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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm pleased to announce the Legal Philosophy Trident's line-up and schedule for 2026-27, We've recently moved our mailing list to google groups. If you'd like to receive our updates, join the list via the following link: groups.google.com/g/legal-phil... Hope to see you at the LPT seminars!

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"The illegal sharing of academic research constitutes a form of permissible unilateral remedial action" that is "necessary and proportionate" Preach! An important paper by @miottoluc.bsky.social and Himani Bhakuni. Download it while it’s hot.

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Rob Mullins @robertmullins.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Some good news to share for once. Leah Trueblood has apparently won the Wedderburn Prize for her article 'Public Functions of Political Parties in the United Kingdom' (2025) 88(4) MLR 660. Read it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Public Functions of Political Parties in the United Kingdom

Political parties are both private and public bodies. Some actions of political parties must be categorised as private to protect freedom of speech and association. This article argues, however, that...

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Richly deserved. Leah is a star, and also one of the kindest, most beautiful souls out there. It is truly a mystery how Oxford let her go

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Is it morally permissible to break the law to share academic research? In our new paper @freeandequal.bsky.social, Himani Bhakuni and I explore this question and frame illegal sharing of academic research as a form of unilateral remedial action. Link below: freeandequaljournal.org/article/id/2...

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In the Shadows: Academic Knowledge and Remedial Action

Open access activists and shadow libraries violate laws that restrict access to academic research. Is such lawbreaking morally permissible? This paper defends an affirmative answer. We argue that the ...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

On Monday, March 16th the Legal Philosophy Trident will host Irit Samet (KCL), who will present a draft chapter titled:"From Paternalism to Saving the World: How to Benefit the Beneficiary". Register on the link below to join us: forms.gle/fRVgymigt9Bm...

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LPT Seminar w/ Irit Samet - Registration Form

LPT Seminar w/ Irit Samet (KCL) Title: From Paternalism to Saving the World: How to Benefit the Beneficiary Time: Monday 16th March 2026 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to re...

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Domingos Faria @dfaria.eu · 16/12/2025

Funded postdoctoral positions (FCT) at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Porto – Call for expressions of interest: ifilosofia.up.pt/news/funded-...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

On Monday, December 8th, Daniel Viehoff will present his paper 'Authority and Control' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be an exciting discussion! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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LPT Seminar w/ Daniel Viehoff - Registration Form

LPT Seminar w/ Daniel Viehoff (Berkeley) Title: Authority and Control Time: Monday 8th December 2025 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registered participants by e-mail 2 ho...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Such a nice surprise to see this engagement with our work on Transitional Health Justice. Thank you, Christina Ho, and thanks to @jotwell.bsky.social for publishing it! The links to the papers Christina engages with are below: www.hhrjournal.org/2023/12/06/j... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Justice in Transitioning Health Systems – HHR Journal

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

This Friday, Nov 7th (5pm UK), Ariel Zylberman (SUNY) will be at the Legal Philosophy Trident presenting his paper on normative powers titled "Powerful Animals". This promises to be excellent. You can register here: forms.gle/zYjGsZno2W1z...

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LPT Seminar w/ Ariel Zylberman - Registration Form

LPT Seminar w/ Ariel Zylberman (SUNY) Title: Powerful Animals Time: Friday 7th November 2025 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registered participants by e-mail 2 hours befo...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Today, @ezemonti.bsky.social and I will host Alex Guerrero (Rutgers) at the Legal Philosoph Trident Seminar Series. There's still time to register. Don't miss what promises to be an excellent seminar!

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

On Friday (October 3rd), we are kicking off the LPT Seminar Series with Alex Guerrero (Rutgers), who will discuss a dilemma voters face between voting instrumentally or as true believers. The seminar is online and open all. You can register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

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2025-26 Seminar Series

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Mathieu Carpentier @mathieucarpentier.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

🚨 Just out in Jurisprudence: a special issue, edited by D. Dyzenhaus and G.B. Ratti, devoted to the close relationship between HLA Hart and Norberto Bobbio. It comprises a.o. the translations into English of five essays by Bobbio, substantial excerpts from the Hart-Bobbio correspondence... 1/2

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Alex Wiegmann @alexwiegmann.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky. @xphijournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/xphi... Please share!

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Alma Diamond @almadiamond.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Thank you @miottoluc.bsky.social and @philosophy-law.bsky.social for this conversation! I loved talking to Legal Phi about my work.

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

A new Legal-Phi interview is out! We spoke with Alma Diamond about how practices shape obligations, constitutional meaning, and much more. Check it out 👇https://legalphi.wordpress.com/2025/09/02/alma-diamond-practices-obligations-and-constitutions/

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Alma Diamond: Practices, Obligations, and Constitutions

It is a pleasure to have Alma Diamond as our next interviewee. Alma obtained her LLM and JSD from NYU School of Law, where her dissertation was supervised by Jeremy Waldron. She has taught at the U…

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Stoo Goff @stoogoff.com · 14/08/2025

This site has been a joy this week: wiby.me. It's a search engine which skips the corporate web and just looks for the amateur / hobbyist web that's still out there but doesn't appear in popular search engine results. I've used the Surprise Me function to read about a random thing everyday

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Wiby - Search Engine for the Classic Web

Wiby is a search engine for older style pages, lightweight and based on a subject of interest. Building a web more reminiscent of the early internet.

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

@ezemonti.bsky.social and I are delighted to announce the 2025-26 Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar Series Line-up & Schedule. Details below:

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Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The workshop on Jurisprudence by Experiment is on Monday 2nd June @ 2-5.15pm and is organised by Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social (Surrey) and our own Tsampika Taralli. Speakers include Eleonore Neufeld (UMass), Jonathan Ichikawa (UBC), Guilherme Almeida (Insper), and Karolina Prochownik (Ruhr).

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Simon Palmer (Surrey) is presenting his "Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority?" this Friday (09/05) at the Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar Series. This promises to be excellent. Registration and more info here: forms.gle/5GmRvPW7aepj... w/ @ezemonti.bsky.social

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LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Simon Palmer)

LPT Seminar w/ Simon Palmer (Surrey) Title: Do Triggerable Reasons Explain Legal Authority? Time: Friday, 09 May 2025 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registered participa...

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Ezequiel Monti @ezemonti.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

On 28 March, Daniel Wodak will be presenting his paper 'Malapportionment: A Murder Mystery' as part of the LPT Seminar Series. Join us for what promises to be a very interesting discussion! Register here: bit.ly/3YXPH4w

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Next Friday (21/02/25 - 17:00 UK), the Legal Philosophy Trident will host Nina Varsava (Wisconsin), who will present her "Stare Decisis and Egregiously Errouneous Precedents". All are welcome to join. Register via the form below: forms.gle/tFjk9L9PaXb4...

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LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Nina Varsava)

LPT Seminar w/ Nina Varsava (Wisconsin) Title: Stare Decisis and Egregiously Erroneous Precedents Time: Friday, 21 February 2025 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registere...

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Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

In the fifth post of the series, Himani Bhakuni (York) reflects on the case of unhealthy diets and asks: why shouldn't the government use legislation (rather than just advice) to prevent significant individual and social harm from the consumption of ultra-processed foods? bsky.app/profile/ukcl...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Dear academics We could dramatically reduce our administrative workload if we all just agreed not to ask for reference letters until we made our list of finalists. This is massive collective action problem has already been solved by… *checks notes* …every other industry on earth.

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Antonia Waltermann 🟥 @amwaltermann.com · 29/11/2024

The right-wing Dutch gov is planning huge budget cuts to (higher) education. I'm posting a picture every (other) day from protests against these cuts until a. the cuts are off the table, b. the gov falls or c. I run out of pictures. #WOinActie 🟥

While marching towards the ministry of education as part of the big protest against the budget cuts to higher education by the Dutch government, a protester holds up a sign saying "democracy needs unruly thought"

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Hi Bluesky folks, Tomorrow (Nov 22nd 5PM UK time) the Legal Philosophy Trident will host Filippa Ronquist (UCL) as part of our seminar series. She will present her draft titled "Authority and Categorical Reasons". You can register here: forms.gle/coUxKPtxKLJs...

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LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Filippa Ronquist)

LPT Seminar w/ Filippa Ronquist (UCL) Title: Authority and Categorical Reasons Time: Friday, 22 November 2024 - 5pm UK Time. Location: Online (Zoom link will be sent to registered participants by e...

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Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here’s some pictures from our annual Disputationes! It was great to learn more about our PhD candidates’ research and to engage in thought-provoking discussions with our colleagues from Glasgow and Surrey. Looking forward to next year!

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

Join us on Nov 22nd (5pm UK) for another Legal Philosophy Trident seminar. Our guest will be Filippa Ronquist (UCL), who will present her draft paper titled "Authority and Categorical Reasons". Register here: forms.gle/coUxKPtxKLJs... More info: sites.google.com/view/lptride...

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LPT Seminar - Registration Form (Filippa Ronquist)

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Ingrid Robeyns @ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Staff from Utrecht University: there will be a national demonstration against higher eduction budget cuts on 14 November (more details to follow). We need a massive turnout there, which requires strong mobilization of colleagues and students. >

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Milena Tripkovic @tripkovicmilena.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

See below a call for applications to do a PhD with me at Edinburgh Law School 😊

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Martin David Kelly @martindavidkelly.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

Legal-Phi has just published a new interview! Their conversation with is Steve Coyne about his work on authority, disobedience, and much more. Please share! legalphi.wordpress.com/2024/09/23/s...

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Steve Coyne: Authority and its Reasons

It is a great pleasure to have Steve Coyne with us at Legal-Phi. Steve is currently an Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of Toronto and is the main ethicist for ...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 16/01/2024

The first Legal Philosophy Trident seminar of 2024 is on February 2 at 17:00 (UK). We're hosting Adam Perry (Oxford) who is going to present his paper titled "Legal Fictionalism". More info and registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/adam-perry... Alternative registration: forms.gle/ZMeRfUyNiVhB...

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Adam Perry (Oxford) - "Legal Fictionalism"

Trident Seminar with Adam Perry (Oxford)

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Edinburgh Legal Theory @legaltheoryed.bsky.social · 10/01/2024

Happy New Year to all our followers! We're delighted to share with you our programme of events for the rest of the academic year. For further details as they emerge, see here: www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

The next Legal Philosophy Trident Seminar is taking place on December 11th at 17:00 (London). Our guest is Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld), who will present his "What We May Expect of Each Other". More info and registration here: tinyurl.com/2f3ftmpa Alternative link: forms.gle/HC8HyYgQrePG...

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Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld) - "What We May Expect of Each Other"

Trident Seminar with Benjamin Kiesewetter (Bielefeld)

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Tomorrow, Fabienne Peter (Warwick) will be at the LP Trident seminar series presenting her paper titled ''Runaway Reasons". Join us via Zoom! More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/legal-phi... Registration here: forms.gle/KCuAq3stZjW8...

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Teresa Marques @teresafm.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

Lots of things happening these days. Soon in Valencia, workshop on Lying and Truthfulness:

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Lucas Miotto @miottoluc.bsky.social · 14/10/2023

Hello, bluesky folks. Here is some shameless self-promotion as my first post. Below "Justice in Global Health" - fresh out of press.

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