Reposted by Benedict DouglasBen Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide. 16231273
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Applying for a grant to conduct research into why applying for a grant is uniquely dispiriting 020
Reposted by Benedict DouglasBen Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 06/10/2025I‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair! www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...ucl.ac.ukHybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the ConstitutionThis lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26 55026
Reposted by Benedict DouglasColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children. 1918050
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Whoever wrote this headline deserved the rest of the day offtheguardian.comWhere there’s a will there’s a whey: cheese producers lean into their craft as Trump tariffs biteEuropeans put their faith in centuries-old, all-natural production to maintain US custom 040
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Academise a book: That's not my Justice or Rationality 120
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025You can replace the word "sovereignty" with "domination" quite easily in this article 020
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025Lovely use of the phrase "constitutional Tetris" in explaining why lack of effective devolved (and local?) democracy in England enables Farage to stir up xenophobia 055
Reposted by Benedict DouglasPublic Law Publications @publiclawpubs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Roger Masterman and Matthew Nicholson, "The Dissolution of Dualism" (Cambridge Law Journal, Ahead of Print) Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgTHE DISSOLUTION OF DUALISM | The Cambridge Law Journal | Cambridge CoreTHE DISSOLUTION OF DUALISM 176
Reposted by Benedict DouglasJoy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Whenever I’m asked to explain phenomenology 062
Reposted by Benedict DouglasProf Deirdre McCann @profmccann.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Must-see Magna Carta event at Durham Cathedral on 15th October : Henry Jones @durham-university.bsky.social, @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & @benedictdouglas.bsky.social on Magna Carta's contemporary relevance, chaired by @thombrooks.bsky.social. Tickets: durhamcathedral.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...durhamcathedral.ticketsolve.comTicketbooth 052
Reposted by Benedict DouglasAileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Another opportunity to join Durham Law School as a three-year career development fellow in public law. A great Law School and a vibrant public law community with opportunities to teach in both core and optional modules, and excellent support for research. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX378/c...jobs.ac.ukCareer Development Fellow in Public Law at Durham UniversitySearching for an academic job? Explore this Career Development Fellow in Public Law opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs. 12016
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 23/06/2025Jeanette Winterson beautifully foreseeing the problem with AI art and in student essays in 1995 010
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025The Assisted Dying Act will only create a general increase in self-determination and liberty if the wider inequalities of our society are addressed 011
Reposted by Benedict DouglasJessie Blackbourn @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Thanks to @publiclaw.bsky.social for publishing my article on decision making under the Prevent and Channel duties. So long in the writing that the Prevent Duty guidance and definition of extremism were updated and a review of Prevent was published, which didn't slow things down further at all. 0188
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Our duty dominated society is not ready for the legalisation of assisted suicide. 030
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Reskeeting for my UG Intro to Law class who had to do a problem question on whether Tintin could claim as a secondary victim if he suffered psychiatric injury if he saw Snowy injured in an accident. 150
Reposted by Benedict DouglasBarend van Leeuwen @barendvanleeuwen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025The Common Market Law Review has just published my new article: "Repositioning Free Movement of Services: A Substantive Perspective on the Structure and Dynamics of the Internal Market" kluwerlawonline.com/journalartic... @delidurham.bsky.social 082
Reposted by Benedict DouglasColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July. 23832
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025It’s good to see the Committee explicitly recognise the existence or level of a Minimum Income Requirement is an ethical decision, as well as a political one. Preventing people from living with their family based on how much they earn is unethical, this should guide the political debate & decision 020
Reposted by Benedict DouglasThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/05/2025Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rulestheguardian.comWild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rulesCase came to supreme court after court of appeal determined the term ‘open-air recreation’ included camping Wild camping will be allowed on Dartmoor after the supreme court ruled that a multimillionaire landowner was wrong to ban it on his land. Dartmoor was – until the legal action – the only place in England where wild camping without the permission of the landowner was enshrined in law. In Scotland, people have enjoyed this right since 2003. Continue reading... 924959
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025Looking forward to reading this and applying it to animal rights! @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social GEWIRTH REASERCH CLAXON 🚨🐑🚨 031
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 09/04/2025I'm giving a magic little paper tomorrow at 3pm: "NO JUSTICE, JUST US: Death & Love in Terry Pratchett's Discworld" Drop me a message me if you'd like a link 291
Reposted by Benedict DouglasRichard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 08/04/2025www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH... 76612
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025Rereading one of my favourite articles, in which Sir John Laws explains parliamentary sovereignty is like a cat.academic.oup.comConstitutional Guarantees*What I am going to talk about in this lecture is prompted by a very old chestnut. It consists in two linked questions: how, if at all, can special status b 010
Reposted by Benedict DouglasEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Standing up to the authoritarian wave requires more than cheerleading for democracy; it demands making democratic societies more participatory, responsive, and adaptable at all levels, from local to national, in response to the societal shifts driven by the Internet over the past 15 years. 341408400
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The OJLS is red typos are few law reform needed open access for youdoi.orgLove and Human RightsAbstract. This article explains and critiques the protection of love within judgments concerning relationships under the Human Rights Act 1998. Using theor 050
Reposted by Benedict DouglasBen Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Parliament is a ‘they’. But it is also an ‘it’. Trying to expand my audience to public lawyers, parliamentary nerds and … metaphysicians 73516
Reposted by Benedict DouglasAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Could it happen here? Could a Trump tribute act smash codes, conventions and laws in the UK? All too easily, I suspect. My column www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...prospectmagazine.co.ukA British Trump tribute act could snatch power in the UKWithout a constitution for protection, British politics is vulnerable to its own version of extremism 1512147
Reposted by Benedict DouglasSecond Reading @commonslibrary.bsky.social · 24/01/2025The United Kingdom constitution – a mapping exercise commonslibrary.parliament.uk/resear… 011
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Wonderful to see the amazing Dr Kara Woodbury-Smith on bsky @kwhyphens.bsky.social 120
Reposted by Benedict Douglas(Elizabeth) Chloe Romanis @ecromanis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025My book is out today! 🌱 it’s about ontologies of gestation, and the classification, regulation and implications of technologies enabling gestation 🌱 the work was supported by research fellowships at @petrieflomcenter.bsky.social & E&L Safra Center & The Future of Human Reproduction project 78619
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 02/12/2024The Gavle Goat is on bsky, it’s an advent calendar with the mild peril of sudden spontaneous combustion 14519
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 27/11/2024The UK’s culture means some people are likely to choose assisted dying because they feel they have a "duty to die". The safeguards in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill do not address this. In this post I suggest constitutional change is a way to reduce the dangerdurham.ac.ukThe Need for a Constitutional Solution to the “Duty to Die” Concern - Durham University 110
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Very true, which is why Durham staff and students created a guide to the UK Constitution with pictures! @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...durham.ac.ukUK Constitution Zine - Durham University 4238
Reposted by Benedict DouglasRuth Houghton @ruthhoughton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024"Constitutional change, property, dissent, inequality and revolution are not the B-plot of the #Barbie film". New article by me, @colinmurray.bsky.social and @aoifemod.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comKenstituent power: an exploration of feminist constitutional change in Barbie - Ruth Houghton, C. R. G. Murray, Aoife O’Donoghue, 2024Greta Gerwig’s Barbie explores the influence of childhood dream worlds and toys over adult life, and the singular importance of a toy which represents an empowe... 0176
Reposted by Benedict DouglasColin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Wearing pink for publication day! New out from @ruthhoughton.bsky.social, @aoifemod.bsky.social and me, our meditation on gender, power relations and constitutional change in #Barbie. Just because it's fun, this doesn't mean it's not also serious... journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 12011
Reposted by Benedict DouglasUK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Ben Yong: The quiet demise of constitutional boilerplate: or How special advisers can get their groove back ukconstitutionallaw.org/2024/11/13/b...ukconstitutionallaw.orgBen Yong: The quiet demise of constitutional boilerplate: or How special advisers can get their groove backSometimes we are so focused on big changes that we miss the mundane ones. But we shouldn’t. Sometimes a mundane change can tell us something about the character of a set of arrangements. The new U… 066
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 05/11/2024Every time someone uses the word "business" to describe what a university does an idea dies. 021
Reposted by Benedict DouglasUK Constitution Zine @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social · 04/11/2024UK Constitution Zines off to Glasgow and Cornwall! 001
Reposted by Benedict DouglasAoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 04/11/2024My piece in the NILQ on the last #Trump term & tyrannical intent. Looking back the volume of things that happened is almost incredible - which is part of the issue - tyrannophobia - or the foolish fear of #tyranny #authoritarianism is nonsense - it should be feared! nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni... 2138
Reposted by Benedict DouglasJosh Jowitt @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social · 29/10/2024This one's special to me. When I rocked up to Cambridge as a first-gen student from Barnsley back in '06 I never thought I'd end up publishing in the Cambridge Law Journal. But here I am - my musings on inventorship for AI in the UKSC Thaler decision: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgTOMORROW YOU SHALL CEASE TO BE A MARIONETTE, AND YOU SHALL BECOME AN INVENTOR | The Cambridge Law Journal | Cambridge CoreTOMORROW YOU SHALL CEASE TO BE A MARIONETTE, AND YOU SHALL BECOME AN INVENTOR - Volume 83 Issue 2 051
Reposted by Benedict DouglasPatrick Smith @drpaddysmith.bsky.social · 22/10/2024"Hello, is that Colin Archer? I'm an author of sailing-based adventure stories and I'd like to order a yacht." "Certainly. What sort of thing will you be using it for?" "Err, mostly leisure. Family cruises, weekends away. The armed liberation of Ireland." 3636
Reposted by Benedict Douglas@ICONSGBIE @iconsgbie.bsky.social · 21/10/2024Call for Papers 🔊 PGR/ECR WORKSHOP 30 April 2025 at the LSE in London 166
Reposted by Benedict DouglasThe Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 17/10/2024look at this absolute unit 337161343387
Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 12/10/2024So excited to take the @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social to its first zine fair in Leeds today! 030
Reposted by Benedict DouglasJaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social · 08/10/2024Battle of the giants... 142
Reposted by Benedict DouglasBen Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 01/10/2024Yay! Edited with @patrickcobrien.bsky.social; contributors incl Lord Sales, @aileenmcharg.bsky.social, Caroline Morris, @conormccormick.bsky.social, @chrismccork.bsky.social, Conor Gearty, Hélène Tyrell, Conall Mallory, Mara Malagodi, Meghan Campbell, Paul Daly, @efieldingd.bsky.social, Sionaidh DG 13312