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We all know the Rolling Stones and Treitel story, right?If not here it is./1https://twitter.com/MagdLibAndArch/status/1380124182017638400 Treitel was a law Fellow at Magdalen in the early 60s.The Rolling Stones were booked by

The problem with originalism is not that its jurisprudential foundations are shallow. Outside of the USA (indeed outside US constitutional interpretation) it is orthodoxy on how you interpret legislative words./1https://twitter.com/scottjsh

Two things annoyed me about this webinar.First, its participants seemed under a misapprehension as to what the #RuleofLaw actually is.Second, there was a general misunderstanding of who international law binds,

Reagardless of the good taste or otherwise of these comparisons with Nazi germany (and @davidallengreen has a long thread in defence), one problem with these comparisons is that the Weimar

I am very sad to learn of Guenter Treitel's death. The most important post-war contract lawyer. He fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport, as he describes below. Worth watching regardless

How should the law and lawyers react to this? /1https://www.smh.com.au/national/high-court-inquiry-finds-former-justice-dyson-heydon-sexually-harassed-associates-20200622-p5550w.html First, the evidence is damning, the testimony of large nu

Inspired by @scottjshapiro 's in many ways excellent podcasts, a short thread on why "General Jurisprudence", taken to mean the answer to the question "What is Law?", is completely moribund,

The case against the random black box of juries, who give no reasons which is contrary to the rule of law, is exemplified by this careful decision of the HCof