Jackson Allen

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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

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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.

Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment... Book Launch - Alan Norrie, Rethinking Criminal Justice Punishment, Abolition and Moral Psychology

🚨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

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Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

"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."

If you voted for him, you've done this.

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

Call for barristers and solicitor-advocates act in Crown Court trials to be interviewed for PhD research about the jury. Please email nicola.monaghan@northampton.ac.uk.

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

“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?

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.

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!

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Understanding Miscarriages of Justice at 25 PROGRAMME.docx 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...

🚨 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...

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.

The day after Donald Trump’s election last year, three Georgetown Law students started a political movement to brace for impact. The students texted each other, started organizing, and eventually discovered the ability to perform a simple act to put the world’s wealthiest and most powerful law firms on the defensive. They created a spreadsheet. “Fascist Attacks Tracker” After Trump signed executive orders singling out law firms for political retribution, the students recorded BigLaw’s responses in a document they titled “Legal Industry Responses to Fascist Attacks Tracker.”

"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...

And I should say this is only shocking because we have also normalised salaries of less than £50k… There are newly qualified first year trainees in law firms asking for our expert opinions making more than that

It’s so disheartening just how normalised it has become for a job ad that requires the applicant to have attained the highest academic degree possible in human higher education to offer a salary of less than £35k a year. It’s crazy.

York Law School PhD Department Studentship 2025 - 26 at University of York Discover a York Law School PhD Department Studentship 2025 - 26 on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

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A message from President Jonathan Levin and Provost Jenny Martinez

Stanford speaks out in support of Harvard:

"America’s universities are a source of great national strength, creating knowledge and driving innovation and economic growth. This strength has been built on government investment but not government control."

news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Some personal news: I’ve temporarily paused the tiny iPhone screw factory I was building in Ohio.

This is also a damning indictment of UUK and every single Vice Chancellor in the UK. They've utterly failed to convince the government that action is needed to save the higher education sector, despite their disgustingly large salaries. What are they actually being paid to do?

MPs being (rightly) recalled over the 2,700 jobs at risk in British steel, while 5,000 university jobs are actively being cut this year with a further 5,000 jobs under threat and very little intervention is... interesting. Academia is also an industry in collapse.

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1393...

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

The exchange between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office today in which our country attacked the victim in defense of a brutal aggressor has to be one of the most shameful moments in Modern American history.

Q: how to 6x DOGE savings ($2.5b)?

A: Cut subsidies to Tesla ($15b)