The monograph stemming from my PhD, 'International Human Rights Law and Destitution: An Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Perspective', is published today. https://t.co/uGOrEnGU8I

ManReg and the @MALG_UoM recently co-hosted a brilliant seminar by Professor Andrew Harding (NUS), on the topic of “Common Law Transplantation and the Interface with Customary Law in SE Asia”. @uomsoss

This article explores grounding the right to #Internet access in the right to an adequate standard of living, arguing that it is adaptable to #technological & societal progress. Read: https://t.co/tZ5I9rJtZd Subscribe: https://t.co/Q0kX31RsJZ #LawTwitter

The call for papers for the @SLSA_UK annual conference closes on Thursday 18th December 2025. The convenors for the "Social Rights, Citizenship and the Welfare State" Stream, @JenSigafoos, @JamesOrgan9 and I, are pleased to invite abstracts https://t.co/uk4IdXseQ3

Happy to share that my book on copyright law and digital heritage is published by @hartpublishing It is part of the Art Law Library series @IAL_art_law Available Open Access @law_uom @ManchesterCLAB

We are proud to announce that a Manchester team comprising @GuyJBaldwin (PI), Luke Graham, @Shiling_XiaoUoM , Robert Thomas and Javier Garcia Oliva have been awarded a Manchester-Melbourne-Toronto Research Fund grant. (1/2)

I'm delighted to have been awarded a Yorke Prize by @cambridgelaw for my PhD thesis, "The Justification and Limits of Liberty of Conscience". A monograph based on the thesis will be published in 2026 with @hartpublishing

ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING. #oafc

Delighted that @AtihaChaudry & I have received funding for “Unbound Futures’ a Pilot project supporting Pakistani women micro-entrepreneurs in Greater Manchester by raising their awareness of their rights under UK DMCCA. This will be an exciting 12 months! @uomsoss @law_uom

This shift in Jobcentre culture & priorities would be very welcome, but the positive agenda set out in last year's DWP White Paper is going to be so much harder to realise in the context of the benefit cuts & increased conditionality announced since then

Last week, ManReg ( https://t.co/MqVgnCYwSK) welcomed Carmen Fernandez, Lecturer and PhD (c) from the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville) and discussed her research on “Deepfake pornography in the Spanish Criminal system: The problem of the legally protected interest”

For the final ManReg Public Law Seminar Series event of the academic year, we welcomed Dr Daniella Lock (KCL) to Manchester, where she delivered a captivating and insightful talk on “UK National Security, Private Actors and the Law”.

We were delighted to host Professor Krisztina Rozsnyai recently in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series, for a fascinating talk entitled "Saving Hungarian Courts from the European Level: Mission Impossible?"

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Ahead of the HC debate on Fri 16 May, I’d like to share this article again👇⁦@uomsoss⁩ ⁦@law_uom⁩ Assisted dying, vulnerability, and the potential value of prospective legal authorization | Medical Law Review | Oxford Academic

Tax cuts for the rich lead to higher income inequality. However, they do not have any significant effect on economic growth or unemployment. Empirical evidence for advanced economies over 1965-2015:

I spoke to @Smyth_Chris for this @thetimes piece on the rising numbers of people claiming Personal Independence Payment (PIP) for anxiety & depression (link to the article at the end of this thread) Here are the five key things we need to consider to understand this trend... 🧵

We are kicking off our disability benefits roundtable discussion with our N.Ireland colleagues @jrf_uk, hearing from @IainKPorter, @PollardTom and Edel Harris, on how the Green Paper proposals will impact N.Ireland. Looking forward to discussions this afternoon w stakeholders.

Thanks to Professor Stephanie Barclay (Georgetown) for her excellent presentation entitled "Reflections on the USA Constitution and the Role of the Judiciary" yesterday in the ManReg Public Law Seminar Series at the University of Manchester

UK welfare reforms threaten health of the most vulnerable | The BMJ