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@jenhendry.bsky.social

Professor, CUHK Law | Visiting Professor, University of Leeds School of Law | Affiliate, mpilhlt | Co-Editor-in-Chief, German Law Journal | Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers | Scot in Hong Kong, occasionally Yorkshire.

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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.

06.02.2026 06:21 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

22.01.2026 07:53 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

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

20.01.2026 11:59 — 👍 131    🔁 38    💬 6    📌 0

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

02.01.2026 01:54 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

🚨🚨 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:

11.12.2025 09:03 — 👍 11    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 2
Shot showing screen, lectern, and participants at the Cultivating Research Impact in Socio-Legal Studies workshop at Monash University

Shot showing screen, lectern, and participants at the Cultivating Research Impact in Socio-Legal Studies workshop at Monash University

Front page of the workshop schedule, showing the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation logo and the title of my keynote: Both Accident & Design: Intentionality, Agility, & Serendipity in Cultivating Socio-Legal Impact.

Front page of the workshop schedule, showing the Australian Centre for Justice Innovation logo and the title of my keynote: Both Accident & Design: Intentionality, Agility, & Serendipity in Cultivating Socio-Legal Impact.

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.

25.11.2025 00:30 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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

19.11.2025 04:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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‘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...

📣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

12.11.2025 12:17 — 👍 9    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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. 👏👏👏

07.11.2025 05:45 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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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 ...

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...

03.11.2025 07:27 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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 👀

31.10.2025 14:32 — 👍 1003    🔁 405    💬 34    📌 93
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Opinion | Why Even Basic A.I. Use Is So Bad for Students

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.

31.10.2025 11:13 — 👍 787    🔁 252    💬 14    📌 18
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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...

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

23.10.2025 16:44 — 👍 257    🔁 109    💬 15    📌 31
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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

13.10.2025 13:19 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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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:

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...

10.10.2025 10:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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

23.09.2025 18:54 — 👍 147    🔁 62    💬 5    📌 18
State Continuity, Self-Determination and Sea-Level Rise | International & Comparative Law Quarterly | Cambridge Core State Continuity, Self-Determination and Sea-Level Rise

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...

19.09.2025 09:40 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

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

18.09.2025 04:09 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Prof. Jennifer HENDRY has published a collected volume, Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives (Hart Publishing - Bloomsbury, 2025) - The Chinese University of Hong Kong Prof. Jennifer HENDRY has published a new collected volume Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe: Comparative Perspectives (Hart Publishing – Bloomsbury, 2025) in Hart’s Oñati International Series in Law & Society. Co-edited with Dr. Christian Boulanger, Max Read more…

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...

04.09.2025 10:47 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
View of CUHK campus from my 6th floor office: visible are the new accommodation block at United College, the UC water tower, the sky bridge, some lush rainforest, and a beautiful blue sky.

View of CUHK campus from my 6th floor office: visible are the new accommodation block at United College, the UC water tower, the sky bridge, some lush rainforest, and a beautiful blue sky.

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

01.09.2025 07:55 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 OFFICIEL ! 𝗣𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗟𝗔 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗘̀𝗥𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗜𝗦 𝗗𝗘 𝗦𝗔 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗥𝗜𝗘̀𝗥𝗘, 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗧𝗧 𝗠𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗬 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (𝟮𝟴 𝗮𝗻𝘀) 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗡𝗢𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗘́ 𝗗𝗔𝗡𝗦 𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝟯𝟬 𝗗𝗨 𝗕𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗢𝗡 𝗗’𝗢𝗥 ! 🌕👏

07.08.2025 13:23 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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

07.08.2025 13:28 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Radio 3 is playing an orchestral version of Sweet fucking Caroline, having just five minutes ago played Pavarotti’s Nessun Dorma. Kill me

28.07.2025 18:45 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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The Observatory has raised the T9 storm signal for the first time since 2023, with hurricane-force Wipha closing in on China's southern coast. The weather service urged the public to take precautionary measures, adding that it will consider issuing the T10. In full: buff.ly/cxQbpYd Photos: Kyle Lam.

20.07.2025 00:15 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Inclusive Public Space (IPS) - Inclusive Public Space The Inclusive Public Space (IPS) project explores how our shared streets can exclude disabled pedestrians, issues often shared by older pedestrians and carers. We test how law and policy respond to th...

🧵The 6-year @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant @ips-leeds.bsky.social is complete, as is their new website!

inclusivepublicspace.leeds.ac.uk
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30.06.2025 10:03 — 👍 7    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

17.06.2025 18:21 — 👍 23588    🔁 7328    💬 719    📌 283
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Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…

Happy publication day!
@n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social

Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe (Oñati International Series in Law & Society, Hart 2025) is now available to purchase: use discount code GLR BD8 at the checkout for 20% off.

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega...

12.06.2025 10:10 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

This is totally insane

30.05.2025 07:21 — 👍 49    🔁 14    💬 2    📌 0
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Socio-Legal Trajectories Across Europe What are the different institutional, intellectual and biographical trajectories in socio-legal studies, and how can they be compared?This book brings together…

Webpage now with updated ToC!
@n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social @cmboulanger.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/sociolega...

27.05.2025 04:47 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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AHRC and German Research Foundation renew research partnership AHRC and DFG have extended their bilateral funding agreement for a further five rounds.

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The longstanding funding agreement between 🇬🇧 Arts and Humanities Research Council with 🇩🇪 Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft has been extended.

Focus will be on joint arts & humanities discovery research projects. #ResearchinGermany
www.ukri.org/news/ahrc-an...

12.05.2025 15:44 — 👍 14    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1

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