Someone needs to start a Heathrow airport restaurant called "Low Expectations" or "Mediocrity" and save us all the false hope.

Come join us at Cambridge as our new Assistant Professor in Private Law! The private law colleagues are absolutely lovely and you'll grow to appreciate the public lawyers (we're an acquired taste 😉)

Details below, deadline is 2 March 2025
www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/jobs/2...

I have read, wrote, experimented, and taught methodology in law/legal studies over 30 years. Here is my take:

1) Tell what you are doing.
2) Explain why you are doing it.
3) Explain how you are doing it.
4) Do it the way you said you would.
5) Avoid big & difficult words in 1-3.

I agree. Some have worried that any move towards limited access to assisted suicide would inevitably lead to expansion under the ECHR.

Well, a number of human rights lawyers, including myself and @anuragdeb.bsky.social think that's a bad argument. See below.

ukhumanrightsblog.com/2024/11/07/n...

Topics under discussion at our project workshop this week at Humboldt University include the place of the ‘unwritten’ in German law; legal populism; the principle of the rule of law; legality; and the legal and political dimensions of unwritten principles.

Guess I'm here now, too.