SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social Open archive of social science. Free. Academy owned. Posts by director Philip N. Cohen. Say it: so-SHAR-kive (soʊʃɑrkaɪv). Website: socarxiv.org. New papers post at: https://bsky.app/profile/socarxivbot.bsky.social
Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social She/her. Human rights lawyer (national security, warfare); humanitarian law, civilian protection, and the occasional rant about Belfast. BPLS board member. Legal Director @propertyofthepeople.org 🇮🇪 / 🇩🇿📍Belfast / Paris / NYC
Alex Green (文浩航) @glexareen.bsky.social Associate Professor (Law), CUHK (Hong Kong SAR, PRC); Academic Associate, 23ES Chambers (UK); (international law, statehood, philosophy, culture, climate change & sea-level rise).
Book 1: https://tinyurl.com/bdfa86ve
Book 2: https://tinyurl.com/yc4nmrnm
Socio-Legal Studies Assocation @slsauk.bsky.social Where law meets the social sciences and humanities: advancing education, research, teaching & knowledge in socio-legal studies.
https://www.slsa.ac.uk/
LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/company/socio-legal-studies-association/?viewAsMember=true
Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist. Constitutional law & development, US migration(s) & citizenship law, legal history. ORDER my book: https://tinyurl.com/2sjcsupd Home cook, foodie.
Mitch Travis @profmitchtravis.bsky.social Professor housed in @lsjleeds.bsky.social at University of Leeds. Former Socio-Legal Studies Association trustee. Intersex Justice and Jurisprudential Futures. All views my own (he/him)
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.
Dr Arwen Joyce @arwenjoyce.bsky.social Lecturer in Law, University of Leicester. Travel writer and practicing lawyer in a past life. Interested in labour migration, labour law, legal education. She/her. Dual citizen 🇺🇸🇱🇺 living in 🇬🇧.
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.
Colin Perrin @glasshousebooks.bsky.social Interdisciplinary legal studies
Prof. Chris Ashford @lawandsexuality.bsky.social Professor of Law + Society Northumbria University. Deputy Faculty Pro Vice Chancellor R&KE. Queer theorist. Research: sex, sexuality and law. Also interested in HE policy & strategy. 🏠/🏢 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. 🏳️🌈He/Him.
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
Dr Rosie Fox @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social Lecturer in Legal Education @ Uni of Leeds, dragademic, socio-legal unicorn. Queer, working class, neurodivergent/disabled. D&D, Pokemon, Genshin. Likes pets, food, gaming and Sundays. She/they.
Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org We're a national nonprofit that works to reduce poverty, improve the lives of people with low incomes, and create pathways to economic security for everyone.
🔗https://linkstre.am/CLASPDC
Criminology, Law and Society at Mason @gmucriminology.bsky.social Department of Criminology, Law and Society | George Mason University | Graduate Program Ranked #10 in the Nation and #1 in VA by USN&WR
Northumbria Law and Society @nulawandsociety.bsky.social Northumbria Law School's Law and Society Research Group.
The Journal of Law and Society @journallawsociety.bsky.social The Leading British Periodical for Socio-Legal Studies
Jo Shaw @joshaw.bsky.social Head of @uoelawschool.bsky.social. Gen Sec (elect) Royal Society of Edinburgh (01.04.25). Law (esp EU). Citizenship. Sea swimming. Photos. Books. Gardening. Landscapes. Tain / Edinburgh
Joshua Shaw @joshuashaw.bsky.social Assistant Professor, #USask College of Law | Legal theory and history | Medical law, ownership and use of bodies and biomaterials | He/him
Saskatoon ᓵᐢᑿᑑᐣ
https://linktr.ee/jdmshaw
Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social Associate Professor at Deakin Law. Apparently International Law's cool queer aunt. Once had an ANU student call me a handmaiden of Satan. Disabled. Aces. Editor of Queer and Feminist International Law book series (Routledge). She/Her
Cheryl Saunders @cherylas1.bsky.social Australian and comparative public law in form, theory and practice
Ali Struthers @dralistruthers.bsky.social Professor of Law at Warwick Law School | SFHEA | Child Rights | Public Legal Education | Widening Participation | Creator of @schooltasking.bsky.social | Munro-bagging Scot (167) 🏴
“Surprisingly socially functional for an academic"
Ross Tugade @rosselle.bsky.social Filipino international lawyer. PhD candidate, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice.
Danushka Medawatte @dmedawatte.bsky.social Associate Lecturer in International Law at SOAS
PhD candidate @KentLawSchool, LLM (Harvard).
Working and writing on transitional justice, feminisms, ethnicity, and impacts of (armed) conflicts.
Mother and wife (she/her).
(Elizabeth) Chloe Romanis @ecromanis.bsky.social Associate Professor in Biolaw @ Durham Law 🤓 researching reproduction and the body (abortion, gestation, ectogestation, pregnancy, birth, novel technologies) ✍️ co-EIC Medical Law International 📓 she/her/dr
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
James Gilchrist Stewart @jgstewart.bsky.social Critical legal scholar.
https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-rise-and-fall-of-critical-legal-studies.html
Rafeyah Akram @rafeyah.bsky.social Global South Scholar, feminist, strong believer in research exception from IP(specifically copyright). Strong believer in Ubuntu in Trade and Investment field and accredited commercial mediator.
Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social Lecturer @ Melbourne Law School, Advisory board @verfassungsblog.de | comparative constitutional law, environment & animal protection, democracy & protest
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 
Tim Christiaens @timchristiaens.bsky.social Political philosopher (they/them) working on critical theory, technology, and labour. Assistant Professor of economic ethics at Tilburg University. Genderfluid 🏳️⚧️
Antonio Aloisi @aloisi.bsky.social law professor @ielawschool + fellow @nyulaw
platforms, AI, futures of work, social Europe
“Your Boss Is an Algorithm” – Hart 2022
http://lawtomation.ie.edu
Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social Professor of Law, University of CA, Irvine School of Law • Technology & Society • Work Law • Democracy & Inequality
General Counsel AAUP
Sam's sister ❤️
Personal Account, Views My Own
Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social Legal academic at the University of Cape Town - an ethnographer at heart, writing on international criminal law, borders, refugees & migration in central Africa.
Dr Joe McIntyre @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social Law Assoc/Prof @AdelaideUni. Judicial Studies/Courts/JusticeTech/Pseudolaw/Dad Jokes
Maja Janmyr @myrmek.bsky.social
Humanitarianism & refugees, past & present.
Prof. International Migration Law, University of Oslo. Also Senior Visiting Fellow, Lebanese American University & Associate Fellow, American University of Beirut.
Michael Ashworth @michaelashworth.bsky.social Sociolegal academic at Newcastle Law School. Interested in medical regulation, medical pluralism, and talking about methodology. ENG/PT. 🏳️🌈
Ben Yong @bymyong.bsky.social "Estimable" Sir Jonathan Jones KC
Associate Prof in Public Law, Durham Law School. Looks at how legislatures and govt works. https://www.durham.ac.uk/staff/benjamin-y-yong/
Mastodon: @bymyong@mstdn.social
Zoe Tongue @whiterxbbit.bsky.social Dr | Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds | abortion, international human rights law, animal rights, science fiction, comics | vegan | artist | bisexual | she/they
Camilla @camillapickles.bsky.social Associate Professor of Biolaw, Durham Law School. Researching #ObstetricViolence and abuse during childbirth
Jessie Blackbourn @jessieblackbourn.bsky.social 
Monica Hakimi @monicahakimi.bsky.social Professor of International and U.S. Foreign Affairs Law, Columbia Law School.
Dr Benjamin Thorne @benjaminthorne.bsky.social Lecturer in Criminal Law
@unirdg-law.bsky.social
Via PhD
@SussexUni
; Interests: socio-legal studies, transitional justice, critical theory. Book http://tinyurl.com/v77a942b
Guillermo Coronado Aguilar @gmocoronadoa.bsky.social Mexican, academic, arbitrator, international law expert. Street photography now and then. PhDing at HKU.
Tacos de lengua en salsa verde is my passion, café is my religion.
Spanglish.
Debra Haak @debrahaak.bsky.social law prof @queensulaw.bsky.social: constitutional law, criminal law, human rights, women’s rights
research: prostitution/sexwork, sex/gender, sex/violence
retired litigator
SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2778566
Neil Graffin @neilgraffin.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law and Head of Department, The Open University. Chair of OU Sanctuary Advisory Network
Dr Michael Lane @michael-lane.bsky.social Lecturer in Law, University of Worcester • SLS Public Law Section Co-Convenor • empirical legal research, mostly international human rights, United Nations, Universal Periodic Review, UK constitutional law • views are mine
Dr Danielle Watson @danielledoeslaw.bsky.social Lecturer @ University of Leicester. She/Her
All things Law, Disabilities, and Queer.
A student once called me a 'girlie pop icon'
T&Cs apply.
Cristy Clark @cristyclark.bsky.social Associate Professor (human rights & environmental law). I’m interested in legal geography, and water, climate & spatial justice. Co-author of The Lawful Forest (2022), author of Legal Geographies of Water (2025). Naarm. She/her
Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen @swethaa.bsky.social They / Them | Professor + Assoc. Dean for Research @ UCI Law
Interdisciplinary research on Legal Profession, Alterities, Queers, Souths | See - https://swethaa.com/publications
Rémi Fuhrmann @remi-fuhrmann.bsky.social PhD candiate in Law & teaching assistant | University of Glasgow
International Law - Legal History - Civil and Colonial Wars - IHL - Colonialism
https://www.gla.ac.uk/pgrs/remifuhrmann/
Matthew Weait @wetpaint63.bsky.social Chair, National AIDS Trust,
Emeritus Professor of Law & Society, Fellow Harris Manchester College, Uni. of Oxford. Bencher Middle Temple #law #pandemics #HIV #publichealth #education #fiction Personal views 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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
Fatima Ahdash @fatimaahdash.bsky.social Legal academic (counterterrorism, national security, family regulation, feminist legal theory, human rights). Free 🇵🇸
Nayeli Urquiza Haas @nayeliurquiza.bsky.social Lancaster Law School. Co-I of Wellcome Discovery Award "Between deception and dissent: regulating unproven, disproven, or misleading health-related claims". Interested in STS, sociolegal studies, medicines regulation, gender and vulnerability studies.
James Hand @jamesahand.bsky.social Legal academic (Assoc Prof, and an Assoc Head (R&I), at University of Portsmouth School of Law) https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/james-hand;
Co-Editor of the Int Jrnl of Discrimination and the Law (Sage) https://journals.sagepub.com/home/JDI
Amanda Perry-Kessaris @aperrykessaris.bsky.social FAcSS FDRS SFHEA. Professor of Law, University of Kent. Design-based + sociolegal approaches to economic life of law. https://amandaperrykessaris.org/
Diamond Ashiagbor @diamondashiagbor.bsky.social professor of law, University of Birmingham | labour, EU, equality, race & colonialism | editor, European Law Open | FAcSS | fixed-term member, Matrix Chambers | trustee, Black Cultural Archives
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7533-8853
Annika Newnham @annikabrandberg.bsky.social Tant och tönt. Associate Prof in Law at Uni Reading. Lives by the sea. Listens to the Archers, despairs at Politics, loves long country walks with husband and dog. If you have to resort to "F*ck off bitch!" you probably lost the argument a few bleets ago.
Elena Caruso @elenacaruso.bsky.social I am a socio-legal researcher working on reproductive justice, social movements, and history. Based at Bristol Law School. https://elenacaruso.co.uk
Juan Auz @juanauz.bsky.social Political Ecology of Global Law 🌱🌹⚖️| TransLitigate Project at Tilburg Law School | Latin American enthusiast ❤️🔥
Dr Ruth Brittle @ruthbrittle.bsky.social Law Lecturer | Uni of Leicester |researching children’s rights, family law, refugee & asylum law | Teaching family, immigration, and tort | from Norn Iron | Love dogs, skiing, reading & films.
Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social Professor | Law, Humanities, Human Rights ✨
Professional Gay🦩
Books:
📕 The Emotions of LGBT Rights and Reforms
📕 Queer Judgments
📕 The Queer Outside in Law
📕 Feeling Queer Jurisprudence
Links: https://linktr.ee/senthorun
(He/Him)
Stacey A. Tovino, JD, PhD @staceytovino.bsky.social John B. Turner LLM Program Chair in Law / University of Oklahoma College of Law / Health Law / Privacy Law / Torts
Richard Clements @riclements.bsky.social Assistant prof at Tilburg writing about international law, expertise and compositional form but also the odd poem, essay, story. https://linktr.ee/richard.clements 
Alison Young @scotinoz.bsky.social Art, architecture, cities, Japan, street art, cats, literature, film. And food.
Academic.
Views are my own.
Daanika Kamal @daanika.bsky.social Lecturer in Law, Royal Holloway University of London. Writes on VAWG in criminal law / family law & South Asian feminisms
New book: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/domestic-violence-in-pakistan-9780198953449
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.
lucindasoon @lucindasoon.bsky.social Lawyer, psychologist, socio-legal academic. Amateur photographer the rest of the time. All photos I post are my own. London based.
#EastCoastKin #ClassicMono #UrbanGaze #Architecture #Scape
Alt 📷 @lsoon.bsky.social (just my photos)
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
Lisa Webley @lisawebley.bsky.social Professor of Legal Education and Research, Head of CEPLER, Birmingham Law School, Uni of Birmingham, Assoc. Snr Fellow IALS. Family & public lawyer, legal profession, legal ethics, access to justice. Ballet lover. Views my own.
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.
𝕂𝕒𝕞𝕒𝕝 𝕄𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕝𝕚-𝔸𝕝𝕚𝕪𝕖𝕧 🎓 @makili-aliyev.com Associate Professor of International Law (Human Rights) at University of Gothenburg | Affiliated Scholar @rwinst.bsky.social | Horological addict | Bayat dynasty | My own views, not institutional. @makili-aliyev.com / www.makili-aliyev.com
Joanne Stagg @hashtagstagg.bsky.social she/her
Aussie legal academic who loves queer, feminist and critical theory. At any given time, I have too many pets and need to work more in my garden. I try to be kind, but sometimes the snarkiness wins.
Opinions my own and not my employer's.
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.'
Doron Dorfman @dorfmandoron.bsky.social Professor @setonhalllaw.bsky.social. Torts, Healthcare Law, Disability Law, Employment Law, Family Law, and Empirical Legal Studies. My scholarship: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2440349
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- A Andrea Maria Pelliconi @ampelliconi.bsky.social Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Human Rights Law & Global Justice at the University of Southampton, researching on demographic engineering & int'L | ICON-S IG on Climate Change & Migration | 🌱plant-based, mostly pasta & coffee
Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social Associate Professor in water law, focusing on water justice & river rights.
Member, Birrarung Council, voice of the living river.
Settler on Wurundjeri Woi-Wurrung Country.
Views are my own.
https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/525453-erin-o'donnell
Laura Graham @lauragraham86.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in Law at Northumbria University. Research sex work, human rights, regulation of sex, bodily autonomy, and feminisms. Trustee of National Ugly Mugs. Editor in Chief of International Journal of Gender, Sexuality and Law
Philippa Duell-Piening @duellpiening.bsky.social Socio-legal researcher. Refugee, disability and data subject rights. From 🇦🇺 living in 🇮🇪
Book: https://shorturl.at/Bfllj
Currently researching the impact of AI on disability rights at @uniofgalwaycdlp.bsky.social
Julian Webb @julianinoz.bsky.social Law prof at UniMelb; lawyers/legal ethics, digital tech/reg, civil justice, empirical research. HREC Chair, Grampians Health. Recovering legal education geek.Trainee lavender grower, 💙art and books. Dja Dja Wurrung country #firstgen
Maddy Millar @maddymillar.bsky.social PhD student @ UniofExeter 🎓 | Research Associate @ LancasterUni | Researching jury decision-making ⚖️ | she/her
Amanda Hill @amandaaphill.bsky.social PhD student @cardiffJOMEC. Research about the Court of Protection: Family experiences, media representations and use of social media
Core team member of openjusticecourtofprotection.org
Jo Hunt @penarthjo.bsky.social Prof at Cardiff University School of Law and Politics. Current Leverhulme Major Fellowship Award recipient working on 'Trade and the Territorial Constitution' https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/huntj
@jwangmann.bsky.social @jwangmann.bsky.social Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, UTS. Legal responses to domestic and family violence. Feminist. All views expressed are my own.
Marc @marcmas.bsky.social Not sure how I'm using this yet. Interested in things related to being:
Humanistic counselor, trainee gestalt psychotherapist and group psychotherapist. Buddhist. Leftist. Academic (psychology/law). Queer. Hoping to find more beauty/joy here...
Liam sunner should paint his minis @iamshirtacus.bsky.social Senior Lecturer
@qubschooloflaw. Even less serious than ever. Usual disclaimers. Still Mjölnir worthy.
Janine Geddis @janinegeddis.bsky.social Dog-loving, tree-hugging INFP book nerd. Interdisciplinary researcher doing a PhD investigating moral injury, mental health, and human rights at Queen's University Belfast.
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 
Naomi Creutzfeldt @n-creutzfeldt.bsky.social Professor of Law and Society at the University of Kent. Access to justice, vulnerability, marginalised groups, ADR, digitalisation & AI in civil and admin justice systems.
Jess Mant @jessmant.bsky.social Senior Lecturer/ARC DECRA Fellow, Monash University. Writing on A2J, courts, legal professions, family law. Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Justice Innovation. JLS editorial board/blog editor.
Jonathan Kahn @jkahn01.bsky.social Professor of Law and Biology. Northeastern University. Author of “The Uses of Diversity: How Race has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology” https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-uses-of-diversity/9780231220132/
Karen Franklin, PhD @karenfranklin.bsky.social Forensic psychologist, San Francisco Bay. Former journalist + criminal investigator. #PsychLaw
www.karenfranklin.com
Gregg D Caruso @greggdcaruso.bsky.social Philosopher and Director of the Patrick J. Waide Center for Applied Ethics at Fairfield University | Free Will, Moral Responsibility, Punishment, Phil of Law, Phil Mind, Applied Ethics, Social-Political, Neurolaw, etc.
Dr. Felicia Kornbluh @vtfeminist.bsky.social Historian; Gender Studies scholar; Book & article writer - Repro, Gender, Politics, American Jewish stuff
Li Chen多伦多大学陈利 @lchen2024.bsky.social JD/PhD, UToronto historian of post-1500 Chinese law/politics/culture/intl relations; law & empire & postcolonial studies. Author of "Chinese Law in Imperial Eyes: Sovereignty, Justice, and Transcultural Politics”.
Alex Batesmith @batesmith.bsky.social Associate Prof, School of Law, University of Leeds. Teach/research legal professions, cause lawyers, (international) criminal law, transitional justice. Often focusing on Cambodia & Myanmar. Ex-UN prosecutor, barrister. 
Ed Kirton-Darling @ekd.bsky.social Academic lawyer at the University of Bristol, interested in lots, including inquests & death, social welfare, housing/homelessness, planning, administrative and constitutional law. Firm believer in nuance and context.
Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social move with care • fan of balcony gardens and parks • socio-legal researcher on migration, law, religion, anti-gender movements • multilingual, mixed-methods • personal acct and I cite my sources • often MTL
they (EN) // iel (FR)
www.rinevieth.com