Jeremy Letwin

Thanks very much!

Hi Shoaib. Do you know if there’s a written version of this, or if there will be in the future? Thanks

An Open Access version of this paper is available here: eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

This might be read alongside this excellent update bsky.app/profile/ejil...

My new article on Climate Change Litigation under the ECHR is out in @echr-law-review.bsky.social. (Thanks to my colleagues @lancasterlaw.bsky.social and @cohelongo.bsky.social for comments.)

brill.com/view/journal...

The amount of time it takes to mark an essay has easily doubled since AI as I am finding myself trawling through footnotes, Google, and my university library database to double-check that the articles and books cited actually exist.

Thanks AI-- you've really increased my productivity.

Proportionality, Stringency and Utility in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights Abstract. I argue that a form of indirect utilitarianism can provide a sufficiently plausible justification for three crucial elements of the ECtHR’s doctr

One option is to bite the bullet and say that proportionality is a utilitarian doctrine, which is exactly what I claim here academic.oup.com/hrlr/article...

Lake with mountains beyond. An old fence going down to the water. Cloudy sky.

20 bird species recorded from our house in Cumbria since Thursday.
House martin, wren, robin, chaffinch, goldcrest, willow warbler, nuthatch, wood pigeon, jackdaw, blue tit, great tit, siskin, wagtail, blackbird, osprey, buzzard, tawny owl, greylag goose, pheasant, chiffchaff.

Here's Crummock Water

Police say ill-fitting uniforms leading to crushed testicles and lumps in breasts Exclusive: Survey of officers in England and Wales reveals symptoms so severe that some have had multiple surgeries

The Guardian have a write up of some of the amazing work done by my Criminology colleagues, Camilla & Steph, on a national survey on police uniforms.
It’s been a massive project.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

YouTube video by The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel Tom Lehrer - Wernher von Braun - with intro

youtu.be/TjDEsGZLbio?... the funniest song of the genius Tom Lehrer

A very cool technology that allows students to interact with John Maynard Keynes’ ideas as he develops them is called a book

The Warwick 'rebrand' crystallises much of what is wrong with UK higher education today: namely (with honourable exceptions, of course) a fundamental disconnect between senior leaders and the reality of running academic departments and delivering teaching and research 'on the ground'.

They may have walled it, but the embarrassing screenshots will live on forever…

@samuelmoyn.bsky.social In 'Rights in the Liberal Tradition', Shklar says some interesting things about the links between romanticism and Mill's liberalism of personal development. It was overlooked and only published digitally in 2023 (journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...)

Not the Vogue article 😩 don’t try to make higher ed a (bad) luxury brand… I guess that explains SOME things. Warwick, just love yourself for who you are or no one else will. You were good enough 💜😳

Thought provoking piece from my good friend Sanjit here

I’m seeing a lot of this

I'm increasingly worried about one second-order effect of students relying on AI so much: that it undermines their CONFIDENCE to be able to distinguish smart-sounding but mediocre sludge from actually persuasive writing.... 1/3

My case note on Tindall v CC of Thames Valley Police. Perhaps of interest to anyone who read the judgment and found the reasoning confused. We say the root of the confusion is a failure to “deconstruct” the elements of duty of care (in the words of Donal Nolan).

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Bluebells at Rannderdale

Human Rights Protection of Non-Human Subjects from the Perspective of an ECtHR Judge Editor’s note: This post is part of the EJIL:Talk! Symposium on ‘Expanding Human Rights Protection to Non-Human Subjects? African, Inter-American and European Perspectives.’ As is well known, unlike m...

Fascinating reflections from Judge Eicke www.ejiltalk.org/human-rights...

Xi Commits China to Tougher Climate Targets as US Retreats China’s President Xi Jinping committed the world’s top polluter to more stringent curbs on greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade in global climate talks that took place without the US.

This is still very clearly the climate story of the week, and possibly the year.

If you're not old enough to remember the fall of the Berlin wall and the collapse of communism, but sufficiently old to remember 9/11 and the Iraq War, things have basically been on a downward curve since your childhood.

Inclusive legal positivism out of control

"A European Court of Human Rights ruling against Italy over toxic waste marks the start of a new approach to European states' pollution responsibilities, according to legal experts."

Important new environmental judgment from the ECtHR. Noteworthy that the Court adopted a "precautionary approach" [391]. Also important that exceptional approach to standing of associations from KlimaSeniorinnen confined to climate change cases only [220-221]. hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng#{%22item...

The Clayton and Tomlinson reference is funny. Lots of people, especially practitioners, still use the old 2009 edition (which is great btw). And lots of people, including me, wished they would put out a third edition. They never did though. Maybe GPT can write the third edition for us…

Home truths: the only thing Labour is building is a bigger, more dysfunctional housing market | George Monbiot Private developers offer politicians a simple solution for bulldozing through this crisis – build more. But it won’t work, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The standard terrible NIMBY arguments all on display from Monbiot

1.. Build more affordable housing not more housing
2. More housing won't impact price much
3. There are lots of empty houses
4. Redistribute what we have

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I have taken
the resources
that were in
the budget

and which
you were probably
saving
for higher education

Forgive me
they were needed
to feed the AI bubble
and to dismantle the humanities

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