, totalitarian state in which you can’t even engage in a little bit of racist arson-y violent disorder without the old bill sticking their noses in. Some truth to throw in the mix:

We are delighted to have awarded the 2024 Sir Anthony Hart Doctoral Paper Prize to Ms Rhiannon Ogden-Jones The prize was awarded for the best paper by a student at the British Legal History Conference https://t.co/ulbsJIBJxT

Actually, its only a Portillo Moment if it comes from the Portilleux region in France otherwise its just sparkling seat loss

This might just be the best Q&A the @guardian magazine have ever done 😂

Good afternoon! I, functionally a very stereotypical white British woman, am at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Come along with me and we’ll count how many artefacts I’m banned from seeing. (spoiler: it’s zero)

CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE (Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024)

📹| Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Andrew Scott running back to the tent for Style 😂

We could end up with a situation in which the votes are distributed: 1. Labour 2. Reform 3. Tories 4. LibDems But the seats in Parliament are distributed: 1. Labour 2. LibDems 3. Tories 4. Reform It will bring cries for PR from a different voter group than usual.

Inaugural Annual Oxford Programme in Asian Laws Lecture: Territorial Governance in Southeast Asia, by Andrew Harding (NUS), 5 July 2024, 17:00 - 18:15, White & Case Room, Oxford.

Huge congratulations to @kirkkorner, who has tirelessly campaigned to expose the failings of the “Single Justice Procedure” - a cost-saving gimmick introduced in magistrates’ courts, which has resulted in widespread injustice occurring behind closed doors. Outstanding