Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social Wears a black cape and fights crime. Not Batman.
Sunday Times No.1 Bestselling author•The Secret Barrister•#FakeLaw•Nothing But The Truth•
Also writes thrillers. The Cut Throat Trial out now at all good bookshops.
Kill All The Lawyers coming July 2027…
Institute for Government @instituteforgovernment.org.uk The UK’s leading independent think tank working to make government more effective.
➡ Find our latest research, analysis, events and opportunities
https://linktr.ee/instituteforgov
Dominic Casciani @bbcdomc.bsky.social BBC News Home and Legal Correspondent. // Stories // Features // Analysis // Documentaries // The Mafia Man in the Lancashire Caravan: http://bbc.in/2UV2ILv
Linktree and contact details: https://linktr.ee/bbcdomc
Alice Lilly @aliceolilly.bsky.social Freelance research/policy/advocacy/writing on all things Parliament and government. Associate at IfG and Associate at State of the Future.
PhD in modern US/UK history.
Sport fan. Mum of one. Views my own.
Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social PhD @eui-eu.bsky.social; Professor in EU Law/Deputy HoD at @sdu.dk. EU & #brexit nerd. #Ukraine supporter. Member @ec.europa.eu's expert group on EU Crim Policy. Author of "Normative Foundations of EU Criminal Justice" @hartpublishing.bsky.social
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU
SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social Always ask yourself, what would Lord Diplock think?
https://spinninghugo.wordpress.com/
John Curtis @johncurtis.bsky.social Senior Researcher/Clerk at the House of Commons Library, researching Asia, Americas and the NI Protocol. War Studies alumnus. Follow for tepid takes on uncontroversial subjects.
Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk “Well-known tweeting Barrister” Bar Council “Popular anonymous Barrister” Daily Mail “Possibly cabin crew” my neighbour
Alex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social Executive Director, Institute for Government. Ex-Cabinet Office, Defra, Dept of Health. Interested in all things good government
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things.
Peter Ungphakorn @coppetainpu.bsky.social In 🇨🇭, from all over. Mainly trade. Journalist. WTO Secretariat 1996-2015. Usual disclaimers. Member: http://fmg-geneva.org.
Web: https://tradebetablog.wordpress.com/ (follow for alerts)
Richard Moorhead @richardmoorhead.bsky.social Law prof in UK, and Australia (Exeter and Monash). Blogs on lawyers https://lawyerwatch.wordpress.com/ and PO Scandal https://richardmoorhead.substack.com/
Horizon Compensation Advisory Board. Plastic Geordie.
OBE
Anna Jerzewska @annajerzewska.bsky.social Founder of Trade and Borders. Customs and Trade Facilitation. Brexit veteran
Scott Wortley @scottwortley.bsky.social scottish law lecturer, TV viewer, accidental mental health advocate.
Interested in legislative interpretation and Columbo (but proper Columbo - you know the stuff from the NBC years, and more infrequently ABC episodes)
Sean Wilken KC @swilkenkc.bsky.social KC, mediator and arbitrator specialising in international, commercial, construction and energy law. GB FIS rep. May post about international law, politics and various security issues. Also skis, climbs, dives, fences, reads & writes the odd book.
Familoo (Lucy Reed) @familoo.pinktape.co.uk Family barrister
Author @nofamilylawyer
VC @familylawbar.flba.co.uk,
trustee @seethrujustice.transparencyproject.org.uk,
Crocheter of unneeded thneeds
“Not really a wine drinker…”
www.pinktape.co.uk
James Turner KC @jamesturnerkc.bsky.social Lawyer & pedant (1 King’s Bench Walk)
Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social Updates, commentary and analysis on UK immigration and asylum law. Sign up to our weekly email newsletter here: http://bit.ly/2yNDl3r.
Jennifer Blair @squeakinglyjen.bsky.social Feminist lawyer, Classicist, barrister at No5 Chambers. She/her or They/them pronouns
Patrick Lohlein @patricklohlein.bsky.social 30 years in Campaigns & Comms, International Business & Public Affairs in Asia & Europe | 中国通 | ex- @ToriesVsBrexit @the3million +++ | occasionally ✍️ 📺 🎙 at various | not always serious
Hansard Society @hansardsociety.bsky.social The UK’s independent charity working to strengthen Parliament through expert insight into how it works, why it matters, and how it can be better.
NOT the record of parliamentary debates! | https://hansardsociety.start.page/
The Bar Council @thebarcouncil.bsky.social Representing and supporting the 18,000 practising barristers in England and Wales.
www.barcouncil.org.uk
Naomi Cunningham @naomicunningham.bsky.social Barrister | Member of Legal Feminist https://www.legalfeminist.org.uk/ | Chair of Sex Matters https://sex-matters.org/
"Hateful bigot with incredible institutional power, and connections to the current UK government"
A man's a man for a' that.
- C Paul Evans @courtenayilbert.bsky.social Retired Clerk in House of Commons, continuing as a parliamentary nerd; Victorian by nature; books and buildings biggest passions. Lives in and cares about Wales.
Legal Style Blog @legalstyle.co.uk A web-log on legal style, with a focus on England & Wales. Also home of the ‘In the Privy Council’ podcast and the novelty @tritelaw.bsky.social account. Editor: Mr Elijah Z Granet @ezgra.net. Web: legalstyle.co.uk ; e-mail: editor [at] legalstyle.co.uk
Faisel Sadiq @faiselsadiq.bsky.social Londoner. British.
Barrister (Inner Temple) practising from
@gatehouse.bsky.social.
Interested in law and politics.
Fiscal and Defence Hawk. Socially Progressive.
All views are my own. Reposts are not necessarily endorsements.
Nicholas Reed Langen @nicholasrl.bsky.social Writer on law, constitutions, and human rights | Editor of LSE Public Policy Review | ReConstitution Fellow 2021/22
AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social Equality law compliance trainer and consultant. audreyludwig.com
Non-practising Solicitor. My personal thoughts on Equality/Disability/Feminism/ Access2Justice/LawCentres/FineArt etc. Founder Suffolk Law Centre. Repost not endorsement
Shiv is a velociraptor @shiv-who-burns.bsky.social Child of chaos, bearer of grudges, sitting on a throne of lies, erstwhile writer
Law and Religion UK @lawandreligionuk.bsky.social Frank Cranmer (Quaker), blogging with David Pocklington (Anglican) at www.lawandreligionuk.com about – yes, you've guessed it...
Derrick Wyatt's Law and Policy Blog @blogwyatt.bsky.social Derrick Wyatt KC, retired Oxford professor and lawyer
Law and Politics
Geopolitics and how to cope with Trump and Putin
Blog at http://derrickwyatt.substack.com
Jeremy Ogilvie-Harris @jogilvieharris.bsky.social Barrister, Cornerstone Barristers. Formerly of Hackney Law Centre, Southwark Law Centre and Queen Mary Uni. Public Law LLM from UCL. Interests: Public Law, Human Rights, Housing, Benefits, Planning, Data Protection and Information, National Security
Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social We are cats.
Marcus Flavin @lmbsaflavin.bsky.social Chancery barrister (Lincoln's Inn & King's Inns Dublin) , dilettante, onetime early med. historian, books, music, cats, SF&F fan, Catholic. OP3. Lives WYorks, Chambers in London, & often found in Greece. Views my own & subject to change with the weather.
Kerry Underwood @kerryunderwood.bsky.social Hemel Hempstead Adoptee.Socialist. Ex-Judge. V Ch. Hemel Hempstead Town FC, Chair Bovingdon CC. Trustee Cape Town Opera.Nelson Mandela. Elvis. TS Eliot.
Louise Thompson @louisevthompson.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Politics @ Manchester uni, Co-editor of Parliamentary Affairs. Researching small parties and all things parliament.
Gemma Buckland @doitjustice.bsky.social Director Do It Justice and Justice Futures. Criminal justice geek. Former adviser to Justice Select Committee. One time Clarice Starling wannabe. Views own. RTs not endorsement.
Geert Van Calster @gavclaw.bsky.social Geert is a practising lawyer and full professor at KU Leuven, and a visiting prof i.a. at Monash University, Melbourne. Mostly law. Just law. Blogs at www.gavclaw.com
Paul Silk @paulsilk.bsky.social Former parliamentary official. Devolution, parliaments, the constitution, rural Wales, Ukraine, amateur theology, and incompetent language-learning
Rupert Myers @rupertmyers.com barrister, political commentator, husband, father, owned by 🐶 Scout. 🇬🇧🇦🇺
Judith Townend @jtownend.bsky.social Sussex-based socio-legal researcher / Reader in Digital Society & Justice. media and information access and governance / public interest journalism / access to justice / social justice / sanctuary and migration rights
Alex Ruck Keene @capacitylaw.bsky.social Barrister, writer and educator, mainly mental capacity, mental health and healthcare ethics. Bluesky largely used to share materials - for contact, please email me at alex.ruckkeene@39essex.com.
Website: https://www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk
Elizabeth Darlington @edarlington.bsky.social Barrister, Mediator, Arbitrator, Author
Simon Myerson KC @scynic1.bsky.social Barrister. Chair Leeds Jewish Rep Council.
Prof Gráinne McKeever @mckeevergrainne.bsky.social Law Professor at Ulster Uni, Belfast. Co-Editor of Journal of Social Security Law. Former Vice-Chair of Social Security Advisory Committee. Writing a book on 'Effective participation for litigants in person: protecting the right to a fair trial.'
Alexander Chandler KC @familybrief.bsky.social Family Law Silk at 1KBW | Fellow of Chartered Institute of Arbitrators | PFDR evaluator | FRJ board | IAFL Fellow | Father of 3 | Long Distance Runner
Blog | https://familybrief.org/
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law and policy at The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Catherine Rowlands @cjr1968.bsky.social Barrister, Cornerstone Barristers, housing, care, public law
Travel, cats and reading are my other passions.
Likes or re-posts do not indicate endorsement. All opinions are mine, and not those of Chambers.
Nearly Legal @nearlylegal.co.uk Solicitor. Done housing law since 2006. The Guardian says top 5 for squalor. Legal Aid Housing Lawyer of 2018. Co-author of Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018. ‘Not an academic authority’ - Judge Carr. https://nearlylegal.co.uk
Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social Barrister. I defend people.
Joshua Rozenberg @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social KC (hon). UK's most experienced full-time legal commentator. Honorary bencher, Gray's Inn. Former solicitor (non-practising). Writes at https://rozenberg.substack.com
James Wilson FRHistS @alawyerwrites.bsky.social Author of books on history, law and cricket (more detail at https://jamesrjw.wixsite.com/jamesrjwilson). Biographer of Lord Denning. I also enjoy film, music and creative puns. From NZ but living in the UK. Likes/RTs ≠ agreement. All views my own.
Eliot Wilson @eliotwilson.bsky.social Writer, essayist, adviser | cofounder Pivot Point CulturAll | City AM i Paper Telegraph The Hill CapX Worth Spears | former House of Commons clerk
Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social “Gerontocracy in America” (2026)
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374607647/gerontocracyinamerica/
http://campuspress.yale.edu/samuelmoyn
Alexandra Kemmerer @kemmereralex.bsky.social law, humanities & beyond. senior fellow & head of berlin office @MPILheidelberg // always reading, sometimes writing @FAZ_feuilleton et alibi
Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social
David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social @Harvard_History professor. Honorary fellow @Catz_Cambridge
scholar.harvard.edu/armitage/home
Karen Tani @kmtani.bsky.social Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor in Law & History @Penn. Co-runs the Legal History Blog. Researches/writes about law & modern U.S. history: civil rights, social welfare, disability, federalism, agencies, the state. Dog person.
Gautham Rao (pronounced: Knicks in 5) @gauthamrao.bsky.social Historian. #LFGM #LFC NYM-G-K-I. my opinions. he/him/his. Author of White Power: Policing American Slavery. And other stuff.
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Jaakko Husa @husajaakko.bsky.social Professor. Comparative law/legal languages/legal history/constitutional studies/law & globalisation. Academic "humour". Posts indicate satire, perplexity or whatever. Opinions are my own, unfortunately.
https://ssrn.com/author=933550
Russell Sandberg @sandbergrlaw.bsky.social Professor of Law at Cardiff University, Wales, UK. Writes on Legal History & Law and Religion with focus on marriage law and education law reform.
No DMs - please email SandbergR@cf.ac.uk
https://linktr.ee/sandbergrlaw
MPI Legal History and Legal Theory @mpilhlt.bsky.social official account MPI for legal history & legal theory;
Data protection advice: http://lhlt.mpg.de/socialmedia
Rohit De @itihaasnaama.bsky.social Between Clio and Themis| Lawyer, Historian @Yale | Author of 'A People's Constitution (Princeton, 2018) | Politics. Pop Culture. South Asia
Legal History Blog @legalhistoryblog.bsky.social Scholarship, news and new ideas in legal history
Paul du Plessis @sententiaepauli.bsky.social All things Roman and Roman law.
Martin O'Donoghue @martinodonoghue.bsky.social Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt. Researching Ireland and India.
Author - The Legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-1949 https://shorturl.at/BNQNP
Views own
Caroline Derry @carolinederry.bsky.social Gender, sexuality & criminal law/history.
Early women barristers. Agatha Christie.
Professor of Feminism, Law & History, The Open University.
📚 Legal Temporalities of Sexual Consent (2025)
📚 Lesbianism and the Criminal Law (2020)
#ActuallyAutistic
David Foster @david-foster.bsky.social Associate Professor, UCL Laws. Legal History, Trusts & Property Law
Law & History Review @lawandhistrev.bsky.social Social media content for Law & History Review and LHR's digital imprint, The Docket. Feed curated by @gauthamrao. For inquiries about The Docket, email at lhrdocketeditor at gmail. LHR information at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/law-and-histo
Chloë Kennedy @chloejskennedy.bsky.social Professor of Law and History; more here: https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/dr-chloe-kennedy
Laura Cahillane @laurcah.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of Limerick. Also a musician and outdoor enthusiast.
Peter Oliver @petercoliver.bsky.social Prof, Centre de droit public uOttawa Public Law Centre. Constitutions, fédéralisme, jurisprudence.
(Tableau/painting : Marcelle Ferron)
Michele Stephens, PhD @michelemariephd.bsky.social Former AssocProf, PhD-LatAm History, LLM- Human Rights Law, researches gender-based violence and domestic abuse; (New) Jersey Girl
Mitra Sharafi @mitrasharafi.bsky.social Legal historian of South Asia at the University of Wisconsin Law School & president of the American Society for Legal History. Also love dogs & travel. Canadian & American. Views my own. On Instagram, I'm @mitrasharafi
Anselm Küsters @anselmkuesters.bsky.social Head of Department Digitalization and New Technologies, Centre for European Policy (cep), Berlin | Postdoctoral Researcher, Humboldt University of Berlin | Associated Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt am Main
Christian Burset @cburset.bsky.social Law professor and legal historian at the University of Pennsylvania
Kay @gothwhoreofbabylon.bsky.social ‘You look like spring.’
‘Goth MILF’
‘Whore of Babylon.’
‘Are you a goth?’
‘Nice boobies.’
‘Useless cunt.’
‘A beautiful woman.’
Not my words: the words of the general public.
Colleagues: I will not post about you. My employer shares none of my views.
Stephen Bogle @stephenbogle.bsky.social Interested in what we owe to each other. Ideas, private law, litigation, intellectual history (17th & 18th century), European legal history. Based at University of Glasgow.
Niamh Howlin @niamhh.bsky.social Associate Professor, Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin.
Researching legal history, legal professions and trials
Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social Law Prof QUB| Tyranny & Global Legal Order | Utopia | International Law | Feminism | Feminist Constitutionalism | Brexit & Northern Ireland | History | Law & Humanities | Cork & Belfast & Ireland | She/Her Sí/í
Sarah Milov @allofmilov.bsky.social Historian. Recovering Floridian. Charlottesville Now.
Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social Legal Historian @Northumbria Law School. PI @divorcehistory.bsky.social
All things business, gender, divorce & bankruptcy in the (very) long 19thC.
York and Newcastle.
Siobhan "Shiv" Mukerji Barco @siobhanbarco.bsky.social Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Legal Historian. Host of the Talking Legal History podcast.
https://aslh.net/talking-legal-history/
Dr O. H. Mahometes-Nathoo, LL.M @omar-nathoo.bsky.social Historian of 19th-century jurisprudence. Latin-loving, theatre-going book goblin.
Live in London. Work for Bright Blue, and Commissioning Editor for Centre Write.
Views expressed on here obviously my own.
Dr Renske Janssen🟥 @renskejanssen.bsky.social Law, Religion & Power in the Ancient World | Tacitus | Classics & Ancient History | Initiator of Dutch-language series 'Wegen naar Rome' (Roads to Rome; @wegennaarrome) on Antiquity in Popular Culture | VU Amsterdam (NL) | She/her | Posts in Dutch&English
Dr Stephanie Brown @drstephaniebrown.bsky.social BBC / AHRC New Generation Thinker | Historical Criminologist | History of Crime, Punishment, & Policing | Medieval to Modern | Expertise in legal & social reactions to homicide, suicide & abortion | https://substack.com/@drstephaniebrown
George Duke @georgeduke21.bsky.social Constitutional theory, legal theory, sociology of law, history of political and legal thought. A/Prof at Deakin Law School
Ben Griffin @historygriffin.bsky.social Associate Professor in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. Author of The Politics of Gender in Victorian Britain (2012).
Dr. Sandra Duffy Golden @sandraduffy.bsky.social Senior lecturer in law, dog parent, immigrant Bristolian, Irish.
Book on queer/trans law reform and coloniality out this year.
They/she. Fond of penguins. Views personal, not employer's. 🇵🇸
Header: @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social
eireannach.ghost.io
Joanna Grisinger @grisinger.bsky.social ABOLISH ICE
—the people, united, will never be defeated—
Jennifer Black @blackjen1.bsky.social Historian of visual & material culture, business history, fraud, trademarks, advertising. https://jennifermblack.org/
Author of Branding Trust (https://www.pennpress.org/9781512825008/branding-trust/).
Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social Historian
http://earlymodernjustice.org/
Sample articles:
https://earlymodernjustice.org/publications/
https://earlymodernjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/SlaverySovereigntyInheritableBlood.pdf
Opinions my own
Emily Prifogle JD/PhD @emilyaprifogle.bsky.social Prof @umichlaw.bsky.social. Legal historian writing book on 20c #rural #Midwest w/ @uncpress.bsky.social forthcoming Jan 2027. Teach property, fam law, #legalhistory + rural law. Co-founder of @womenknowhistory.bsky.social & @womenknowlaw.bsky.social.
Susan Longfield Karr @susanlongfieldkarr.bsky.social Historian of Early Modern European Legal & Political Thought, Renaissance, Italian Wars, Humanist Jurisprudence, Jus Gentium, Legal History, & History of Human Rights
Jus Gentium in Humanist Jurisprudence: On Justice and Right (DOI: 10.1163/97890045237
Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism.
https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ More books & essays: https://www.marydudziak.com/
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