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Jinal Dadiya

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“If they attack and pressure those who feel little to no sexual attraction or interest in sex, that is a gateway to attacking anyone who does have sex in any way that’s not ‘approved’ or ‘acceptable.’” Niger’s criminalising of asexuality is about enforcing patriarchal ideas of gender and sexuality.
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Why Niger explicitly criminalising asexuality is significant to everyone, regardless of identity
To understand Nigers asexuality criminalisation, we should see this law as part of a bigger – and growing – global trend among conservatives about 'traditional families'
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Jinal Dadiya @jinaldadiya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'll be talking to Paul Mitchell about his insightful new book on Gaskell and the Law on October 27th. Sign up link at the post below
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NEW: This must one of the most violent natural disasters ever recorded. This is the immigration centre on Nepal’s border at 11am, this morning (Aug 26). That is a seven-storey building about to be obliterated in seconds. (🎥 NDTV)
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Sara M. Butler 🇨🇦 @sarabutler.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
My new post is up! When Marriage goes Wrong: Breach of Promise in Fifteenth-Century England legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/08/06/w...
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When Marriage goes Wrong: Breach of Promise in Fifteenth-Century England
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 6 August 2026. Cundradus Schlapperitzi, miniature showing marriage (1445).  New York Public Library. Courtesy of Picryl. Public Domain.   Historians of marriage …
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Elsa Devienne @elsadevienne.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?
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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Please read this piece by our member Feyzi Ismail in @ajenglish.bsky.social on the years-long crisis at Goldsmiths and what it tells us about the state of higher education in this country. #NoRedundanciesEverAgain www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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The slow death of Goldsmiths is a warning to British universities
The crisis at the London university shows how marketisation has pushed UK higher education to the brink.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.' Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3
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Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only
Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme
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Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Dr Jinal Dadiya (QMUL) gave a fascinating talk today at Manchester Law School on ‘The Curious Case of the Reprobate Fiance’.
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Edinburgh Centre for Private Law @ecprivatelaw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
New blog entry by Dr Jinal Dadiya, Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths, University of London on 'Romantic Partner Torts: Contemporary Problems and the Legal History of Taking Heartbreak Seriously'. blogs.ed.ac.uk/private-law/...
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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
“You cannot build ethical AI on the foundation of exploited, traumatized human labor. If the training data comes from people who were psychologically destroyed in the process of creating it, then the technology itself is tainted from the start.” Powerful report on the emotional labour building AI.
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The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
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Raffael Fasel @raffaelfasel.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Delighted to see that @lsolum.bsky.social has recommended my latest paper on limited constituent power in his Legal Theory Blog. May the peer reviewers enjoy it just as much!
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I wrote something on my time on returning to Goldsmiths as an associate lecturer, 17 years after graduating with my first degree. It’s a plea to Frances Corner’s successor to learn from mistakes made over the last 6 years and change course. #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/2025/10/06/c...
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Cutting Corners: a message to the next Vice Chancellor at Goldsmiths
On 1 October 2025, a short announcement was put on Goldsmiths’ website to say that Vice Chancellor Frances Corner was stepping down with immediate effect. This came off the back of an announcement …
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Jinal Dadiya @jinaldadiya.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
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Study by Welsh university examines how joy is found in academia
A new study by researchers and students at Welsh and Swedish universities explores how joy is found in academic life against the backdrop of challenges in the higher education sector. Conducted by Ban...
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Raffael Fasel @raffaelfasel.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
I am delighted that my book 'More Equal Than Others: Humans and the Rights of Other Animals' is featured in Psychology Today @psychologytoday.com and has been made an essential read in their Philosophy section. Many thanks to Marc Bekoff for interviewing me! www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...
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Granting Rights to Animals Doesn't Undermine Human Rights
In proposing the Species Membership Approach, Raffael Fasel argues against the misplaced fears that granting legal rights and personhood to nonhumans would weaken human rights.
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Thinking of everyone on the clearing hotlines today! May your headset be comfortable, your snacks plentiful, your coffee iced and your spreadsheets intelligible
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22/07/2025
An ex-worker at Karnataka’s Dharmasthala temple says he was forced to bury hundreds of bodies, including children.
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Why is India investigating alleged mass killings of sexual assault victims?
An ex-worker at Karnataka’s Dharmasthala temple says he was forced to bury hundreds of bodies, including children.
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Gaurav Mittal @gauravmittal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
🚨 We’re hiring for the Just Transitions on Indian Streets project! 🔹 2 Postdoc positions (Deadline: 11 Aug) 🔹 2 Research Associate positions (Deadline: 4 Aug) 📍 Hosted at NLSIU, Bengaluru with Dr Anwesha Ghosh. Apply & share! www.nls.ac.in/news-and-eve...
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Work With Us - National Law School of India University
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
'The number of student-initiated PhD scholarships funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) is set to fall by 60 per cent when new doctoral training arrangements come into effect next year, new figures show.' 1/3
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‘Student-led’ AHRC PhD places ‘to fall by at least 60 per cent’
Internal modelling released under Freedom of Information enquiry reveals extent of PhD scholarship cuts, with academics fearing impact could be greater still
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Raffael Fasel @raffaelfasel.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Really looking forward to launching John Adenitire's and my new book 'Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-based Constitutionalism' (OUP 2025) in @animalrightslaw.bsky.social's Talking Animals, Law & Philosophy series on 30th June from 3-4.30pm: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/john-adeni...
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Jinal Dadiya @jinaldadiya.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Delighted to share my recent piece on affordable access to procreative assistance in the Human Rights Law Review. Its open access, so if you have the time to read it, I'd love to know what you think academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...
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A right to health case for access to affordable procreative assistance
Abstract. This article contends that States have procedural and aspirational obligations towards the provision of affordable procreative assistance. I loca
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Jinal Dadiya @jinaldadiya.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A short glimpse of what I learnt on my American archival trip this summer :) psyche.co/ideas/how-th...
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How the law soothed broken hearts in 19th-century America | Psyche Ideas
What does a deep dive into the transcripts of historical seduction trials reveal about how we account for hurt feelings?
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