Jackson Allen
@jallen7.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at University of Sheffield | criminal law, evidence, and legal philosophy | 🇺🇸/🇬🇧
Call for Abstracts – Virtual Criminal Law Group Spring Series 2027 📣 In case you missed it: our call for abstracts for the VCLG Spring series is open! We welcome submissions on criminal law theory and practice, criminal procedure, and criminal justice, broadly construed. ECRs and PGRs welcome!
In our next post, Jackson Allen @jallen7.bsky.social argues that since private prosecutions illegitimately privatise a key public function and create accountability deficits, they should be abolished or permitted only very exceptionally. Coming on Monday! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
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Here's a provocative suggestion by @jallen7.bsky.social, coming to the Criminal Justice Theory Blog on Monday... Have a look and see what you think...
Criminal Justice Theory Blog@theoryjustice.bsky.social · last wk.In our next post, Jackson Allen @jallen7.bsky.social argues that since private prosecutions illegitimately privatise a key public function and create accountability deficits, they should be abolished or permitted only very exceptionally. Coming on Monday! criminaljusticetheoryblog.wordpress.com
UK: Prince Andrew arrested. South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life. Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence. USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
If you are interested in criminal justice, children's rights, and/or feminist abolitionism, you cannot miss this presentation on 18th Feb at @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social and online! More info 👇
Yorkshire Criminal Law Forum@yclf.bsky.social · 9mo agoOur next YCLF seminar is coming 🔜! 🗣️ Marina Sáenz (EUI): ‘Juvenile Sexual Violence Against Women and the Conceptual Limits of Criminal Liability’. 🗓️ Wed 18 Feb, 15:00-16:30 📍Hybrid: @uoy-yorklawschool.bsky.social & Zoom ®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/
Our 5th seminar is coming 🔜 🗣️ Federico La Vattiata: ‘Comparative Approaches to Normative Causation and the Limits of the But-For Test: Between Objective Attribution and Proximate Causation’. 🗓️ Wed 25 Feb, 15-16:30 📍Online & @universityofleeds.bsky.social ®️To join us: sites.google.com/view/yclf/
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The move comes after a federal judge wrote in court document that the "charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney … must come to an end." n.pr/3LqRtqP
Lindsey Halligan, Trump's former personal attorney, exits Virginia prosecutor's office
The move comes after a federal judge wrote in court document that the "charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney … must come to an end."
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Hard to believe the man who floated injecting bleach as a COVID cure would go to war with Greenland because he didn’t get a Nobel Peace Prize.
Hard to imagine a clearer case of abuse of process than launching a military operation to kidnap the leader of another country (killing dozens of civilians along the way), only to bring them before US courts on criminal charges.
Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached
Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus: @sheffielducu.bsky.social
For the first YCLF 2025-26 Seminar, we'll discuss @drfassnidge.bsky.social chapter: The Deliberative Stage of Criminalisation and "Political Turn" Theories of Criminalisation 📅 30 Oct, 3-4:30 pm online & @sheffielduni.bsky.social To attend join our mailing list. Info on sites.google.com/view/yclf/
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*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*. If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.
LopaLeach@lopa.bsky.social · last yr.Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...
🚨BOOK LAUNCH🚨 at the Criminal Justice Centre QM @qmul.bsky.social @crimjusticecentre.bsky.social Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice: Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology 📅 Wednesday 19th November 6pm - 7.30 📍QMUL Mile End, Room 313 Tix: FREE at tinyurl.com/2s4bf3py Please share!
Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment...
Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology
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"The Presidency of the Assembly notes that Mr. Putin is subject to a warrant of arrest by the International Criminal Court issued on 17 March 2023, for war crimes committed against children in Ukrainian occupied territory from at least 24 February 2022."
Former FBI Director James Comey to be indicted in Virginia federal court for taking Tylenol.
This is moving in exactly the wrong direction! Education & meaningful activity in prison is crucial to reducing violence and improving outcomes
Prisons in England and Wales to cut spending on education courses by up to 50%
Move comes despite election manifesto promises from Keir Starmer to improve ‘access to learning’
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Cassia Rowland@cassiarowland.bsky.social · 2y agoIn our latest report, we showed lack of training & employment in prison is linked to higher violence & protest. A prison with 80% of prisons in purposeful activity has an estimated 40% fewer assaults than one with only 60% in purposeful activity. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
Calling all barristers and solicitor-advocates. If you are able to help with my PhD research on the jury, please do get in contact with me. Thank you in advance!
They absolutely do pay attention to shit like this, so if this is you too, please let them know
Joshua Bloch@joshbloch.bsky.social · last yr.I just sent this letter to the alumni office at Columbia University. I hope they receive many letters like this over the coming days.
“We should think very carefully before removing the right to trial by jury. Once it is removed, it will not return. Pragmatism is essential, but fundamental principles must not yield to expediency. We must eliminate the delay but not at the expensive of fairness” CBA treasurer James Gray
When Universities are mismanaged or run into financial issues, it's always the staff and NEVER the management who lose their jobs. On the contrary, they get above-inflation pay rises that are the equivalent to one or two of the full time jobs they cut. How and why do we let this happen?
Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last yr.'The university has informed staff of plans to cut 400 full-time equivalent (FTE) positions by July 2026, with academics the first to go.' Professor Andy Schofield, VC at Lancaster University since 2020, will take up position of Principal & VC at Glasgow University on 1 October 2025.
Washington Post is now engaging in discrediting its own sources to protect it’s owners economic interests. WaPo is not just a biased publication, it is a bad faith actor!
Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.The flood of encomiums and morality tales about Elon's turn in Washington cldn't be more predictable, vapid & sickening. If you want a story, get me the story about the crisis comms team directing this. He ran anti-constitutional blitzkrieg thru the federal government, did massive harm, violated ...
Coming up next week, Wed, June 4, at 11:30am (NYC time): a Mod Crim L Rev Special Issue Symposium on Chloë Kennedy's Inducing Intimacy: Deception, Consent and the Law (Cambridge UP 2024) Join us for this free live event, no registration required! crimlrev.net/event/induci...
Modern Criminal Law Review@modcrimlrev.bsky.social · 2y agoYes, grab the book in any format (or formats!) you can, then join us live on YouTube for the international symposium on it, followed by a Mod Crim L Rev Special Issue soon after! crimlrev.net/2024/11/04/i...
🚨 A reminder that Understanding Miscarriages of Justice is *next Wednesday* @qmul.ac.uk with speakers from Appeal, @we-are-appeal.bsky.social, the Post Office scandal ( @rebeccakhelm.bsky.social @richardmoorhead.bsky.social), the Law Commission, and many others 🚨 ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25 28 May 2025 at Queen Mary, Lincoln’s Inn’s Fields, Room 3.1 Registration link: https://forms.gle/RaA9iSSFc1mmqazU9 9am Coffee/registration 9.25 am Welco...
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Protest happening NOW: Location: 517 E. Wisconsin Ave, Milwaukee Next action: Tomorrow at 3 PM Location: 3600 S. Lake Dr, St. Francis, WI 53235 Stand up. Show up.
"Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem" Georgetown Law students made a spreadsheet. National coverage followed. Now, the world's richest firms face PR & recruitment headaches. An organizer on how it unfolded @www.AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...
