Manchester Law School - Research @mmulawresearch.bsky.social Research news from a global Law School delivering top quality legal education, in the heart of Manchester. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Jen Neller @jenneller.bsky.social Fidgeter, dreamer, puller of threads. SL in law at MMU. Author of 'Stirring Up Hated: Myth, Identity and Order in the Regulation of Hate Speech'
Disappointing Lego Flags @legoflags.bsky.social I make flags out of Lego, but they’re not very good
MetroPolis @mcrmetropolis.bsky.social A research-led think tank, based at Manchester Metropolitan University that brings together policymakers, practitioners and researchers to share thinking and strengthen policy-making
UK HE News @ukhenews.bsky.social Watching the slow-motion suicide of UK universities evolve into its next phase: fast-motion suicide.
Guy Osborn @guyosborn.bsky.social Co-Artistic Director at The Soho Poly, www.sohopoly.co.uk
Academic at the University of Westminster, https://www.westminster.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/directory/osborn-guy
Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure, the only gong that matters
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
Roger Pielke Jr. @thehonestbroker.bsky.social undisciplined scholar and recovering academic @AEI @DNVA1 @CUBoulder @UCL | Subscribe to The Honest Broker ➡️ http://rogerpielkejr.substack.com
Jan Zglinski @janzglinski.bsky.social Associate Prof at LSE Law School. Fellow of Oxford Institute of European and Comparative Law. Football and law.
SportsAndHumanRights @sportsandrights.bsky.social At the intersection of International Sports and Human Rights Law. Run by Professor Ariel Dulitzky Naymark UTexasLaw UTLawHRClinic
Bev Clough @bevclough.bsky.social Prof Law & Social Justice, MMU. Feminist legal theory and critical disability studies. Health and Care. Current work- Doulas; Legal geography of home.
Disability, Law and Justice (Hart) Series Editor. Medical Law Review Book Reviews Editor.
Sport & Rights Alliance (SRA) @sportrightsall.bsky.social We harness the power of our partners to hold global sport accountable and advance human rights on & off the field.
➡️ Join the movement: https://linktr.ee/sportandrightsalliance
Richard Collier @richardcollier.bsky.social Professor at Newcastle University, writes on law, gender, masculinities, legal professions, law schools and wellbeing, family law. Plays and records folk-pop-post-punk music. Sounds bit like the Go-betweens. Location: Elm Lodge Housing Estate.
Rachel Causey @causeyrach.bsky.social nyc | @sportrightsall.bsky.social | hope, human rights + hot honey pizza ✨
Pedro J. Mercado Jaén @pedrojmercadoj.bsky.social PhD Researcher @eui-eu.bsky.social
Sport Ethics @MAiSI_Erasmus 21-23
Human Rights & Sport
Radio Primavera Sound @radioprimavera.bsky.social Radio Oficial de @primavera-sound.bsky.social
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Primavera Sound @primavera-sound.bsky.social Created in Barcelona 💐
Daryl Adair @daryladair.bsky.social Associate Professor of Management at University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Interested in politics, policy, and human decency.
Shubham Jain @shubhamjain224.bsky.social Human Rights | Sports | Cricket | Climate | Governance
PhD Candidate @cambridgelaw.bsky.social
Researcher @sportandrights.bsky.social
Member @cricketacademic.bsky.social
David Owen @dodo938.bsky.social Sportswriter, biographer of racehorses, Francophile, ex-FT, Authors CC.
New book: Aux Armes! - Sport and the French - https://www.thenightwatchman.net/buy/aux-armes-david-owen
@timoconnorbl.bsky.social @timoconnorbl.bsky.social Sport-obsessed lawyer. Pinotiste par larmes versées. All views personal.
"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is Cork." 1 Corkonians.
Antoine Duval @antoineduval.bsky.social Senior Researcher @tmcasser.bsky.social | Head of the Asser International Sports Law Centre and Doing Business Right project | PhD from @EUI-eu.bsky.social | Playgrounds #Sportslaw #EULaw #PrivateGovernance #BizHumanRights #TransnationalLaw
NUFC Fans Against Sportswashing @nosauditoon.bsky.social For Newcastle fans keeping a critical position on the Saudi ownership of our club. Against state ownership of our football clubs - CHAT FOR PRESS ENQUIRIES ◾️◽️◾️✊
https://www.nufcfansagainstsportswashing.org.uk/home
Tobias Zuser @duwenzhe.bsky.social university lecturer in Hong Kong / sport & culture / founder offside.HK / Auslandsösterreicher
David McGillivray @dgmcgillivray.bsky.social Professor, interested in events, culture, digital participation & sport (& the Dons)
FairSquare @fairsq.bsky.social Human rights research and advocacy in our specialist areas of labour migration, political repression and sport | fairsq.org | linktr.ee/fairsq | rebootfifa.com
Michael McCann @mccannsportslaw.bsky.social Associate Dean, Professor of Law and Director of the Sports and Entertainment Law Institute at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law. Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Legal Expert at Sportico. Ed O'Bannon's co-author. Attorney.
Dionne Koller @dionnekoller.bsky.social Professor of Law, Baltimore. Author of More Than Play: How Law, Policy, and Politics Shape American Youth Sport
Mark Conrad @sportslaw.bsky.social I teach and write about sports law, business and ethical issues. Have a podcast that is found at https://fordhamgsb.podbean.com/
Christopher A. Flanagan @legal-man.bsky.social Surprisingly old in-house lawyer | weekend academic | media, entertainment, sports law | @IntSportsLawJ | @BathCitySociety | views here all my own/disappointing
Nick De Marco KC @nickdemarcokc.bsky.social Photographer, Sports Lawyer. Author.
Art, modernism, food, books & QPR.
Holger Jakob @sportanwalt.bsky.social Fachanwalt für Sportrecht
FIFA Football Agent
Co-Host des Sportrechtpodcasts #LieblingBosman
📍Berlin
https://www.linkedin.com/in/holgerjakob
Dr Paul Widdop @paulwiddop.bsky.social Associate Professor | Relational Sociologist | Social Network Analysis | The Geopolitical Economy of Sport
Substack - https://substack.com/@geosport200?utm_source=about-page
Centre for Sport and Human Rights @sportandrights.bsky.social A human rights organisation for the world of sport. Find out more ➡️ sporthumanrights.org
Dr Victoria Silverwood @drsilverwood.bsky.social Criminologist, researcher, writer, advocate. Violence in Sport, concussion, hockey culture, social harm, Player Safety.
Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social Political scientist. Poetry enthusiast. Author: Kicking (Duke UP, 2026); Red Card (OR Books, 2026); What Are the Olympics For? (Bristol UP 2024); NOlympians (Fernwood 2020); Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics (Verso 2016) www.julesboykoff.org
Alex Krüger @alexkruger.bsky.social Impersonally dominated PhD candidate in (sports) law @ Umeå University
Project: Club Law and Capitalism
http://alexkruger.se/
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
Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social Guardian reporter and author of Jackpot: How Gambling Conquered Britain.
@marjolaineviret.bsky.social @marjolaineviret.bsky.social Researcher Health & Sport @unil. Lab-grown lawyer. Atty Geneva.
Trail runner running trails
Realist about law, passionate about science
Striving 2 bridge the 2
Jane Purdon @janepurdon.bsky.social Director, writer and lecturer in football. Interests: governance, youth development, the business of football (men’s and women’s). Author “The Homecoming: the Lionesses and Beyond”. Sunderland Till I Die. Views my own
Francis Awaritefe @francisawartefe.bsky.social Lawyer | Lex Sportive | Human Rights | Labour Rights | #398th Socceroos - Futbol | City Law School Alum| Living on Gadigal land
SPORT&POLITICS @jensweinreich.bsky.social Officially declared 'persona non grata' by a FIFA Ethics Commission. Subscribe to award-winning journalism: Olympic analyses, crime & corruption, bids. IOC maniac.
Newsletters:
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http://the-inquisitor-magazine.com/#/portal
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.
Simon Boyes @somewhatawkward.bsky.social Academic lawyer at Nottingham Trent University (sports, public and EU law). Broader interests in law, politics and sport. Often in combination. Scarborough Athletic, Cas Tigers, Yorkshire CCC, Miami Dolphins. Northerner.
Matt Slater @mjslater.bsky.social I cover the business/politics of football & other global sports for The Athletic. In other words, I mainly do bad news.
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/author/matt-slater/
Clifford Stott @cliffstott.bsky.social Academic, crowd psychologist, policing scholar, Professor, MBE. Liverpool FC, family lives with HD.
Football Law @footballlaw.co.uk Your go-to resource for overviews of football’s institutions and procedures, and analysis of the latest football law news and decisions.
Created and operated by Thomas Horton, barrister at 39 Essex Chambers.
www.footballlaw.co.uk
Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social German #geographer and #demographer in #Melbourne. I love and share #maps and #data that explain how the #world works.
Human Rights Watch @hrw.org 🔎 🌎 ✊
Exposing human rights abuses around the world.
Jan F. Orth @janforth.bsky.social Professor of Law @UniCologne, Criminal Law, Sports Law, Sports, Judge (on leave) - VorsRiLG (@LGKoeln, beurlaubt), Schriftleiter der @Spurt_Beck. Privater Account.
Stanis Elsborg @staniselsborg.bsky.social Head of @playthegame-org.bsky.social • Sport, history and politics • +45 61774915 • stanis@playthegame.org
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
Fiona James @fionajames.bsky.social Tutor, Dispute Resolution at BPP University Law School, Manchester
Solicitor (non practising) and insurance knowledge lawyer
Love being back in legal education
Brummie, mum to a teen, happiest singing, surfing and playing guitar
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.
Jonathan Herring @jonathanherring.bsky.social Academic Lawyer. Eater of beetroot and rhubarb
Lydia Bleasdale @parkendlydia.bsky.social Professor of Legal Education. Mum of two small humans and one (slightly) bigger one. Everton STH. Advocate of pockets for women. Own views.
The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social Writes about law, history, and policy.
At The Empty City blog and elsewhere.
Birmingham/London. Janeite. #AVFC
www.theemptycity.com
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…
Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social Sports editor @thenation Edge of Sports TV at http://youtube.com/therealnews Host of the Edge of Sports Podcast. Co-host of WPFW's The Collision.
Schona Jolly KC @womaninhavana.bsky.social All sorts of reluctance. From there to here. Barrister. Writer. Flâneuse.
Law. Human rights. International affairs. Opinions mine.
Tammi Gaw @tammigaw.bsky.social Sports Lawyer and strategist. Risk management nerd. Sports medicine in a former life. Author and Speaker. Purveyor of snark. Intolerant of racists, bigots and fascists. Lover of dogs, hiking, whisky and good music. Found in Scotland. She/her #InvestInWomen
Asser Institute @tmcasser.bsky.social The Asser Institute is a Hague-based research institute on #InternationalLaw & #EULaw. Research, events, education & legal perspectives on current affairs. https://linktr.ee/tmcasser
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