Aoife O'Donoghue

We ask who has authority to bring about constitutional change & how women have long been overlooked. We draw on #feminist theories exploring subjectivity, agency, #protest, and public space to articulate what feminist approaches to constituent power could be.

Feminist Approaches to Constituent Power AbstractDiscussions on constituent power are often concerned with who has authority to bring about constitutional change, and liberal constitutionalist res

Myself & @ruthhoughton.bsky.social have a chapter out in Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power that focuses on #feminist approaches

thnx Peter NiesenMarkusPatberg & Lucia Rubinelli for the invite

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So good, and more on time/aging and loss. They are doing such an excellent job here.

LOLS...not the Board of Peace?

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

Really useful showing the degree to which hallucinations are occuring - even when the claim is the tech is specialised enough it won't

Rigour is suppossed to be law's key attribute

Hallucination-Free? Assessing the Reliability of Leading AI
Legal Research Tools

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Fantastic to be able to talk to @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social on #CalledToTheBar out the Research Handbook on Global Governance with @elgarpublishing.bsky.social

Thanks for hosting us. It was great to chat about why we did the book & think about the authors in the book whose ideas really stayed with.

The perfect host as always! It was a lovely chat!

Shauna Lawless' books perhaps starting with the Children of Gods and Fighting Men

Obviously if you bring in other scandals you get Bertie & war crimes Tony & I could go on...

Fine example of how the women who were always there & continue to be here working away to ensure peace just get overshadowed by men, their egos & great man narratives.
That's two men on the GFA alone

Never read a fool Macroom... Though that I think is up for revaluation

Struck by how, just a week ago, the UK Parliament was still being urged by Lord Alton, Chair of the JCHR, to summon up the spirit of George Mitchell in addressing the legacy of the NI Conflict. So much "great man" peace making.

All changed, changed utterly.

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Grade inflation, insofar as it exists, has no clear connection to widening access. If wider access had taken place in isolation, grades would have dropped. Instead the marketisation of HE, with the removal of recruitment quotas, is the major issue. But the Telegraph cheered that on, so we get this:

Only explanation

Maybe he's a plant ;) deep plant. V deep

Really enjoyed reading the book & having the chats. Always a treat to meet Jean & to visit Trinity

Thanks to @jdamh.bsky.social & @aoifemod.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion of secrets and revelation in international law, chaired by our own Christiane Ahlborn, and comments from @mikebecker.bsky.social, @pearceclancy.bsky.social @suryaroy.bsky.social & ors

Loved the return of Dax! Brillant. Like that its Tawny Newsom. & that she's another different kind of mentor. And how they are tackling aging over all - the Doctor, Nahla & now Dax - bout what it means to live that long in very different ways & to see people die/leave & what grief is. Loving that

Thought the Sisko and Jake were so well done. For something so heavy it hit the right note.
Loved that SAM gets to be a teenager and be at that point where you bounce about ideas of who you are & get to really push back against being told how to be

I loved this episode...we too got a bit tearful.

Some of the pushback - tonely v different to DS9 - DS9 is tonally v different to TOS, so what.
First person - Data's Day?
Silly - TNG they dressed up as Robin Hood!
Rant on why the critique is just wrong over
#StarfleetAcademy rocks!

Loved all the coded stuff on culture and liberal humanism not actually being the solution to every situation. That there are times when you have to listen (or like the previous episode, a bit of patience) as starfleet & as a friend.

Adored the Klingon solution to a Klingon problem, hoping for a bit of GUBU next.
& that they've switched the universe up in 1000 years, its not the same as it was, Empires rise & fall, and any peoples will have changed over time.

& Mir's wanting to be yah we're the same, when he's not, he's actually on the planet he wanted to get to (albeit without his mother) he's home. But he sees being an outsider as a uniform experience. Really liked that, that he can't see his little bit of priviledge

I'm very late to this...but yes to all this.
R liking #StarfleetAcademy so far. Doing its own thing.
I also like Mir's knowledge of all the regs...but he also knew nothing, lovely nod there to actual debate skills.

On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order Cambridge Core - Jurisprudence - On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order

Going back to my book on #Tyranny this morning & 1 element stood out Hobbes' tyrannophobia - the foolish fear of tyranny - raising tyranny makes you foolish

But is not foolish & naming tyranny is essential to ridding it...but fear of being called a fool stops us!

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No media outside of Kansas has picked up on the fact that the state just enacted a de facto public ban and papers-please act against trans people, and they won't, because trans people are only newsworthy if it furthers our dehumanization.

The government’s retreat from Carillion audit reforms is feeble | Nils Pratley Eight years after systemic flaws were exposed, ministers have abandoned their long-promised overhaul in favour of another ‘pro-growth’ nod

Social democracy prioritises regulating capitalism to protect against market failures, except when audit hard, pro growth agenda, mumble, mumble...

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Has anybody collected pro-Trump headlines from UK newspaper commentators in one place? First & second term. Especially ones attacking his critics. If not, bung me your favourites & I'll do it myself.