The first article coming out of my in-progress PhD thesis is online @SLS_Journal. It narrates efforts by legislative drafter Elmer Driedger and other Canadian officials, in 1946, to formulate constitutional & statutory foundations for regulating cosmetics.

“Practices around academic publishing are part of a wider system of precarious and exploitative labour relations which enable and conceal sexual violence and other forms of abuse, particularly against women, racialised and other marginalised people…” https://t.co/hGCbnxA1ty

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Last year, the criminal courts gave us permission to privately prosecute @SouthernWater for polluting the #River Test.   We’re in Court in Southampton today at the last hearing before trial.    Fish Legal v Southern Water. Criminal Trial 2-5 December 2024.   #makingpolluterspay

Justice for Grenfell. 72 people lost their lives in this preventable tragedy. Victims of corporate greed and institutional neglect.

From tomorrow you’ll be able to listen to the new legal history podcast ‘Not for Want of Trying’ from @DrSharonThomp The podcast covers women's legal landmarks in the interwar years and is co presented by Kent Law School’s @erikarackley:

This looks fab - ‘Not for Want of Trying’ - A brand new legal history podcast that uncovers key events in women’s legal history during the interwar years. https://t.co/m8C2JjXsld

CFP: A Research Handbook on Gender, History, and Law

The longest sentence handed down to a violent racist rioter this week is shorter than the sentences imposed on entirely peaceful environmental protesters last month. Labour must repeal the Tory laws that treat peaceful protest more severely than violent disorder and assault.

Hooray! My book, Law in Common, has just come out in paperback, and is now a mere £30 Some representative index entries: - Custom, acting against - Highways, pigs in - Law-courts, feasting at - Mariners, testimony of - Theft, of eels - Vagabonds https://t.co/E11dNuO20T

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- Serena Williams was accused of being a man when outperforming a white female -Caster Semennya was accused of being a man when outperforming a white female -Imane Khalifa was accused of being a man when outperforming a white female Take what you want from this.

Appeal dismissed means the task for the Canadians remains the same: win. Colombia and Canada have only ever met twice, but given what’s on the line today, it’s a big one. ✍️The showdown preview. https://t.co/HwcF0M8X0I

“Priestman is found responsible for her offensive behaviour and violation of the principles of fair play, loyalty, and integrity in connection with The Canada Soccer Association's Women's representative team's drone”

A nice piece from @fergusonerin, suggesting that public lawyers might need to revisit some debates that have become rather neglected.

As the Olympics begin, a shout-out to one of my favourite pages in the Canadian statute book… the one with the official Montreal Olympic beavers, the Schedule to the Olympic (1976) Act (S.C. 1973-74, c. 31)! https://t.co/9EPHvyj7kk

Many congratulations 🥳 to @KentLawSchool PhD graduates today. What an achievement. So proud of you 💜

#Twitterstorians: a plug for our Michaelmas Term #CfP! 👇 We invite papers from any graduate student or #ECR studying #legalhistory and #socialhistory, each broadly defined and within any place or period! Deadline 1 September. See below for more details.

Law & Humanities enthusiasts, join us on this new initiative! @Law_Cult_Huma @LawLitJournal @LawHistNetwork @lawart @law_humanities @LegalHumanities @mpilhlt

The hearing today was 🔥. Counsel played Rafaat's poem in COURT. Palestinian advocacy is showing that lawyering is not just about arguing about technocratic technicalities & liberal ethics but can be subversive by centring the community’s radical justice discourse