‘The truth is that both ministers and vice-chancellors are locked into a financial model whose premise is misconceived and whose side effects are profoundly damaging for higher education.’
Stefan Collini on the UK’s university problems, online now from the next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Here we go: new @eui-law.bsky.social working paper by @sophieduroy.bsky.social and myself on the European Court of Human Rights and mass/bulk surveillance. We critique the ECtHR for its turn to proceduralism and reasonableness over the essence of HR & proper proportionality hdl.handle.net/1814/95303
The list of countries threatened with U.S. military intervention is growing
· Venezuela 🇻🇪
· Iran 🇮🇷
· Cuba 🇨🇺
· Greenland 🇬🇱
· Canada 🇨🇦
…just this year!
Do they all want "Liberation"? No, I argue in
@foreignaffairs.com
The state of higher education in the UK, in a photo
Excellent piece. Two key points, in my view:
"The strike manufactured the war whose laws it now invokes for cover."
"Whatever is permissible for Israel and the United States in 2026 is available to any state with the reach to attempt it in 2027."
This paper critically analyses European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence on bulk data collection, situating it within the Court’s broader turn to proceduralism. We argue that, in cases concerning m...
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The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
Any attempt to fight this storm must start from the "recognition that the task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist – rather than, as at present, the other way round."
Stefan Collini in @lrb.co.uk. 3/
Simeon Shtebunaev
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...www.lrb.co.uk
Is it ever acceptable to kill a few to spare the many? Is assassination a powerful tool for the future? Great debate at HowTheLightGetsIn Festival with David Whetham and Roy Allison, hosted by Angie Hobbs and the Forum for European Philosophy.
🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨
Delighted to see our paper published open access in the @eui-law.bsky.social Working Papers series: hdl.handle.net/1814/95303
@martinscheinin.bsky.social and I critically examine the ECtHR's approach to mass surveillance and the future of Article 8 privacy protections.
hdl.handle.net
This paper critically analyses European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence on bulk data collection, situating it within the Court’s broader turn to proceduralism. We argue that, in cases concerning m...
hdl.handle.net
This paper critically analyses European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence on bulk data collection, situating it within the Court’s broader turn to proceduralism. We argue that, in cases concerning m...
Equality is not conditional. Dignity at work is not negotiable.
The EHRC Code of Practice has been published. UCU is examining it urgently.
This is a significant and unsettling moment and we will not leave branches to navigate it alone.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1451...
Benjamin Braun
"Washington cannot undo the Khamenei strike, and it is in no position to condemn an operation it materially supported. What it can do, and ought to do, is formalize a legal position before the next conflict forces one out of it," writes William "Chip" Usher. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/kill...
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How one strike rewrote the law of leadership decapitation.
