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Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?

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A PENGUIN SINCE 1979

Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

the child, or the hospital staff caring for it? How might this be justified? Does the court have jurisdiction to order an injunction imposing duties on the world at large? Who has standing to seek it? The Supreme Court answered these and other questions in Abbasi v Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Trust...

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

A gravely ill child is in hospital. A medical view might be taken that, though tragic, it may be in the child’s best interests to die with dignity. The courts are asked to declare authoritatively the permissibility of withdrawing life-support. Should the courts also grant an injunction anonymising/1

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I have posted on SSRN a note forthcoming in the LQR, entitled 'Injunctions Contra Mundum, Jurisdiction, and Standing'. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Abstract and link to judgment below.

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Well…. reimbursing expenses to get there (train fare) a quite different thing to payment for services ….. should at least have gotten the former I would think

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Lol. Was in shirt and shorts and barely survived.

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The issue at stake in 1686 was whether the king was bound by the law. How are we back here again?

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

US law academics tend to view judges differently. Especially at top law schools. They generally don’t think judges worth engaging. That is their starting premise and it is how their students are taught. They also think differently about the role of judges. It’s quite a different system and context.

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Reed is brilliant at this role. What was needed after the froth of the Brexit litigation was a grey man, of impeccable judgement. (He is much less grey than the impression he creates). He is also, imo, the best judge on the court, and has been from the day of his appointment. /1

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Two years after the publication of Standing in Private Law, OUP has kindly made available for download chapter 1, free of charge. academic.oup.com/book/46686/c...

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John Stuart Thrill @jsthrill.modphi.com · 22/04/2025

I am a consequentialist by which I mean that a lot of people should have to face consequences for the shit they have gotten up to

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Harvey Lederman @harveylederman.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Publish or perish: the untold story of Socrates

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

"To support researchers, we are offering a 20% concession on the processing fee of 198 USD for manuscripts submitted by March 31, 2025. Submissions can be made via our online portal or by replying to this email." F*&k off.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Found this old York sign again which apparently bans cycling while allowing you to injure young and old alike by way of recompense. The good management of municipal facilities is all about give and take.

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Alexander Georgiou and I have co-authored a paper-- 'Are Equitable Remedies Discretionary?'-- published in the latest issue of the Journal of Equity. The issue includes a lecture by Justice Leeming, Supreme Court of NSW. Pre-prints: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... cite as (2025) 18 J Eq 246.

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Strange. Thanks for letting me know. Works for me though. I’ll fiddle

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

This is the third year we will be running first blind peer review, with a subsequent non-blind review once initial decisions have been made to consider profile diversity before final decisions are made and communicated. Decisions will be communicated by Friday 2 May 2025. /end

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

If you are interested in delivering a paper or organising a panel, please submit your paper abstract or panel details by 11:59pm UK time on Friday 4 April 2025. All abstracts and panel details must be submitted through the Oxford Abstracts conference system: Link: lnkd.in/dVaEHzFA 3/n

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

The Remedies and Restitution section will meet in the second half of the conference on 3 September and will have 2 sessions, each lasting 90 minutes. Doctoral students are very welcome and are encouraged to submit papers for consideration in the Subject Sections Programme. 2/n

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

<CfP for SLS 'Remedies and Restitution'>: A gentle reminder of the call for papers and panels for the "Remedies and Restitution" section of the 2025 Society of Legal Scholars’ Annual Conference to be held at Leeds University, from 2nd-4th September. Link: lnkd.in/dRJh7rHS 1/n

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

“Life would be so infinitely trivial if I thought I could understand it.” Niels Bohr.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Write every day for 1 hour. If you miss a writing day add 1 hour to the next. It’s incredible! Tomorrow I’m writing for 7 years.

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

We enjoyed anatomy of a fall

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We invite applicants from all socioeconomic backgrounds for this unpaid internship in the most expensive city in the world

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Ah damn. That’s annoying. Feel better soon.

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Thrilled to announce I wrote a paragraph, deleted half of it, re-wrote the paragraph, then deleted all of it.

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Why unlikely? You must have a thousand unpublications at least. And also thousands of stalkers, I’m sure.

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Adam Tucker @adam.publiclaw.space · 28/11/2024

This one qualifies in all three ways for me. Enjoy it for yourself at (1993) 13 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 18. (Unless like me you are an advocate of - even modest - limits on legislative power, in which case it will haunt you. Forever.)

An image of the first page of Waldron's article A Right-Based Critique of Constitutional Rights

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Paul Quelle-horreur 👻🎃👻🎃 @paulkelleher.net · 25/11/2024

November 12, 1973 --- The day Philosophy & Public Affairs started treating Rawls like Jesus.

A letter on Philosophy & Public Affairs letterhead that reads:

November 12, 1973

Professor Robert Nozick
Department of Philosophy
Emerson Hall
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Dear Professor Nozick,

I have been meaning to send you a note ever since you did not telephone the second time last week just to say that I decided after all to drop the offending post-apostrophes from the possessive of Rawls. This is, as I told you, according to the Chicago Manual of Style an honor due only to Moses and Jesus, but with us aesthetic considerations won out. The decision puts us somewhat in a class by ourselves -- I note that in Brian Barry's new book he and Oxford Press write Rawls's -- but I don't mind being different. I trust that you will not.

sincerely，
Margot Cutter

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I can assure you that this is the genuine SpinningHugo account. Would a bot express such deep hatred for the UKSC's carpeting and decor?

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

It can be taken down only after the cladding’s fixed, sadly

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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

I wonder how the academic labour market has adapted to the collapse of the railway system. When I was doing it full time a lot of people were commuting long distances, maybe staying overnight, and then back. How is that possible now when you have to turn up for 300 students at 11am no messing?

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/08/2024

To help you get on your horse. Apparently.

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 17/06/2024

And work is neither boring, nor predictable. What fun!

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Timothy Liau @timliau.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

I did it…. Definitely not the way to try and win votes!

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