Peter Oliver

BOOK: Donal K. COFFEY & Stefan VOGENAUER (eds.), Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire [Global Perspectives on Legal History; 25] (Frankfurt am Main: Max-Planck-Institut für Rechtsg... (image source: MPILHLT) Presentation: The legal history of the British Empire is in its infancy. The research field Legal Transfer in the Co...

BOOK: Donal K. COFFEY & Stefan VOGENAUER (eds.), Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire [Global Perspectives on Legal History; 25] (Frankfurt am Main: @mpilhlt.bsky.social h 2025), XVII + 328 p. ISBN 978-3-944773-48-3, € 20,27 [OPEN ACCESS] 📖

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Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft

A group of over 60 German universities have left Twitter/X. These include the major Berlin universities:

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Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2024 - Call for Applications

Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2025 - Call for Applications, www.lhlt.mpg.de/summeracadem...

If you’re going to Montreal, Les cowboys fringants.

Topics under discussion at our project workshop this week at Humboldt University include the place of the ‘unwritten’ in German law; legal populism; the principle of the rule of law; legality; and the legal and political dimensions of unwritten principles.

Assistant Professor Job Family: Academic Leadership and Faculty Union affiliation: APUO Faculty/Department: Faculty of Law - Common Law Section Campus: Main Campus Date Posted: October 17, 2024 Applications must be recei...

Deadline is fast approaching for these two positions at the uOttawa Faculty of Law (Common Law Section): uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/uOttaw...

Specific needs in admin law, constitutional law, commercial law and tax law. Faculty are awesome & Ottawa is a great place to be!

Unwritten constitutional norms; a sustainable jurisprudence of Canadian constitutional law.

There's still plenty of time to register for this lecture by Seana Glennon of the U Ottawa Public Law Centre!! Dr Glennon will be talking about the role of deliberative minipublics in Ireland (and their potential role in Canada). Register here: ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Executive Power This open access book considers the function of the royal prerogative in the changing landscape of the British constitution.It explains each of the prerogative…

As part of our recently completed SSHRC project on royal prerogative reform, Robert Hazell and Tim Foot authored the book:

"Executive Power The Prerogative, Past, Present and Future"

The book is now available open access:

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Have started a list of public/ constitutional lawyers on bluesky. Happy to add ppl!

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Why is Constitutional History Back in Fashion?

Interesting article on the revival of constitutional history (in history depts)
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Academic publishing is a lucrative scam – and we’re determined to change that | Arash Abizadeh Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to start our own, says academic Arash Abizadeh

More on the mass resignation of editors of 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘺 & 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 𝘈𝘧𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘴: an op-ed by yrs truly in The Guardian, about the commercial academic publishing scam

#PolTheory #philsky #polisky #academicsky

Many congratulations Yuvraj!

Very happy that my piece 'Challenging common good constitutionalism' - a review essay on Adrian Vermeule's book - has been accepted by Jurisprudence. Pre-print should be on SSRN soon...

I’m saying this keeping in mind that this is careful formal writing not a rushed signature.

To me it’s Laurence. Look at the other ‘r’s, for example in ‘Nora’, isolate the ‘r’ in ‘L—rence’ and then see what’s in front of the ‘r’. The only way you can make a ‘w’ is if you take away from the ‘r’. The spelling ‘Laurence’ keeps the ‘r’ whole.

Deeply sad to learn that John Pocock passed away yesterday at the extraordinary age of 99. The greatest historian of political thought of his generation, he was perhaps the greatest historian of historiography we'll ever see. Il miglior fabbro.

Posted elsewhere: Some thoughts promoted by Policy Exchange's paper on the Rwanda Bill, in which I (and other academics) are accused of being wildly irresponsible and inviting the courts to overthrow parliamentary sovereignty: threadreaderapp.com/thread/17348...

The Rwanda Bill and its constitutional implications The Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill has been published with much fanfare, following the conclusion a treaty between the UK and Rwanda that provides for some asylum-seekers to be removed...

Required reading. publiclawforeveryone.com/2023/12/06/t...

My Law and Society presidential address has finally been published and it’s open access. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us for the next annual conference of the International Society of Public Law (ICON-S) on July 8-10 in Madrid - details in the call 👇

Dalhousie's law school is hiring for the James S. Palmer Chair in Public Policy and Law. It's a 5 year position with incredible latitude and significant resources to help make connections, both theoretical and practical, between law and public policy. Tenure track, level open, JD required. Join us!

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Here it is -- come and get it!!

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Always good cooking w/ @nigelb.bsky.social & @davevwright.bsky.social!