Burkhard Schafer

@burkhardschafer.bsky.social

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Intellectual nomad grazing across the borders of law and computer science, University of Edinburgh. Corrupting the youth since 1996. Re-skeeting = unconditional love https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/people/professor-burkhard-schafe

a painting of a bear on a monocycle, balancing lots of food, and the name "Blind bear" underneath it

shapes of large dragons flying under a clouded, grey sky. Their wings are extended, and they look a little bit like paragliders, in a very bad light

Silhouette of an iron dragon sculpture, black against blue evening sky, and a huge real flame bursting from his mouth. Dragon stands erect on hindlegs, head thrown back on his long neck

The window of a shop in Krakow: underneath a painted glass image of a monk, lots of cute toy dragons in blue, green and red

Cover of a book by Oliphant from 1885, titled the Law of the Horse. It was a standard textbook in many undergraduate law courses at the time

me dressed in full highland dress with the Tartan of Edinburgh University (bue, red and purple), in dance pose with raised left arm over head

an image from the Hubble Space Telescope - thousands of stars that look just like a white skull against a dark background