🚨🚨Welcome and very significant news on #EU-UK relationship and #brexit reversal: yesterday, the European Union and the United Kingdom have enabled the UK's association to #Erasmus+ in 2027. 🧵
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Only delighted to return from mat leave to find a very deja-vu inducing state of affairs with the ECHR/ECtHR. Finally my PhD on 'crisis law' is relevant again and so am experiencing lots of excited neurons firing off reading coverage/an existential sense of dread.
The ECHR doesn't oblige the UK to have a ramshackle & underfunded asylum system that is possible to exploit, the UK does that all by itself. It does oblige its states to provide protection to LGBT people facing very real threats of persecution, which gets missed here:
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A mother who did not pay her TV Licence as she was grieving over the death of her baby son has received a criminal conviction in the UK’s controversial fast-track courts.
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p*tEr c*sEy rUnNiNg fOR áRas AgAiN
today international law and freedom of research took another hit when @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social due to political pressure uninvited @franceskalbs.bsky.social & E. Weizman. same uni where @esil-sedi.bsky.social in September will debate the reconstruction of international law www.esil2025.de
FFFG: "We are proud to be the parties that solved the garden shed crisis"
Genius addition to my list:
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Government continuing its streak of trying everything to fix the housing crisis except for doing anything that will actually fix the housing crisis
"Priced out of the housing market? Try living in a hut in your parents backyard" is now the official government stance
We are so fucking cooked man
Move to ease rules on the living sleeping in coffins in overground tombs being examined by the government in a bid to tackle Ireland's housing crisis
Here's the executive order just signed by Trump.
One of the defining features of fascism is that the discretionary power of the leader always prevails over the rule of law.
They will do absolutely anything other than build social housing.
“Airing Cupboards redesigned as Housing for statistical purposes.
Also, Govt welcomes record new housing completions.”
We don't or the seismic mental shift that occurs post-viva. Here if you ever need a chat!
Rmembered my Bluesky login to announce that this Weds, Sinéad Lucey of FLAC will round off our three part 'RightsAware' series with 'Impact of the ECHR for Traveller Rights across Europe.' Only a few tickets left - Link to reg here: www.eventbrite.com/e/impact-of-...
Leaving aside the FG gravity well, what’s striking here is that the Social Democrats are starting to become the default choice out of the parties if you don’t want to go with the top three.
I don’t even know where to begin with this.
A sneak peek into the future of legal research.
(And yes, of course some hipsters have been on top of this topic since the first demo.)
Here it is: my 2024 manifesto to be Mayor of London. Can any other candidate beat this? Not a chance! #VoteBinface #MakeYourVoteCount #IchBinEinLondoner
The European Prison Litigation Network is here! 👋
This article is so good
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Lisa Flower and I got a 20% discount code for everyone interested in buying our #CourtroomEthnography anthology, published with @Palgrave - valid until Mar 13, 2024 ⤵️
#geosky geolegal
If anyone around Limerick is confused or unsure of what the issues are in the upcoming referendums, come along to UL next Wed evening and we will be happy to answer any questions. (Also free pizza!)
Same MP who has the anti-Traveller rhetoric if I'm not mistaken?
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Heads up UK citizens overseas! The disgraceful ‘15 year rule’ which disenfranchised you is being binned TODAY! From 16 January you can now at long last register to vote, which you should do ASAP in view of in the upcoming general election, because *gestures at everything* mailchi.mp/a6cd97a73d7e...
