Naomi Waltham-Smith @auralflaneur.bsky.social Professor at Oxford. Politics of listening, continental philosophy, music and sound studies, academic freedom. On the left. Views mine.
Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social Wonkhe (SUs). HE policy. Pop. Pro EU(rovision). Windmills not walls. Giggling incredulity. “Wasteful and inefficient for our economy”. Dreams of visiting Moldova.
enzo rossi @enzoreds.bsky.social
Political theorist, University of Amsterdam | Co-editor, European Journal of Political Theory | Radical realist, ruthless cosmopolitan | http://enzorossi.net | “Man, the man is killing us man” -VJ Emmie
Maria O’Sullivan @mariaosullivan.bsky.social Associate Professor at Deakin Law School specialising in human rights law. Undertaking projects on the right to protest and the human rights implications of AI.
The Constitution Society @consoc.bsky.social The Constitution Society is a charity which promotes public understanding of the UK constitution. Founded 2009. www.consoc.org.uk
Kevin Barker @drkevinbarker.bsky.social Legal Scholar. Criminologist. Arsenal. Neo-soul.
Graeme Hayes @graemehayes.bsky.social Sociologist, writing about protest, direct action, civil disobedience, and the courts. Can also be found wandering around cemeteries, staring at trains, attending random football matches.
Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com Comedian, satirist, writer, actor
Alex Sutherland @criminologist.bsky.social Criminology, public policy, research and experiments
https://sites.google.com/researchdesign.uk/alexsutherland
Newest paper https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11292-025-09726-0
Dr J Warr @warrcrim.bsky.social Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim
Bantshire University @bantshireuni.bsky.social We throb knowledge, we pulse excellence. Ranked No.1 in the UK for Canteen Facilities (CEF, 2024). Vice-Chancellor Vince Chancelier (He/VC). Parody.
Pete Fussey @petefussey.bsky.social Prof @ University of Southampton ~ Surveillance, tech, rights, security, criminology. Musician & @SxSW performing artist
@lawofprotest.bsky.social @lawofprotest.bsky.social Legal adviser @Amnesty (right to protest & civic space); Visiting @UEALaw; @OSCE_ODIHR Panel on Freedom of Assembly & Association
Thomas Probert @thomasprobert.com Documenting serious violations of international humanitarian law. Formerly @UNHumanRights.
Writes slowly on the politics of human rights and development. Posts slower.
London • Geneva • Cambridge • Pretoria
Roger Masterman @rogermasterman.bsky.social prof at durham law school; helps edit @publiclaw.bsky.social
David McArdle @davemcardle.bsky.social Sports Law, Employment Law, Head of Stirling University Law School, Scotland. Trustee @ spireitestrust. I do other things too. Insert specious disclaimer here.
Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social History's most successful legal podcaster, co-host of 5-4 pod. He/Him @fivefourpod.bsky.social
Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.
Dr Dean Knight @drdeanknight.bsky.social ⟦ law + govt ⟧ ⟦ coffee + kai ⟧ ⟦ critic + conscience ⟧ ⟦ rugby + rugby ⟧ ⟦ rainbows + unicorns ⟧ — usual disclaimers apply
Aileen McHarg @aileenmcharg.bsky.social Professor of Public Law and Human Rights, Durham University. Joint General Editor, Public Law.
Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social Professor of Law & Democracy @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Constitutional Law | Human Rights | Brexit | Devolution | Political Violence | Colonialism | Other Assorted Dourness
He/Him
Gareth Thomas @profgaretht.bsky.social Emeritus Prof, UEA Law School; Chair, Suffolk Law Centre; Exec Member, Law Centres Network; Founder, UEA Law Clinic. Posts on access to justice, employment & discrimination law, art, music, architecture, gardening, classic cars, Cymru, and NCFC 💛💚
RemembranceWatch @remembrancewatch.bsky.social Showcasing the best in #respecty remembrancing and poppy one-upmanship. Poppy ratings. Poppy Rage.
Wear your poppy/where's your poppy. Check the alt. Poppy.
H/T to giantpoppywatch on the other place. Lest we forget 🫡.
Mark Elliott @profmarkelliott.bsky.social Professor of Public Law, University of Cambridge. Fellow, St Catharine's College, Cambridge. Blog: www.publiclawforeveryone.com. Website: www.markelliott.org
Gavin Hales @gmhales.bsky.social Researching/discussing policing, crime and the criminal justice system. Senior Associate Fellow @policefoundationuk.bsky.social but my own views.
Based in London, UK.
Val Aston @valaston.bsky.social Criminal law lecturer, protest law researcher, long covid sufferer.
Michael Doherty @dohertylawteach.bsky.social Professor of Legal Design. Associate Head, Lancaster University Law School. Editor-in-Chief, Legal Design Journal.
UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social Watching the slow-motion suicide of UK universities evolve into its next phase: fast-motion suicide.
Daniella Lock @daniellalock.bsky.social lecturer in law, KCL
researching UK executive power, national security, political economy and human rights
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/daniella-lock
Liberty @libertyhq.bsky.social We challenge injustice, defend freedom and campaign so everyone in the UK is treated with dignity and respect.
Join us. Stand up to power.
https://www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/
Paolo Sandro @paolosandro.bsky.social Associate Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory @lawatleeds.bsky.social, author of 'The Making of Constitutional Democracy: From Creation to Application of Law' (Hart 2022), Open Access at
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4562656#
Jack Greig-Midlane @thejackgm.bsky.social Sociology of policing, police reform, public order, politics of expression. Teach criminology @ UWE. Will post cat pictures. Talks underground punk, indie, etc. ⚽️ #CAFC
Kate Leader @leader-kate.bsky.social Senior Lecturer @QMUL Law. Crim law and justice, laypersons and professionalism, conspiracy theories, law + performance. Director of QMUL Criminal Justice Centre. I wrote a book about LiPs. https://www.qmul.ac.uk/law/people/academic-staff/items/leader.html
Cian Ó Concubhair @cianoconcubhair.bsky.social Lectures criminal law, policing & criminology @ Maynooth University
Research: policing, media, crime, legitimacy & trust, power & resistance
Views personal
Sé/é
Dublin via da Banner
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/people/cian-concubhair
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
Second Reading @commonslibrary.bsky.social Unofficial bot account posting whenever the House of Commons Library publishes new research and analysis.
QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social Local University & College Union branch at Queen Mary University of London. || Account checked only part-time; allow time for responses or reach us via email. https://qmucu.org/
Dr Dion Georgiou 🇨🇾❤️🇬🇾 @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social Lecturer at Goldsmiths. Contemporary historian of British, US and global politics and culture. Writing a book on progressive politics, culture, and memory. Made in North London from working Cypriot parts. 🔴⚪️
Newsletter: https://academicbubble.substack.com
Luke Graham @lukedgraham.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Public Law & Human Rights | Univeristy of Manchester | Economic & Social Rights | Right to Clothing | Destitution.
Colm O'Cinneide @colmocinneide.bsky.social Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law, UCL. Irishman in London (and sometimes Brussels).
cats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social wlg fan club 🐈 email for submissions, credit and partnerships: weirdlilguys at gmail • IG: @ catsbeingweirdlittleguys • meme-inspired tees + stickers: weirdlilguys.com 🐱
Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social Professor of IT Law at UEA Law School. Geek. Privacy, Politics. Wolves. Irish and British. Not always polite. Expect herons.
Tara Lai Quinlan @quinlantl.bsky.social Lawyer & Associate Professor. Working on criminal law & procedure, diversity and inequality in policing, counter-terrorism & the courts in the United Kingdom & United States. Book: Police Diversity: Beyond The Blue (2025).
Jen Hendry (文林言) @jenhendry.bsky.social Professor, CUHK Law | Visiting Professor, University of Leeds School of Law | Co-Editor-in-Chief, German Law Journal | Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers | Scot in Hong Kong, occasionally Yorkshire.
Public Law @publiclaw.bsky.social A Thomson Reuters journal publishing research on public law: https://www.sweetandmaxwell.co.uk/en-gb/products/public-law. This account is maintained by the editors: public.law@durham.ac.uk
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…
Bharat Malkani @bmalkani.bsky.social Law academic @CardiffLaw. Racial justice; miscarriages of justice; criminal justice. With a smattering of human rights
Latest book: "Racial justice and the limits of law" https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/racial-justice-and-the-limits-of-law
UK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social The United Kingdom
Constitutional Law Association.
Gina Romero / Special Rapporteur FoAA @unsrapporteurfoaa.bsky.social Gina Romero, UN special rapporteur for Freedom of Assembly and of Association | Teaching at Universidad de los Andes, Colombia | Personal opinions, reactions not support - https://linktr.ee/GinaRomero
Jen @jennyflower.bsky.social Dr Jennifer Young,
TV Flannelist specialising in humour & the law.
If you won't buy my book on that subject👆, you could download it for free 👇
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/law-society-and-politics-of-entertainment-in-britain-9781509988662/
UK 🇬🇧 D 🇩🇪 ES 🇪🇸
Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social I research topics that make everyone feel very comfortable like periods, transphobia and abortion
co-convenor @reacpolrn.bsky.social (she/her)
Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social Imperial Island: A History of Empire in Modern Britain (Penguin 2023)/An Alternative History of the British Empire (HUP 2024). Is Free Speech Under Threat? (2024).
https://linktr.ee/charlottelydiariley
repped by Carrie Plitt @FBA
views are all mine 💫
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Jay Foreman @jayforeman.bsky.social ‘This Way Up: When Maps Go Wrong’ (the MAP MEN BOOK) is available now: https://lnk.to/mapmen 🗺️ 📕
Dr Ben Archer @benjaminarcher96.bsky.social Lecturer and early-career researcher | Views own | he/him 🏳️🌈 https://linktr.ee/drbenarcher
Dr Vicky Heap @drvickyheap.bsky.social Associate Professor in Criminology at Sheffield Hallam University, Fellow of the Sheffield Institute for Policy Studies and SFHEA. Interests: ASB, victims, policy, methods. ‘Mixed Methods in Criminology’: https://bit.ly/2Fbw5St
Amrit Lohia @amritlohia.bsky.social @amrit_lohia on Twitter. Anarchist/libertarian socialist. Green Party member. Formerly an Oxford mathematics student before having to withdraw on health grounds. Amateur interest in law and jurisprudence, especially public law and fundamental rights.
The Hard Times @thehardtimesnews.bsky.social Punk news coming your way
Go read the full articles: www.thehardtimes.net
Rebecca Wynter @rebeccawynter.bsky.social Historian of Medicine & Mental Health. Research Fellow, NTU-UK. Senior Researcher, UvA-NL. Honorary, UoB-UK. Policy Officer @sshmedicine.bsky.social. Co-convenor Mental Health Humanities Researcher Network https://mhhrn.bham.ac.uk/ She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ #Skystorian
Katrina Navickas @katrinanavickas.bsky.social Historian of protest, political movements, public space in Britain.
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contested-commons
https://historyofpublicspace.uk
Croydon and Rochdale
@ruralmodernism on Insta.
🇱🇹🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ ally.
She/her
William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social Lecturer in Heritage at a university near Colchester. ‘Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology’ out now with Cornell UP. Fellow, RHistS. https://williamcarruthers.co.uk
Lewis Graham @lewisgrahamlaw.bsky.social Lecturer in Human Rights Law at University of Manchester
Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social Retired criminology professor. Democratic Socialist.Written on political economy of crime, criminal justice and policing 1970s until severe COVID 2021. Last book Social Democratic Criminology. Love old mysteries, Westerns, country music, music 1930-70
Mike Rowe @mikerrowe.bsky.social Academic. Ethnographer of street-level bureaucrats and discretion, most recently police in particular. Liverpool.
James Greenwood-Reeves @jgreenwoodreeves.bsky.social aka Alice Aforethought. Lecturer in Law, University of Leeds, but views my own. Social justice, Law's a Drag, violent protest, Pride and drag, raging lefty 🏳️🌈
https://lawsadrag.org.uk/
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7253-9676
Centre for Criminal Justice Studies - University of Leeds @ccjsleeds.bsky.social The Centre for Criminal Justice Studies advances independent, theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous research on key issues in crime and criminal justice.
https://essl.leeds.ac.uk/law-research-centre-criminal-justice-studies
Martín Hernán Di Marco @martindimarco.bsky.social Sociologist. Violence, Femicides & Perpetration. Associate Professor at @OsloMet & Adj. Prof. @emoryuniversity.
Secretary @TG11_ISA & RC38. Food enthusiast
Jasper De Paepe @jasperdepaepe.bsky.social PhD researcher @Leiden University & Ghent University. Focusing on community policing and technology. Communications @ESC PWG
Gabriel Tan @finishedloading.bsky.social Public lawyer @admincourtblog.bsky.social
Alan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social Professor of Constitutional Law and Human Rights. Irish emigrant. I write about emergencies, terrorism, constitutional theory, and human rights.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
Adam Wagner KC @adamwagner1.bsky.social Barrister specialising in human rights, public law and public inquiries. Views my own https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/adam-wagner
Suzanne Dixon @suzmd.bsky.social PhD - protest and media
Lee Gregory (he/him) 🏳️🌈 @academiclee.bsky.social Associate Prof, UoN. Chair @Academics_Stand Founding member of @QPaPNetwork parkrun Event Ambassador and ED. New allotment holder.
David Mead @seethingmead.bsky.social Professor of UK Human Rights Law, UEA: public order/protest/policing/free speech/human rights
Poor but inveterate punster.Converse collector. Law, politics, Derby County, & music
Man of Sussex in exile…still fighting the forced East/West partition of ‘72
Jack Jones @storiesfromjack.bsky.social PhD student - protest law (legal geography of protest on highways).
Former professional dancer.
Geoff Pearson @profgeoffpearson.bsky.social Prof of Law & Director of Research at Manchester University's Law Dept. N8PRP Academic Director. Socio-legal research interests in human rights, policing, public order, crowd management, football "hooliganism", Ethnography, and sports law.
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