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Fernanda Pirie

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Anthropologist Tibetologist Lawyer.

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Greg @jamyang.net · 29/09/2026
Essential reading: C4ADS' "Monitoring the Frontier" builds an original dataset from PRC government procurement records to map who actually supplies the #surveillance state: #Tibet as prototype, #Xinjiang as scale-up:
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Turquoise Roof @turquoiseroof.org · 28/09/2026
Fieldwork in #Tibet is all but closed to outsiders. @robbiebarnett.bsky.social's The Quiet State asks what research looks like now: open-source reading of the state's own paperwork, & a frank account of what that method can't show. Just published, #OpenAccess: doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Book cover of “The Quiet State: Micro-Surveillance and Normalisation in Tibet” by Robert Barnett, with a foreword by Andrew J. Nathan. White text overlays a blue sky above a dry, rocky hillside bearing large white Chinese and Tibetan lettering. At the bottom are an “Open Access” label and the Palgrave Macmillan logo.
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
An anthropologist capturing the mood in China. And one trained @ox.ac.uk department of anthropology too. Young people in China are fangirling over a professor who gets their anxiety
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 25/08/2026
@fernandapirie.bsky.social will lead an interdisciplinary team @ox.ac.uk to analyse the intriguing laws commissioned by the Fifth Dalai Lama in the seventeenth century, thus illuminating the nature of Tibet’s unique theocracy. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...
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Tibetan law: the exploration of a unique legal system
This project will illuminate the nature of Tibet’s unique theocracy.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
London Economics’ research estimates that the net economic impact per student was circa £100,000 – in other words, “every 10 international students generate £1m worth of net economic impact for the UK economy over the duration of their studies”. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/fall-in...
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Fall in international student numbers ‘cost UK £2.9 billion’
Latest cost-benefit analysis finds overseas enrolments generate nearly 10 times more money for UK than they take away
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Very pleased to be on this list in illustrious company. And the project is going very well, thanks.
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Review of Democracy @revdem2020.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
🎙️ In our new podcast, @fernandapirie.bsky.social discusses the historical roots of the rule of law and what these roots tell us about our present time. 🧑‍⚖️🧑‍⚖️ 🎧 Listen to it now: 👉 tinyurl.com/2pe3syjv
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Attack on Rojava is an attack on hope english.anf-news.com/news/attack-...
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Attack on Rojava is an attack on hope
As a result of various international agreements and directives behind the scenes, the Syrian transitional government of Ahmed al-Sharaa and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have declared war on the Democ...
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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
NEW BLOGPOST Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
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Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
Today, the government has confirmed that it intends to remove the right to trial by jury in the vast majority of cases in the Crown Courts. Serious criminal allegations, carrying up to three years …
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Sad news. William Twining was a much valued Senior Associate @oxfordcsls.bsky.social
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Ros Atkins on... Israel's war in Gaza and proportionality “Israel insists it followed international law throughout this conflict - and that its actions are proportionate. But nearly all of the experts we spoke to aren't convinced.”
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
'my instinct is that our troubled world needs Humanities Studies as much – if not more – than in many past years'. (John Major: johnmajorarchive.org.uk/2025/09/10/s... )
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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 04/09/2025
NEW: An Oxford report warns that misleading media coverage is shaping public debate on immigration and human rights. The study finds the ECHR is frequently misreported in deportation cases, fueling misconceptions that erode trust in the legal system. 🧵 [1/8]
Silhouettes of three people in front of a weathered British flag, with the headline: Misrepresentations around human rights and immigration fuelling calls to quit ECHR, Oxford report finds
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Monica Hakimi @monicahakimi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ingrid and I issued the following statement in the just-released issue of @ajil.bsky.social. A travesty that it has to be said.
Statement on freedom of inquiry
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
A courteous but very impressive rebuke to Nigel Farage from the Bishop of Oxford. "I heard no compassion in what you said...". "I disagree profoundly with your attempts to ... increase fear of the stranger in our communities". Do read. blogs.oxford.anglican.org/an-open-lett...
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An open letter to Nigel Farage - Bishop Steven's Blog
Bishop Steven writes an open letter in response to Nigel Farage MP's immigration policy which was launched in Oxford this week.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Dr. Tarek Loubani, who is in Gaza right now, was invited to give a talk to emergency workers about the attacks on health care facilities in Gaza. But he was instructed - get this - not to say who was doing the attacking. Take a look at how this hero of a human responded: vimeo.com/1112115018/c...
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Stethoscope Story #8
This is "Stethoscope Story #8" by Albino Squirrel Channel on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Very bad news.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 17/08/2025
Want fewer migrants? Say goodbye to: * 30% of our tech workforce;   * 1 in 4 hospitality workers;  * 1 in 5 construction workers; * 16% of the NHS.  Still sound like a good plan? Stephen McNair reports
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Do we really want a big reduction in immigration?
Voters see immigration as the most important issue facing the country. There are things to be done. But can we really afford major reductions?
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/08/2025
‘Graeber does seem to have had most fun as an outsider, a movement anthropologist wending his way among anticapitalist militants, or sitting in on horizontalist spokescouncils, arguing and taking field notes.’ @leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
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Nicholas Witkowski @nwitkowski.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
JOB: Assistant Professor in South/Southeast Asian Religions (w/ focus on Hindu Traditions, defined BROADLY) in my department at the University of San Diego (PLEASE SHARE WIDELY). Apply here: jobs.sandiego.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Delighted #TheRuleofLaws gets a mention in The Economist though the laws of war don’t feature highly. Tricky subject!
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity
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Himal Southasian @himalsouthasian.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
"The personal cost Tsering Döndrup has paid for ‘The Red Wind Howls’ is further evidence, if it were needed, of just how taboo his tale is." Christopher Peacock on Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence:
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Tsering Döndrup’s defiant reckoning with Tibet’s legacy of violence
I FIRST MET Tsering Döndrup at his home in Xining – the largest city on the Tibetan Plateau, located in Qinghai province in western China. This was in early 201
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Why the UK won’t face hyperinflation – even with government money creation youtu.be/Jkx2YzakYNg?... Hyperinflation is the scare story threatened by those who want to stop government spending. But it’s just that: a scare story.
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Why the UK won’t face hyperinflation – even with government money creation
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
This is an important piece from a senior Holocaust scholar (who grew up in Israel and is an IDF veteran), and it’s important that it’s published in the NYT.
To this day, only a few scholars of the Holocaust, and no institution dedicated to researching and commemorating it, has issued a warning that Israel could be accused of carrying out war crimes, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. This silence has made a mockery of the slogan “Never again,” transforming its meaning from an assertion of resistance to inhumanity wherever it is perpetrated to an excuse, an apology, indeed, even a carte blanche for destroying others by invoking one’s own past victimhood.What I fear is that in the aftermath of the Gaza genocide, it will no longer be possible to continue teaching and researching the Holocaust in the same manner we did before. Because the Holocaust has been so relentlessly invoked by the State of Israel and its defenders as a cover-up for the crimes of the I.D.F., the study and remembrance of the Holocaust could lose its claim to be concerned with universal justice and retreat into the same ethnic ghetto in which it began its life at the end of World War II — as a marginalized preoccupation by the remnants of a marginalized people, an ethnically specific event, before it succeeded, decades later, to find its rightful place as a lesson and a warning for humanity as a whole.
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Splendid surroundings to hear the AG reaffirm the UK’s commitment to the rule of law and Venice Commission. And glad to be able to offer socio-legal and historical perspective. @oxfordcsls.bsky.social
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The corporations aiding genocide www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/07...
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The corporations aiding genocide
I never imagined I would read a report like this in my lifetime, and yet it is in The Guardian, is corroborated elsewhere, and it is about a plan put forward by the Israeli government, with no doubt t...
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Glad to have been able to sign this.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
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UK must impose sanctions on Israel to meet legal obligations, say more than 800 lawyers
Exclusive: Letter to PM signed by retired supreme court justices among others says lack of action will imperil international legal system
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Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' ends US democracy. What happens next? youtu.be/JrpgSR0Y8Ms?...
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Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill' ends US democracy. What happens next?
YouTube video by Richard J Murphy
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
👏👏👏 Harvard rejects Trump administration's sweeping demands for change
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Bo Tiojanco @botiojanco.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Wonderful dinner discussing everything from Russian literature to legal history with @fernandapirie.bsky.social , Nick, and Kentaro.
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Really delighted that the Leverhulme Trust has agreed to fund my new project on historic Tibetan law at @oxfordcsls.bsky.social It will follow my start-up project with the John Fell Fund: www.law.ox.ac.uk/law-historic...
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Law in historic Tibet: translating the Dalai
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Matthew Erie @matthewserie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
How is this happening in the USA??
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"The administration has weaponized the fight against antisemitism as a means to another end: punishing and weakening universities." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.
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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Big responsibility here of anglophone jurisprudents, who have for decades and decades split hairs about the dangers of judicial discretion while completely neglecting the much more systemic risks associated with discretion in the administrative state
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is bound to be thought provoking. He gave us a taste of it at @oxfordcsls.bsky.social
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Blog of the European Society for Comparative Legal History @esclh.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
ESCLH CONFERENCE 2025: Registration open [DEADLINE 15 MAR 2025] esclh.blogspot.com/2025/02/escl...
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ESCLH CONFERENCE 2025: Registration open [DEADLINE 15 MAR 2025]
(image source: University of Szeged ) The registration  module for the Biennial ESCLH Conference in Szeged is now open. More information h...
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Becoming homeless due to Russian air strikes - bad & sad, you may come and stay. Becoming homeless due to Israeli air strikes - you brought it on yourself, clear off. We are witnessing a grotesque spectacle at the moment www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Keir Starmer pledges to close loophole that let Gazan family settle in UK
The family won an appeal to come to the UK, after originally applying through a scheme for Ukrainians.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🔥 A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context – this isn’t journalism, it’s neglect
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Poor coverage of Gaza at the BBC: failures of journalism
A BBC report on the ceasefire in Gaza fails to fact check Israeli violations, while obscuring key context – this isn’t journalism, it’s neglect
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Glad to see the American Bar Association taking a stand.
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
My Tibetan Law web-site has a new look and more accessible content, thanks to excellent work by Daniel Wojahn. tibetanlaw.org/home
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The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Intermediate courts aren't the answer. Changing the fundamental structure of delivering criminal justice is not a principled response to a crisis that wasn't caused by that structure in the first place. We've set out alternative recommendations in our submission to Leveson's review⬇️ bit.ly/4hnvOKT
Image of the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly known as the Old Bailey, with a statue on top, under a clear blue sky. Overlay text states 'Juryless trials ‘not the answer’ to court crisis, Bar Council warns.'
Quote by Barbara Mills KC about the justice system, advocating for alternative approaches to intermediate courts. Quote is displayed in a pink square with quotation marks.
Image displaying a quote by Michelle Heeley KC from the Bar Council Leveson review working group. The text calls for criminal justice system reform, advocating for a focus on alternatives to incarceration and prioritization of mental health and drug addiction issues.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Labour MPs pressure Starmer to call out Trump's Gaza remarks as 'ethnic cleansing' 'Either you stand for international law and basic human decency, or you don’t,' says Clive Lewis after President proposes 'takeover' inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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Labour MPs pressure Starmer to call out Trump's Gaza remarks as 'ethnic cleansing'
'Either you stand for international law and basic human decency, or you don’t,' says Clive Lewis after President proposes 'takeover'
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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 05/02/2025
At a moment when we desperately need a fragile truce to hold, Trump’s ramblings on Gaza risk having the effect of a bull in a china shop. The UK needs to make clear that these proposals must be rejected, and that we support international law and a two state solution based on 1967 borders.
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Come and hear Tom Lambert, expert on medieval law, speaking on 'Law and Disputing in Early Medieval Britain'. 5.30pm, Manor Road Building, Oxford. www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Law and Disputing in Early Medieval Britain |
Refer to the CSLS Seminar Series Hilary Term Card for the full list of events in the series. If
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Excited to be convening this term's seminars at the @oxfordcsls.bsky.social in conjunction with the Oxford Legal History Forum. We have an excellent line-up of speakers, starting today.
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Good. Davey urges Starmer to start EU customs union talks
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Fernanda Pirie @fernandapirie.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We can’t wait to welcome Martti Koskenniemi to Oxford CSLS.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
We did not have a FAA administrator to respond to the tragic crash last night in DC. Why? Because Elon Musk pushed the head appointed under Biden to resign after he fined SpaceX for failing to follow safety license requirements. www.theverge.com/news/603113/...
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The FAA is facing a major crisis without a leader because Elon Musk pushed him out
FAA chief Michael Whitaker resigned earlier this month after facing criticism from Musk.
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