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
👤 Joined on 05 October 2023
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@leader-kate.bsky.socialI know what you are all thinking, yes, we would all love a short thread on the history of the police caution (and why Kate Bevan was irritated by the modern version being used in 1951!). Well it is your lucky day!
Show PostConor Gearty has been gone a little over a year. Which is a strange and profoundly jarring sentence to write. University College Dublin held a beautiful memorial event in March and have assembled and published the papers which were presented to honour and remember him: www.ssrn.com/index.cfm/en...
Show Post"Legal institutions have failed to prevent these atrocities, verifying the critiques developed in the pages of this journal that law without a radical commitment to justice and without politics cannot save us." criticallegalthinking.com/2026/09/17/e...
Show PostThere should be a referendum on that.
Show PostWe also have a new piece of banner art done by @pretendbeard.bsky.social Pay your artists people – you'll appreciate the results
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