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Benedict Douglas

@benedictdouglas.bsky.social
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Law Lecturer. Trying to work out the nature of being human, sometimes by looking vacantly into space. Unique spellings© www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benedict-dou…

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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Congratulations Alan, I'm delighted to hear this!
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Ben Phillips @benphillips1989.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I'll be there Tue-Thur and looking forward to seeing you!
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Thanks so much for writing this!
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Applying for a grant to conduct research into why applying for a grant is uniquely dispiriting
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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I‘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/...
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Hybrid | CLP - Bureaucracy and Distrust: The Civil Service in the Constitution
This lecture will be delivered by Dr Ben Yong, as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2025-26
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The 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.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
So much of what you say is true for me too. He was so generous with his time and his encouragement meant so much to me.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Whoever wrote this headline deserved the rest of the day off
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Where there’s a will there’s a whey: cheese producers lean into their craft as Trump tariffs bite
Europeans put their faith in centuries-old, all-natural production to maintain US custom
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Academise a book: That's not my Justice or Rationality
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
You can replace the word "sovereignty" with "domination" quite easily in this article
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Lovely use of the phrase "constitutional Tetris" in explaining why lack of effective devolved (and local?) democracy in England enables Farage to stir up xenophobia
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Public Law Publications @publiclawpubs.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Roger Masterman and Matthew Nicholson, "The Dissolution of Dualism" (Cambridge Law Journal, Ahead of Print) Link: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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THE DISSOLUTION OF DUALISM | The Cambridge Law Journal | Cambridge Core
THE DISSOLUTION OF DUALISM
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Joy Twemlow @joytwemlow.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Whenever I’m asked to explain phenomenology
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Prof Deirdre McCann @profmccann.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Must-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/...
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Ticketbooth
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Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Another 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...
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Career Development Fellow in Public Law at Durham University
Searching 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.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Also this unfortunate brand of water sports inflatables
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Jobe® Watersports | Official Website and Shop | Jobesports.com
Shop the full Jobe collection at the official online store. Free delivery from £75. Jobe: Gets you on the water!
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
David Wilkinson? He's lovely.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Jeanette Winterson beautifully foreseeing the problem with AI art and in student essays in 1995
I do not want to argue here about great artists, I want to concentrate on true artists, major or minor, who are connected to the past and who themselves make a connection to the future. The rue artist is connected. The true artist studies the past, not as a copyist or a pasticheur will study the past, those people are interested only in the final product, the art object, signed sealed and delivered to a public drugged on reproduction. The true artist is interested in the art object as an art process, the thing in being, the being of the thing, the struggle, the excitement, the energy, that have found expression in a particular way, The true artist is after the problem. The false artist wants it solved (by somebody else).

Jeanette Winterson, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (Johnathan Cape 1995) 12
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The Assisted Dying Act will only create a general increase in self-determination and liberty if the wider inequalities of our society are addressed
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Jessie Blackbourn @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks 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.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our duty dominated society is not ready for the legalisation of assisted suicide.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Wow, I didn’t find that in my research. I’ll have to have a read. My feeling is that there’s a good argument to be made that it should be the case.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Reskeeting 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.
Tintin and his immediate family member snowy (who is a also dog).
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Barend van Leeuwen @barendvanleeuwen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
The 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
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Call 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.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
It’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
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/05/2025
Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules
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Wild camping on Dartmoor is legal, supreme court rules
Case 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...
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Looking forward to reading this and applying it to animal rights! @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social GEWIRTH REASERCH CLAXON 🚨🐑🚨
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Ha! Ewe-Boats is obvious but I'll take it
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
@drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
That's really interesting, capitalism as constitutional?
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Abstract: Terry Pratchett’s fantasy novels satirise society and question what it is to be a good human...or dwarf, troll, vampire. His most interesting character for lawyers is Death, who speaks in capital letters, for like lawyers he must find a balance between duty and his care for humanity.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I'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
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWH...
Excited man meme summarising the case
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Rereading one of my favourite articles, in which Sir John Laws explains parliamentary sovereignty is like a cat.
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Constitutional 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
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thanks!
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A few years ago I heard someone give a paper which suggests that government spending is a useful indicator of what might be constitutional in the UK's uncertain constitution, the NHS being an example. I wish I could remember who it was.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I've used a punkt for 4 years, great battery life, very sturdy, text, phone, Signal, wifi hotspot for using with a tablet, and people seem to think its cool when the see it.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Standing 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.
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The OJLS is red typos are few law reform needed open access for you
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Love and Human Rights
Abstract. This article explains and critiques the protection of love within judgments concerning relationships under the Human Rights Act 1998. Using theor
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Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Parliament is a ‘they’. But it is also an ‘it’. Trying to expand my audience to public lawyers, parliamentary nerds and … metaphysicians
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Mine is Alice in Wonderland, cited surprisingly frequently by judges
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Could 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...
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A British Trump tribute act could snatch power in the UK
Without a constitution for protection, British politics is vulnerable to its own version of extremism
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Fantastic! I'm really looking forward to reading this!
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Maybe she could feature in a zine version of the thesis
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I'm both relived and disappointed!
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Second Reading @commonslibrary.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The United Kingdom constitution – a mapping exercise commonslibrary.parliament.uk/resear…
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Benedict Douglas @benedictdouglas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Wonderful to see the amazing Dr Kara Woodbury-Smith on bsky @kwhyphens.bsky.social
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(Elizabeth) Chloe Romanis @ecromanis.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
My 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
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