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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Great to see the university's spam filter identify this email from the university's own printing service informing me something I urgently needed was ready as spam👏

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Three things are inevitable in life - death, taxes and that the university's results website will crash on results day.

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

I don't think I'll ever be ready random spam email, show me the way

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Huge congratulations to Khaleed Alsufyyan who passed his viva yesterday. His thesis "The Maritime Counterterrorism Governance Mechanisms in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". Supervised by Clive Walker and I. Examined by @alangreene.bsky.social and Alex Batesmith

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

ECHR website appears to be down, weird. (gotta live up to my handle on here)

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Four score and seven years ago to 2025

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Is this a spin off from? pleased to say I wrote 10,000 words on public inquiries which did not contain any pubic inquiries

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

this reads like a transcript of a conversation outside supermacs in limerick city at 3am on a saturday sham

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Maybe I'm not in the right frame of mind for writing the open textbook today...

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Fascinating to see the "we don't need written rights protections, the protections are already there in the common law" argument made by Alexander Hamilton... in 1788. plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Today I'm researching and writing about the backlog of reports pending consideration by the UN treaty bodies, for our open source textbook on human rights law. After seeing some positive recent reductions, it has recently seen a significant increase again.

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Why do I work for an organisation that has repeatedly trained me to carry out manual handling, but has never once trained me how to give a lecture?

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

At last I am back to writing our open textbook on IHRL. Today it's UN treaty body reporting system. Special thanks to @michael-lane.bsky.social for sharing some great open source resources with me. If you have any open source IHRL resources to share please add them to docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

After marking half a million words in May and early June, the end is finally here. If anyone needs me I'll be busy crushing noobs on mario kart world (*getting trolled by a 10 yr old who is much better than me)

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

I mean there is already a UKSC colouring book

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Started geoguessr. First map was about a km from where I used to live 😂

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

My incentive to finish marking by the end of next week

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Getting a bit of work done on the Open Access textbook between waves of marking. Today's subject - the status of the American Declaration on Human Rights. If you have any Open Access literature on human rights you'd like us to consider adding please share it here docs.google.com/document/d/1...

an excerpt from an open access textbook looking at the legal status of the American Declaration on Human Rights

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

One of the unspoken joys of hosting a conference in the North of England is how many Scottish people come along! I'm really looking forward to this event essl.leeds.ac.uk/research-cen...

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

But from 2010 onwards they have resorted to secondary legislation more and more - which is subject to significantly reduced parliamentary scrutiny.

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

In the early days of the HRA, the government used primary legislation most to remedy incompatibilities

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

The data also shows that there has been a significant change in how the government remedies these incompatibilities.

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Secondly, the human rights act has a specific procedure to "fast track" amendments where a declaration of incompatibility has been issued. However the data shows that these remedies are taking on average over 3 years to enter force. So not very fast in reality.

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Firstly, the majority of cases involved violations of the right to private and family life. This article covers a large range of areas with violations relating to criminal record disclosure, discriminatory treatment in housing allocation and quite a few cases on marriage rights.

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

now for the annual game of "find the marking" where have they hidden it this time?

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

No one really talks about the sticking googly eyes to a carrot at 7am on a Sunday morning part of parenthood do they?

a picture of a carrot and crafting materials

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Doing some research on Special Sessions of the UN Human Rights Councils these are crisis meetings crisis meetings to respond to urgent human rights situations - here is a map of all the territories they have related to.

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I will not have a bad word said about The Rock - the film, I don't care about Dwayne. The Rock features possibly the greatest exposition in movie history - why is Ed Harris staring at this grave? - oh right it's "his wife" - carry on

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Microsoft Word is insulting me - that might be good advice for the "normal" people, but not a word nerd

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Those group chat messages from the US are so dystopian, the fist bumping jingoism, the disdain for their allies, the prayers for success, the emojis ... edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/p...

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

We want this to be as accessible to everyone as possible + to fully embrace the online platform. We are looking for high quality open access academic sources - journal articles, books, podcasts, blogs, videos - on a range of topics (see list)

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

The project to catalogue every declaration of incompatibility under the Human Rights Act made by the UK courts may be the death of me. Any suggestions on how best to share this data with everyone once it's done are gratefully received. Google Sheets? 🤔

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

New paper examining the vulnerability of fundamental rights protection in the UK forthcoming in Public Law later this year - papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... thanks to @adamjtucker.bsky.social and the many people at conferences who commented earlier incarnations

A picture of the title of the paper The Human Rights Act under Siege: The Vulnerability of Fundamental Rights Protection under the UK Constitution on the website SSRN

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Dr Stuart Wallace @echrhawk.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

You see the problem is that the UK's separation of powers is characterised by a fusion of executive and legislative powers with a comparatively weak judiciary unable to counter balance it. A clearer separation of powers would be preferable .... not that one

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