Adrian Hunt
@ahuntlaw.bsky.social
Law, Politics: academic, emigrant/immigrant. Views my own.
Whoever decided to require you to press a key to ‘post’ a comment when reviewing a word doc needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
November 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Whoever decided to require you to press a key to ‘post’ a comment when reviewing a word doc needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
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Now available: 'The Character of International Law' edited by Emma Breeze, Mark Drumbl, Gerry Simpson and Marianne Wade
Celebrates the character, life, work, and influence of Professor Rob Cryer ➡️ https://bit.ly/46ZiacE
#InternationalLaw #CriminalLaw
Celebrates the character, life, work, and influence of Professor Rob Cryer ➡️ https://bit.ly/46ZiacE
#InternationalLaw #CriminalLaw
October 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Now available: 'The Character of International Law' edited by Emma Breeze, Mark Drumbl, Gerry Simpson and Marianne Wade
Celebrates the character, life, work, and influence of Professor Rob Cryer ➡️ https://bit.ly/46ZiacE
#InternationalLaw #CriminalLaw
Celebrates the character, life, work, and influence of Professor Rob Cryer ➡️ https://bit.ly/46ZiacE
#InternationalLaw #CriminalLaw
September 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Excellent from @davidallengreen.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/917c...
The coming battle between social media and the state
Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength
www.ft.com
January 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Excellent from @davidallengreen.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/917c...
Prepare for lots of people suddenly to have strong opinions about sentencing practices in France.
December 19, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Prepare for lots of people suddenly to have strong opinions about sentencing practices in France.
The Guardian view on 10 Downing Street: Labour risks losing the plot | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on 10 Downing Street: Labour risks losing the plot | Editorial
Editorial: Rows over donations and the role of Sue Gray have exposed a disturbing lack of grip in Keir Starmer’s government
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2024 at 7:22 PM
The Guardian view on 10 Downing Street: Labour risks losing the plot | Editorial www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #8,744,975!
September 17, 2024 at 2:02 AM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #8,744,975!
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Nice to see the Constitution Unit on bsky!
Hello world! We are the Constitution Unit, a research centre based in the UCL Department of Political Science, covering parliament, government, democracy, elections and more!
Please do spread the word that we are here and sign up to attend out next free, online event on Friday 👇
Please do spread the word that we are here and sign up to attend out next free, online event on Friday 👇
Prospects for the House of Commons Modernisation Committee
An expert panel discusses the new House of Commons Modernisation Committee.
www.ucl.ac.uk
September 10, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Nice to see the Constitution Unit on bsky!
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Vestager savours her victories today over Big Tech ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
September 10, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Vestager savours her victories today over Big Tech ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
September 6, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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🧵Thomas v Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: EAT upholds ET decision that a belief in English nationalism which included forcible deportation of Muslims was not protected.
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eat/2024/141
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eat/2024/141
S Thomas v Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust & Anor -
Find case law
- The National Archives
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk
September 5, 2024 at 8:58 PM
🧵Thomas v Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust: EAT upholds ET decision that a belief in English nationalism which included forcible deportation of Muslims was not protected.
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eat/2024/141
caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/eat/2024/141
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New post just out:
How can the new government make the public sector more effective with little money?
A guest post from @danhonig.bsky.social on the lessons for Labour from his fascinating research across the globe on this question.
(free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...
How can the new government make the public sector more effective with little money?
A guest post from @danhonig.bsky.social on the lessons for Labour from his fascinating research across the globe on this question.
(free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...
How Labour can fix the public sector
Figuring out how to let the workforce do their job
open.substack.com
September 5, 2024 at 7:25 AM
New post just out:
How can the new government make the public sector more effective with little money?
A guest post from @danhonig.bsky.social on the lessons for Labour from his fascinating research across the globe on this question.
(free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...
How can the new government make the public sector more effective with little money?
A guest post from @danhonig.bsky.social on the lessons for Labour from his fascinating research across the globe on this question.
(free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/h...
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If you ever feel useless, please know that I am teaching French Constitutional Law this term
September 5, 2024 at 4:24 PM
If you ever feel useless, please know that I am teaching French Constitutional Law this term
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If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going? blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going?
For research communications professionals and academics, X can feel a little like being the band on the Titanic, defiantly playing on as the once great ship slides under the water. As a number of a…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 5, 2024 at 12:52 PM
If ‘academic X’ is sinking, where are research organisations going? blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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In a shameless attempt to grow my following on here, I'm going to be giving away a GE2024 poster to one lucky winner who retweets this post (and is following) in 24 hours time. Best of luck!
September 4, 2024 at 12:55 PM
In a shameless attempt to grow my following on here, I'm going to be giving away a GE2024 poster to one lucky winner who retweets this post (and is following) in 24 hours time. Best of luck!
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Musk's X announced it would feed Twitter users' content to train their Grok AI model.
This was illegal under EU law.
The DPC took them to court. X said that it would fight the DPC.
Today it folded.
Just in case you wondered how these things go.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
This was illegal under EU law.
The DPC took them to court. X said that it would fight the DPC.
Today it folded.
Just in case you wondered how these things go.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
High Court dispute between X and data regulator is resolved
Issue centered on use of personal data to train AI systems
www.irishtimes.com
September 4, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Musk's X announced it would feed Twitter users' content to train their Grok AI model.
This was illegal under EU law.
The DPC took them to court. X said that it would fight the DPC.
Today it folded.
Just in case you wondered how these things go.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
This was illegal under EU law.
The DPC took them to court. X said that it would fight the DPC.
Today it folded.
Just in case you wondered how these things go.
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Labour ministers responding to Tory critiques with 'I'm not going to take any lectures from you about x, y, z, because you did a, b, c,' is wearing thin now. The source and substance of a critique are not same. Yet they consistently fail to address the latter. The public deserves better.
September 4, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Labour ministers responding to Tory critiques with 'I'm not going to take any lectures from you about x, y, z, because you did a, b, c,' is wearing thin now. The source and substance of a critique are not same. Yet they consistently fail to address the latter. The public deserves better.
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Our blog with Inga Thiemann discussing M.A. and others v. France & the End Demand / Nordic model of sex work regulation is out now. We critique how the Court applied consensus and procedural review in this case to reach its finding of no violation. strasbourgobservers.com/2024/09/03/m...
M.A. and others v. France: The ‘End Demand’ model of Regulating Sex Work goes to Strasbourg - Strasbourg Observers
by Dr Dimitrios Kagiaros and Dr Inga Thiemann In M.A. and others v. France, the Court’s fifth section was called to decide on a particularly controversial issue: whether France’s 2016 law, which crimi...
strasbourgobservers.com
September 3, 2024 at 1:57 PM
Our blog with Inga Thiemann discussing M.A. and others v. France & the End Demand / Nordic model of sex work regulation is out now. We critique how the Court applied consensus and procedural review in this case to reach its finding of no violation. strasbourgobservers.com/2024/09/03/m...
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To commemorate the start of the legal year in Northern Ireland this week, a post about why we have such awkward judicial review titles compared to England and Wales and what we can learn from this history.
One for my fellow admin law nerds everywhere 🤓
One for my fellow admin law nerds everywhere 🤓
September 3, 2024 at 4:07 PM
To commemorate the start of the legal year in Northern Ireland this week, a post about why we have such awkward judicial review titles compared to England and Wales and what we can learn from this history.
One for my fellow admin law nerds everywhere 🤓
One for my fellow admin law nerds everywhere 🤓
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Things to look out for in today's Scottish Govt Programme for Govt: will they be introducing a Scottish Human Rights Bill as promised; and will there be any announcement on law officer reform?
September 4, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Things to look out for in today's Scottish Govt Programme for Govt: will they be introducing a Scottish Human Rights Bill as promised; and will there be any announcement on law officer reform?