Dr Kate Farrant Shaw

Purrfect academic companions keeping watch

'The Book of Kells' - Looking forward to reading this new wonderfully illustrated book at the weekend which also sets out 'an important new potential provenance for the Book of Kells'.
theconversation.com/book-of-kell...
#medievalsky

EU takes new measures to strengthen research and security across Europe The European Commission has announced a series of new measures to reinforce research security across the European Union

EU Commission announces new measures to reinforce research security across EU
www.openaccessgovernment.org/eu-takes-new...

Blue skies over Knaresborough this morning

AI and Fundamental rights - Report of interest from Liberty to the European Commission’s Digital Omnibus Simplification
www.liberties.eu/f/gyrerh

Europe Wrote the AI Rulebook. Can it Deliver on its Ambitions? | TechPolicy.Press Europe needs a complementary Continental AI Democracy Action plan to enforce existing frameworks, write Natali Helberger, José van Dijck and Claes de Vreese.

EU AI Rulebook piece of interest - 'Europe Wrote the AI Rulebook. Can it Deliver on its Ambitions?'
www.techpolicy.press/europe-wrote...

A stunning treasure of Norwegian medieval legal history to explore - the Codex Hardenbergianus (GKS 1154 folio) - an illustrated law book with magnificent red and gold leaf in the illustrations. #medievalsky

EU ROL news of interest - 'Rule of law declined in over two thirds of EU countries, World Justice Project says'
www.euronews.com/2025/10/28/r...

The Venice Commission and the Lawmaking Process in Constitutional Reconstruction - Hague Journal on the Rule of Law Over the past two decades, the Venice Commission has played a central role in promoting constitutional reform and the rule of law across Europe. Through its soft law instruments—most notably the Rule ...

Constitutional reform/Venice Commission - New article of interest - 'The Venice Commission and the Lawmaking Process in Constitutional Reconstruction'
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The amazing door of St Edward’s church, Stow on the Wold which is reputed to have inspired Tolkien‘’s doors of Durin

Autumn splendour in the forest today

'Magna Carta and the North' - Durham Cathedral incredibly possess three issues of Magna Carta in its archives, including a 1216 issue. These issues feature in the excellent 'Magna Carta and the North exhibition' at Durham Cathedral.
www.durhamcathedral.co.uk/visit-us/thi...
#medievalsky

False Analogies? Rule of Law ‘Backsliding’ and Identitarian Claims in Hungary, Poland, and Romania - Hague Journal on the Rule of Law The article analyses the identity jurisprudence of the Constitutional Courts of Romania, Hungary and Poland. Identity expressions formulated by the constitutional courts in the three juridictions were...

EU ROL - New article of interest analysing the identity jurisprudence of the Constitutional Courts of Romania, Hungary and Poland- 'False Analogies? Rule of Law ‘Backsliding’ and Identitarian Claims in Hungary, Poland, and Romania'
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

AG Medina delivers Opinion on compatibility with protection of personal data of seizure of emails during antitrust investigation without judicial authorisation - EU Law Live Today, Advocate General (AG) Medina delivered her Opinion in three joined cases concerning preliminary references by the Tribunal da Concorrência, Regulação e Supervisão (Competition, Regulation and S...

EU antitrust investigations/Protection of personal data news of interest - AG Medina delivers Opinion on compatibility with protection of personal data of seizure of emails during antitrust investigation without judicial authorisation
eulawlive.com/ag-medina-de...

A treasure of English medieval legal history – A Doom of Ine, King of Wessex. (This version is contained in an appendix of Alfred the Great’s dōmbōc – “book of judgments”, a 9th-century juridical text) (Image of Laws of King Ine, British Library) #medievalsky

New exciting book to explore on the principles shaping EU law: autonomy, conferral, equality, national identity, loyalty, solidarity, supremacy and effectiveness.
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/structura...

An amazing Tolkien drawing displayed in the Weston Library, Oxford last week

EU Rule of Law - New Op-Ed of interest - : “Overcoming Hungary’s Abusive Use of the Veto in Accordance with the Treaties: The Member State’s Obligation of Sincere Cooperation”
eulawlive.com/op-ed-overco...

Transparency in EU Law This book provides a perspective on how the topic of transparency has been addressed in the European law domain, and in EU food law specifically.

Transparency in EU law - New book of interest out soon - link.springer.com/book/9783032...

A purrfect academic companion assisting with dissertation marking this afternoon

Treasures of legal history - A magnificient medieval illuminated legal statutes book containing the 1225 Magna Carta and which was recently displayed at the Weston library in Oxford #medievalsky

Privacy and AI fears, in EU bonfire of digital red tape EU data laws are to become more business-friendly after 19 November, when the EU Commission unveils its "digital omnibus", amid privacy and security concerns.

Concerns about deregulation in the name of simplification in the EU observer piece - 'Privacy and AI fears, in EU bonfire of digital red tape' -
euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the...

EU ROL/Judicial Independence standards- Recent op-ed of significance on the Daka case (C-422/23) and “Decline of Judicial Independence Standards in EU Law?'
eulawlive.com/op-ed-declin...

Autumn ramble

An impressive display of Tolkien books in Blackwells in Oxford today

An amazing medieval treasure on display today at the Bodleian library in Oxford - Queen Margaret of Scotland's pocket gospel book (MS Lat liturg f s fols 2iv-22r, St Luke's Gospel) #medievalsky

An amazing treasure of legal history on display today at the Bodleian library in Oxford - the Magna Carta (issued in the name of King Henry lll 1217)

The EU Court rules in favor of Denmark in the case of cabotage transport Denmark has not acted in violation of EU law by restricting cabotage transport, the EU Court has ruled.

cabotage transport- Interesting CJEU case where it riles in favour of Denmark
europeannewsroom.com/the-eu-court...

Op-Ed: “Decline of Judicial Independence Standards in EU Law? Daka (C-422/23)” - EU Law Live Introduction The Court of Justice’s ruling of 1 August 2025 in Daka (C-422/23, C-455/23, C-459/23, C-486/23 and C-493/23) marks a disturbing point in the Union’s protection of judicial independence. …

CJEU/Judicial Independence standards article of interest eulawlive.com/op-ed-declin...

Early morning in Oxford