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@jenhendry.bsky.social
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Professor, CUHK Law | Visiting Professor, University of Leeds School of Law | Co-Editor-in-Chief, German Law Journal | Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers | Scot in Hong Kong, occasionally Yorkshire.

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Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This award is an unexpected honour - one for which I am joining pretty exalted company in terms of previous winners. Buy the book here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
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Statehood as Political Community
Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Statehood as Political Community
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
This is wonderful but actually fuck Reform for pulling this outdated discriminatory shit in the first place www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners
Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money
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Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Our book, Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law has just come out in paperback and is staggeringly cheap! Buy it now and help fund my future retirement.
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
New on the JLS blog: our Meet the Book Authors post celebrating the paperback release (May 22, 2026) of our 2024 hardback Routledge publication Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/legal-p... @glexareen.bsky.social
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Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law | Journal of Law and Society
Alex Green (文浩航)* and Jennifer Hendry (文林言)** * Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Academic Associat ...
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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:
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The Disappearance of the Public Bench
Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Opened my old institutional email account for the first time in a while and I have a load of increasingly frantic review requests from different journals. Journal review platforms need to have a better system for accommodating/noting out-of-office replies / changes of contact info.
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Christian Boulanger @cmboulanger.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Thoughtful review of "Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives", Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jennifer Hendry (Eds.) (by Stewart Field, Cardiff) ds.hypotheses.org/18436
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Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives | Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jennifer Hendry (Eds.)
Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jennifer Hendry (Eds.), Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: Hart Publishing; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025, coll. “Oñati ...
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Privileged to attend the official launch of the Asian Legal History Association at CUHK Faculty of Law this morning, and to hear Prof Renisa Mawani deliver the inaugural conference’s keynote lecture this afternoon. Congratulations to all involved in such a successful event.
Big screen showing ‘Official Launch of the Asian Legal History Association’ 17 March 2026, plus the CUHK Law 20th anniversary logo and the logo of the ALHA.
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Such a pleasure for @glexareen.bsky.social & me to participate in the USQ-hosted workshop ‘Deliberation & Contestation in Multinational Democracies’ and present (the latest instalment of) our work on the limits of legal pluralism. Many thanks to the participants for the engagement & feedback.
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Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Many thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts to @jenhendry.bsky.social and me for "Global Law and Particular Legalities: Essays in Honour of William Twining". We received an overwhelming number of submissions (well over 80 abstracts), with a very high standard of work across the board. 1/2
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Baby octopus @mancalled.horse · 20/01/2026
We're overjoyed to announce that we are going to create the Foucault's Panopticon, from Foucault's classic cautionary essay For Fucks Sake Don't Let Them Create The Panopticon
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
10am meeting on January 2 is cruel & unusual punishment for a Scot…
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Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🚨🚨 Call for papers!!! 🚨🚨 Together with @jenhendry.bsky.social, I am excited to ask for contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Law, dedicated to the legacy of the late and wonderful William Twining. Full details to follow:
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Very much enjoyed giving the keynote at the Cultivating Research Impact in Socio-Legal Studies workshop at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Justice Innovation. Many thanks to Genevieve Grant & Marc Trabsky for the invitation, and to participants for the great questions.
Shot showing screen, lectern, and participants at the Cultivating Research Impact in Socio-Legal Studies workshop at Monash UniversityFront page of the workshop schedule, showing the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation logo and the title of my keynote: Both Accident & Design: Intentionality, Agility, & Serendipity in Cultivating Socio-Legal Impact.
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Can’t stop watching the Scotland goals 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙌 4️⃣-2️⃣🎉
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
📣School of Law academic in the news! Our Professor @drmitchtravis.bsky.social is quoted in this @theguardian.com piece discussing the policy and legality of surgeries conducted on intersex children 👇 tinyurl.com/47uhv7ur @lsjleeds.bsky.social
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‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children
What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Many many congratulations to my good friend @drmitchtravis.bsky.social on his promotion to Professor. I had the privilege of working with Mitch for the bones of a decade and this recognition of both his talent & hard work is extremely well deserved. 👏👏👏
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Christian Boulanger @cmboulanger.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Over at the JLS-Blog, we published some thoughts on our recently published edited volume on "Socio-legal Trajectories Across Europe" @naomialderman.bsky.social @jenhendry.bsky.social journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/meet-th...
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Meet the book editors - Socio-legal trajectories across Europe: comparative perspectives | Journal of Law and Society
Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jen Hendry (L-R) Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jen Hendry Socio-legal trajectories across Europe: co ...
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 31/10/2025
NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.
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Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students
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Justin Raden @jraden.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social
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Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector
If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...
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Gender and Justice Journal @genderandjustice.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Now Open @elengebretsen.bsky.social @martindimarco.bsky.social @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social @jenhendry.bsky.social @sandraduffy.bsky.social @kirstenwidner.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social @racheljwechsler.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Interested in PG study or doctoral research at #CUHK? Consider attending CUHK Postgraduate Virtual Info Week 2025, October 20-31, details via the link: www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk/admissions/a...
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Join any of the following information sessions, directly communicate with our Professors and current students, and discover how CUHK can elevate your career and open doors to a world of opportunities:
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 23/09/2025
We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025
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Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This paper that the brilliant @mwewerinke.bsky.social and I coauthored for @iclq.bsky.social is probably my most significant piece of work on statehood and sea-level rise. Find it here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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State Continuity, Self-Determination and Sea-Level Rise | International & Comparative Law Quarterly | Cambridge Core
State Continuity, Self-Determination and Sea-Level Rise
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
MS Word, why do you hate ‘particular’? Sometimes it’s necessary, better even, so miss me with the pass-agg underlining already
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Nice to receive my copy of this book! Such an enjoyable project - great contributors and a memorable Oñati workshop. @cmboulanger.bsky.social @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @mpilhlt.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/prof-jen...
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Prof. Jennifer HENDRY has published a collected volume, Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives (Hart Publishing - Bloomsbury, 2025) - The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Jennifer HENDRY has published a new collected volume Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives (Hart Publishing – Bloomsbury, 2025) in Hart’s Oñati International Series in Law & Society. Co-edited with Dr. Christian Boulanger, Max Read more…
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Happy first day of semester to all who celebrate #cuhk #cuhklaw #hongkong
View of CUHK campus from my 6th floor office: visible are the new accommodation block at United College, the UC water tower, the sky bridge, some lush rainforest, and a beautiful blue sky.
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Foot Actu @footactu.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🚨 OFFICIEL ! 𝗣𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘̀𝗥𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗘 𝗦𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗘̀𝗥𝗘, 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗧 𝗠𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (𝟮𝟴 𝗮𝗻𝘀) 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘́ 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝟯𝟬 𝗗𝗨 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗡 𝗗’𝗢𝗥 ! 🌕👏
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The Herald @heraldscotland.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Congratulations to Scott McTominay, who has been nominated for football's most prestigious individual award. The Scotland midfielder is among the Ballon d'Or nominees after a season in which he won the league with Napoli and was named Serie A MVP, while becoming a hero on the streets of Naples
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Radio 3 is playing an orchestral version of Sweet fucking Caroline, having just five minutes ago played Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma. Kill me
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 20/07/2025
The Observatory has raised the T9 storm signal for the first time since 2023, with hurricane-force Wipha closing in on China's southern coast. The weather service urged the public to take precautionary measures, adding that it will consider issuing the T10. In full: buff.ly/cxQbpYd Photos: Kyle Lam.
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University of Leeds - School of Law @lawatleeds.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
🧵The 6-year @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant @ips-leeds.bsky.social is complete, as is their new website! inclusivepublicspace.leeds.ac.uk 1\8
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Inclusive Public Space (IPS) - Inclusive Public Space
The Inclusive Public Space (IPS) project explores how our shared streets can exclude disabled pedestrians, issues often shared by older pedestrians and carers. We test how law and policy respond to th...
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Jeff Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Happy publication day! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe (Oñati International Series in Law & Society, Hart 2025) is now available to purchase: use discount code GLR BD8 at the checkout for 20% off. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega...
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Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe
What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…
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Jonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 30/05/2025
This is totally insane
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Webpage now with updated ToC! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega...
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Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe
What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…
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German Embassy London @uk.diplo.de · 12/05/2025
🇩🇪🤝🇬🇧 The longstanding funding agreement between 🇬🇧 Arts and Humanities Research Council with 🇩🇪 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft has been extended. Focus will be on joint arts & humanities discovery research projects. #ResearchinGermany www.ukri.org/news/ahrc-an...
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AHRC and German Research Foundation renew research partnership
AHRC and DFG have extended their bilateral funding agreement for a further five rounds.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14/05/2025
*crab-walked
A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say
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LEX Network @lexnetwork.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
⏳FINAL CfPs #LEXJointConferenece OPEN CALL🌎 ✅'A feminist politics of radical hope in a time of oppression’. ✅ Keynotes: #ProfMaggieO'Neill & #ProfAishaGill ✅ Liverpool University November 6-7 2025 ✅Registration on LEX website lexnetwork.org under ‘Events' ✅ Deadline May 30 2025 1/3 1/3
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LEX Research Network – Law Gender & Sexuality
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Our OUP book Civil Recovery of Criminal Property is a finalist for Law Book of the Year in the LEAP Irish Law Awards 2025!
LEAP Irish Law Awards 2025

Law Book of the Year, 2025 Finalists

Civil Recovery of Criminal Property by Colin King & Jennifer Hendry

From Hollywood to Hollywood by Paul Tweed

Human Rights and the Care of Older People by Dr Maeve O’Rourke

The Assisted Decision-Making Handbook by Emma Slattery
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Our OUP book Civil Recovery of Criminal Property is a finalist for Law Book of the Year in the LEAP Irish Law Awards 2025!
LEAP Irish Law Awards 2025

Law Book of the Year, 2025 Finalists

Civil Recovery of Criminal Property by Colin King & Jennifer Hendry

From Hollywood to Hollywood by Paul Tweed

Human Rights and the Care of Older People by Dr Maeve O’Rourke

The Assisted Decision-Making Handbook by Emma Slattery
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Irish Legal News @irishlegal.com · 09/05/2025
The full list of finalists for the 2025 LEAP Irish Law Awards has now been published. #sponsored
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Finalists for 2025 LEAP Irish Law Awards announced
The full list of finalists for the 2025 LEAP Irish Law Awards has now been published.
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Durk is still in a lot of trouble to put it mildly but this is good according2hiphop.com/lil-durks-ly...
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Lil Durk's Lyrics Will Not Be Used As Evidence in His Upcoming Federal Trial
Lil Durk's Lyrics Will Not Be Admissible in Upcoming Trial
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Just under a month until Hart publish the latest output from our Socio-Legal Trajectories project @mpilhlt.bsky.social, this Oñati series edited collection: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega... Publishing June 12, ask your libraries to pre-order! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social
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Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe
What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Just under a month until Hart publish the latest output from our Socio-Legal Trajectories project @mpilhlt.bsky.social, this Oñati series edited collection: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega... Publishing June 12, ask your libraries to pre-order! @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social
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Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe
What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…
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Platform for Undocumented Migrants (PICUM) @picumofficial.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
🚨 NEW 🚨 Across the EU, people continue to be criminalised simply for crossing borders or for helping others in need. Our new report is out today. Key findings in thread and full report on picum.org/wp-content/u...
Front cover of PICUM's latest report on the criminalisation of migration and solidarity with migrants in the EU in 2024.
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Dr Smita Kheria @smitakheria.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Delighted to have been elected as the Chair of the @slsauk.bsky.social and many thanks to everyone who attended the AGM at #SLSA2025. It is a real privilege for me to follow Professor John Harrington in this role and I'm very excited to continue working with the board for the socio-legal community.
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Emma Patchett @eepwrites.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Interesting papers on punitive sanctions against homelessness through PSPOs and Area Bans, exploring the ‘aesthetic and affective dimensions of governance’ (Valverde) shaping public space from @jenhendry.bsky.social Amanda Keeling, Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen & Els Schipaanboord #slsa2025
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Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Academics of Bluesky, the hat are your top tips for combatting insomnia? We’re like the start of Fight Club over here…
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