Benedict Douglas
Law Lecturer. Trying to work out the nature of being human, sometimes by looking vacantly into space. Unique spellings©
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- Reposted by Benedict DouglasI‘m giving a public talk at UCL on Thurs 16 Oct. The title is “Bureaucracy and distrust: the civil service in the constitution” looking at the civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. @sirJJkc.bsky.social will chair! www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...
- Reposted by Benedict DouglasThe news of Conor Gearty's death has just been announced and I'm not coping. He was a mentor and the pole star in my constitutional thinking. He was also a great friend and fantastic fun to be around. I'm heartbroken for Aoife and the children.
- Whoever wrote this headline deserved the rest of the day off
- Academise a book: That's not my Justice or Rationality
- You can replace the word "sovereignty" with "domination" quite easily in this article
- Lovely use of the phrase "constitutional Tetris" in explaining why lack of effective devolved (and local?) democracy in England enables Farage to stir up xenophobia
- NEWYDD - gan @ailsahenderson.bsky.social a minnau. NEW by me and my fellow student of Englishness, Prof. Ailsa Henderson. theconversation.com/nigel-farage...
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- Jeanette Winterson beautifully foreseeing the problem with AI art and in student essays in 1995
- The Assisted Dying Act will only create a general increase in self-determination and liberty if the wider inequalities of our society are addressed
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- Our duty dominated society is not ready for the legalisation of assisted suicide.
- Reskeeting for my UG Intro to Law class who had to do a problem question on whether Tintin could claim as a secondary victim if he suffered psychiatric injury if he saw Snowy injured in an accident.
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- It’s good to see the Committee explicitly recognise the existence or level of a Minimum Income Requirement is an ethical decision, as well as a political one. Preventing people from living with their family based on how much they earn is unethical, this should guide the political debate & decision
- The Migration Advisory Committee has reviewed the financial requirements for Brits & settled migrants to bring partners & children to the UK. They see the final decision as a political one govt must make, so didn't recommend any single threshold. Here's a short summary 🧵 www.gov.uk/government/p...
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- Looking forward to reading this and applying it to animal rights! @drjoshdoeslaw.bsky.social GEWIRTH REASERCH CLAXON 🚨🐑🚨
- I'm giving a magic little paper tomorrow at 3pm: "NO JUSTICE, JUST US: Death & Love in Terry Pratchett's Discworld" Drop me a message me if you'd like a link
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- Rereading one of my favourite articles, in which Sir John Laws explains parliamentary sovereignty is like a cat.
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- The OJLS is red typos are few law reform needed open access for you
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- Wonderful to see the amazing Dr Kara Woodbury-Smith on bsky @kwhyphens.bsky.social
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- The Gavle Goat is on bsky, it’s an advent calendar with the mild peril of sudden spontaneous combustion
- The UK’s culture means some people are likely to choose assisted dying because they feel they have a "duty to die". The safeguards in the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill do not address this. In this post I suggest constitutional change is a way to reduce the danger
- Very true, which is why Durham staff and students created a guide to the UK Constitution with pictures! @ukconstitutionzine.bsky.social www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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- Every time someone uses the word "business" to describe what a university does an idea dies.
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