This award is an unexpected honour - one for which I am joining pretty exalted company in terms of previous winners. Buy the book here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Statehood as Political Community

Cambridge Core - Public International Law - Statehood as Political Community

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American Society of International Law@asilorg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Congrats to Alex Green's "Statehood as Political Community", which has been awarded the 2026 International Association for the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR Prize) for the Best Book on Legal or Social Philosophy. Published in the ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory series.

This is wonderful but actually fuck Reform for pulling this outdated discriminatory shit in the first place www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

‘Bigger and better than ever’: how Durham Pride beat Reform’s funding axe with help from the miners

Solidarity between LGBTQ+ people and unions has saved an event denied ‘a single penny’ of council money

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Our book, Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law has just come out in paperback and is staggeringly cheap! Buy it now and help fund my future retirement.

Jen Hendry (文林言)@jenhendry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New on the JLS blog: our Meet the Book Authors post celebrating the paperback release (May 22, 2026) of our 2024 hardback Routledge publication Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/legal-p... @glexareen.bsky.social

New on the JLS blog: our Meet the Book Authors post celebrating the paperback release (May 22, 2026) of our 2024 hardback Routledge publication Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/legal-p... @glexareen.bsky.social

Legal Pluralism: New Trajectories in Law | Journal of Law and Society

Alex Green (文浩航)* and Jennifer Hendry (文林言)** * Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Academic Associat ...

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"Benches are where optimistic visions of civic life meet reality. To remove them, or to curate who gets to sit, is to abandon the work of defining a civic ideal and determining, together, how to live up to it." NEW: Why benches are slowly disappearing from public spaces — and why we need them back:

The Disappearance of the Public Bench

Benches are microcosms of an expansive debate about who belongs in urban public spaces. When they are removed or made uninviting, we lose more than just a place to rest.

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Opened my old institutional email account for the first time in a while and I have a load of increasingly frantic review requests from different journals. Journal review platforms need to have a better system for accommodating/noting out-of-office replies / changes of contact info.

Thoughtful review of "Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives", Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jennifer Hendry (Eds.) (by Stewart Field, Cardiff) ds.hypotheses.org/18436

Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives | Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jennifer Hendry (Eds.)

Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jennifer Hendry (Eds.), Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives, Oxford: Hart Publishing; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025, coll. “Oñati ...

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Privileged to attend the official launch of the Asian Legal History Association at CUHK Faculty of Law this morning, and to hear Prof Renisa Mawani deliver the inaugural conference’s keynote lecture this afternoon. Congratulations to all involved in such a successful event.

Such a pleasure for @glexareen.bsky.social & me to participate in the USQ-hosted workshop ‘Deliberation & Contestation in Multinational Democracies’ and present (the latest instalment of) our work on the limits of legal pluralism. Many thanks to the participants for the engagement & feedback.

Many thanks to everyone who submitted abstracts to @jenhendry.bsky.social and me for "Global Law and Particular Legalities: Essays in Honour of William Twining". We received an overwhelming number of submissions (well over 80 abstracts), with a very high standard of work across the board. 1/2

We're overjoyed to announce that we are going to create the Foucault's Panopticon, from Foucault's classic cautionary essay For Fucks Sake Don't Let Them Create The Panopticon

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Shabana Mahmood here, and the vibes are not getting better.

10am meeting on January 2 is cruel & unusual punishment for a Scot…

🚨🚨 Call for papers!!! 🚨🚨 Together with @jenhendry.bsky.social, I am excited to ask for contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Law, dedicated to the legacy of the late and wonderful William Twining. Full details to follow:

Very much enjoyed giving the keynote at the Cultivating Research Impact in Socio-Legal Studies workshop at Monash University’s Australian Centre for Justice Innovation. Many thanks to Genevieve Grant & Marc Trabsky for the invitation, and to participants for the great questions.

Can’t stop watching the Scotland goals 🤩🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙌 4️⃣-2️⃣🎉

📣School of Law academic in the news! Our Professor @drmitchtravis.bsky.social is quoted in this @theguardian.com piece discussing the policy and legality of surgeries conducted on intersex children 👇 tinyurl.com/47uhv7ur @lsjleeds.bsky.social

‘I don’t want anyone to suffer like I did’: the intersex campaigners fighting to limit surgery on children

What should be done about the small proportion of babies born with genitals that are neither typically male nor typically female? Many of those affected believe parents and doctors are often too quick...

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Many many congratulations to my good friend @drmitchtravis.bsky.social on his promotion to Professor. I had the privilege of working with Mitch for the bones of a decade and this recognition of both his talent & hard work is extremely well deserved. 👏👏👏

Over at the JLS-Blog, we published some thoughts on our recently published edited volume on "Socio-legal Trajectories Across Europe" @naomialderman.bsky.social @jenhendry.bsky.social journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/meet-th...

Meet the book editors - Socio-legal trajectories across Europe: comparative perspectives | Journal of Law and Society

Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jen Hendry (L-R) Christian Boulanger, Naomi Creutzfeldt and Jen Hendry Socio-legal trajectories across Europe: co ...

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NEW from me: Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent. That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

I love to see stuff like this because it helps explain to people trapped in tech-sponsored information bubbles the actually obvious fact that universities teach people to know & think things, and AI is a way to produce the effect of knowing & thinking things w/o actually knowing & thinking them.

Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

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Wrote a thing on the hot summer of uni AI adoption for @defector.com A huge thanks to @nathankhensley.bsky.social and @anniemcc.bsky.social. @brandyjensen.bsky.social is a legend. And anything smart in hear is thanks to hours of discussion, texting, and draft reading by @smosment.bsky.social

Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI | Defector

If you don’t work at a university or have college-age kids, you may have missed the flurry of news stories and social media banter about AI adoption in higher ed, stories which have snowballed into th...

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Now Open @elengebretsen.bsky.social @martindimarco.bsky.social @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social @jenhendry.bsky.social @sandraduffy.bsky.social @kirstenwidner.bsky.social @smhall.bsky.social @racheljwechsler.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social

Interested in PG study or doctoral research at #CUHK? Consider attending CUHK Postgraduate Virtual Info Week 2025, October 20-31, details via the link: www.gs.cuhk.edu.hk/admissions/a...

Join any of the following information sessions, directly communicate with our Professors and current students, and discover how CUHK can elevate your career and open doors to a world of opportunities:

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We are delighted to reveal the #BookerPrize2025 shortlist – six books that ‘are all brilliantly written and brilliantly human’. ➡️ Discover the full list: thebookerprizes.com/bp2025

This paper that the brilliant @mwewerinke.bsky.social and I coauthored for @iclq.bsky.social is probably my most significant piece of work on statehood and sea-level rise. Find it here, open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

MS Word, why do you hate ‘particular’? Sometimes it’s necessary, better even, so miss me with the pass-agg underlining already

Nice to receive my copy of this book! Such an enjoyable project - great contributors and a memorable Oñati workshop. @cmboulanger.bsky.social @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @mpilhlt.bsky.social @hartpublishing.bsky.social www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/prof-jen...

Happy first day of semester to all who celebrate #cuhk #cuhklaw #hongkong

🚨 OFFICIEL ! 𝗣𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘̀𝗥𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗘 𝗦𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗘̀𝗥𝗘, 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗧 𝗠𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (𝟮𝟴 𝗮𝗻𝘀) 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘́ 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝟯𝟬 𝗗𝗨 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗡 𝗗’𝗢𝗥 ! 🌕👏

Congratulations to Scott McTominay, who has been nominated for football's most prestigious individual award. The Scotland midfielder is among the Ballon d'Or nominees after a season in which he won the league with Napoli and was named Serie A MVP, while becoming a hero on the streets of Naples