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Michael Ashworth

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Sociolegal academic at Newcastle Law School. Interested in medical regulation, medical pluralism, and talking about methodology. ENG/PT. πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Law, Cross-Pressures, and Deconstruction - Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies In this Methodological Musings post, Richard Mullender reflects on how deconstruction can be used to understand cross-pressures in law.

In this week'sΒ Frontiers' πŸ“• Methodological Musings section,Β Richard MullenderΒ (Newcastle Law School) reflects on how deconstruction can be used to understand cross-pressures in law.Β 

πŸ“– Read the full articleΒ here:

Β frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/law-cross-pr...

28.01.2026 13:21 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I guffawed

20.01.2026 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Many congratulations, Ben! πŸ‘

16.01.2026 08:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
"Geopolitical Union: Europe's Attempt to Take Back Control of Technology Regulation" by Benjamin Farrand

"Geopolitical Union: Europe's Attempt to Take Back Control of Technology Regulation" by Benjamin Farrand

Examines the European Commission’s concerns around the economic power of the US and China, its own security vulnerabilities, and how dependent it is upon technologies produced outside of its territory.

'Geopolitical Union' by Benjamin Farrand, Coming Soon

#LawSky #EU

https://cup.org/49d4mO9

14.01.2026 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Hahahaha

26.11.2025 17:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so shocked, they all seemed totally competent and well organised and -- πŸ€₯

19.11.2025 16:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A copy of Pedro Carlessi's book, The Institutionalisation of Public Brazilian Phytotherapy.

A copy of Pedro Carlessi's book, The Institutionalisation of Public Brazilian Phytotherapy.

One of the best parts of this job is having kind and brilliant colleagues send you their fabulous work in the post for you to enjoy. Muito obrigado pelo livro, Pedro!

18.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I was very confused.

16.11.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations! πŸ‘

07.11.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Omg, what a sweetheart 😍

11.10.2025 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Join us on the 22nd October 2025 from 1-2pm UK time for this talk by Professor Susan Marks (LSE) on: 'If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?' This event will be held online and in person and all are welcome. To register, please go to: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

09.10.2025 15:33 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Dr Chatbot

30.09.2025 13:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thank you to the excellent panelists, panel chairs, and attendees for making this symposium possible, we couldn’t have done any of it without you.

26.09.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Coming up this week!

Book your tickets for our big gay cabaret here:

www.eventbookings.com/b/event/law-...

πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈπŸŒˆπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆπŸ’‹πŸ’–πŸŽ‰

21.09.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

SΓ£o Paulo, here I come! πŸ‡§πŸ‡·

30.07.2025 07:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How many Britons believe in supernatural creatures or phenomenon?

Hypnotism: 60% say definitely/probably real
Karma: 38%
Ghosts: 38%
Telepathy: 30%
Reiki: 30%
Astrology: 23%
Witches: 21%
Speaking to dead: 20%
Magic: 19%
Crystal healing: 17%
Loch Ness monster: 12%
Vampires: 8%
Werewolves: 8%

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I always get him confused with Douglas Murray

19.07.2025 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

The MRI 😡

05.07.2025 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

E quais sΓ£o esses Englishisms, hein? πŸ€“

04.07.2025 08:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨You have just 1 week left (deadline 7 July) to get your abstracts in for Newcastle Law School's 2-day methodologies symposium, celebrating a whole gamut of methods, methodologies, and approaches, with fabulous keynotes! πŸ‘€

Full details on our webpage: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

30.06.2025 10:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Methodologies Symposium 'Law is but let me explain it once more' - Newcastle Law School - Newcastle University Exploring diverse, plural, interdisciplinary, critical, decolonial, anti-colonial and socio-legal methodologies alongside doctrinal and mainstream approaches.

Call for papers! We're hosting a symposium exploring legal methods and methodologies in September and the call for abstracts is now open. We're excited that β€ͺ@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social‬ & Prof Linda Mulcahy will be joining us as keynotes! How to submit and event details in the link

11.06.2025 16:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Call for papers for a major two-day conference on Legal Methodologies exploring the nature of the discipline, with really important keynote speakers. Any abstracts, if you are interested in participating, to be emailed to law.research@ncl.ac.uk by 7 July.

12.06.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 38    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

For someone who constantly mocks pomos, he certainly loves producing work that reads like a parody of that style of writing.

11.06.2025 13:28 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This makes me think of the gymnastics scene in Final Destination 5

06.06.2025 07:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you so much attending, Nayeli, and for enriching the workshop with such fabulous paper ❀️

15.04.2025 15:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Feel free to get in touch if you're a socio-legal ECR and are at all interested in interrogating methods and methodologies with our network πŸ₯³ We have plans... πŸ‘€

10.04.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Socio-legal Methodological Interrogations (SMI) Socio-legal Methodological Interrogations: a LatAm-European ECR Network is funded by the SLSA International Collaboration Grant and Max Planck Law, and supported by Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile.

Our inaugural workshop for SMI, a LatAm/European ECR socio-legal network, is days away - and we couldn't be more thrilled! Generously funded by @slsauk.bsky.social 's International Collaboration Grant and Max Plank Law, and supported by Universidad de O'Higgins, Chile.
www.ncl.ac.uk/law/research...

10.04.2025 10:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Why the Right Still Embraces Ivermectin Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it β€” and spread misinformation about it.

Interest in the anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin is resurging as conservative influencers promote it β€” and spread misinformation about it.

01.04.2025 06:04 β€” πŸ‘ 168    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 21

Begging public health leaders to understand the basic fundamentals of misinformation.

09.03.2025 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 850    πŸ” 97    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 3

Savvy lies

05.03.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0