Many congratulations Josh! 🥳

No worries. Are you going to ICON in Dublin? It’s long overdue that we meet.

I missed this at the time, Mathieu - a belated 'merci'

We’re now on Bluesky - please give us a follow! @publiclawgroup-uog.bsky.social

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

Looking forward to this afternoon's @uofglaw.bsky.social Public Law Research Cluster seminar, when Leah Trueblood of the Surrey Centre for Law and Philosophy will present her paper ‘The Salience of Scarcity in Public Law’.

Really looking forward to presenting to wonderful colleagues at Glasgow tomorrow on some recent work about Irish parliamentary culture and practice.

Looking forward to tomorrow afternoon's @uofglaw.bsky.social Public Law Research Cluster seminar, when David Kenny (@dkennytcd.bsky.social) of @tcddublin.bsky.social will present his paper 'Ireland, Westminster, and Political Constitutionalism'.

In my chapter, I explore how legislative drafters should approach choosing which tense and which aspect to use when drafting Bills. Many thanks to the editors - Tímea Drinóczi, Giulia Pennisi, and Helen Xanthaki - for inviting me to contribute, and especially to Tímea for her comments on my chapter.

T. Drinóczi, G. A. Pennisi e H. Xanthaki - Language for Legislation and Legislation through Language YouTube video by Diritti Comparati

For a short video introduction to the book, by Tímea, see here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MEC...

Language for Legislation and Legislation through Language This collection teaches us how language and legislation interact to produce effective laws. It brings linguistics, lawyers, theory, and practices together to show how linguistic tools, concepts, and m...

Great to see that @routledgebooks.bsky.social has published Language for Legislation and Legislation through Language www.routledge.com/Language-for... with a chapter by me: 'Tense Aspects of Legislative Drafting' (earlier version available here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....) @uofglaw.bsky.social

The Oxford comma is badly neglected!

Who is saying this?

Looking forward to this tomorrow!

Hi David, great to meet you too and thanks for your kind words and the excellent question. I'll send you the 'paper'.

📢 Staff at the University of Edinburgh are on strike against £140m cuts.

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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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Goodbye old office

Awesome! Thanks

Why?

The text pictured reads: Parliament is said to be omnipotent, and that it is capable of dealing' with curious matters will be seen from the subjoined specimen of an eighteenth century preamble: "And whereas it has been customary for the Rector of the Parish of Eckington aforesaid for the time being, to keep and maintain a Boar for the Use and Benefit of the said Parish And whereas an Organ hath lately been erected in the Parish Church of Eckington aforesaid, and no Annual Salary being provided for the Organist thereof, and the said Parishioners being desirous to abolish and set aside the aforesaid Custom, and to appropriate an Annual Money Payment to the Organist for the time being in lieu thereof" (35 Geo. 3, c. 100, private). The marginal note is: ''Rector exempted from keeping a Boar, on payment of an Annual Sum to the Organist".

Wondrous ambiguity... @scottwortley.bsky.social

I had a very similar experience to Mark and I am also appalled by this change (as well as by the drastic cuts to PhD funding by universities). I would not be an academic now were it not for the AHRC funding my doctorate. Academia should not return to being the preserve of those with wealth parents.

Congrats Guy 👏🏻

That doesn’t mean that no-one has sought advice about it.

Exactly that.

If it’s legal advice, I’d imagine that it means allowed by the law.

Safe to go in, or not? @scottwortley.bsky.social

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