Michael Doherty
@dohertylawteach.bsky.social
Professor of Legal Design. Associate Head, Lancaster University Law School. Editor-in-Chief, Legal Design Journal.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
I don't think enough people talk about how great BBC Bitesize is. Secondary school textbooks are now vanishingly rare and Bitesize content is (a) not in a terrible app, (b) engaging and interesting and easy to understand, and importantly (c) FREE. A properly great digital public good.
October 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I don't think enough people talk about how great BBC Bitesize is. Secondary school textbooks are now vanishingly rare and Bitesize content is (a) not in a terrible app, (b) engaging and interesting and easy to understand, and importantly (c) FREE. A properly great digital public good.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
One reason China has to be optimistic about their century defining strategic competition with the United States is that they're the only side in it not actively trying to lose.
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
www.thecrimson.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:48 PM
One reason China has to be optimistic about their century defining strategic competition with the United States is that they're the only side in it not actively trying to lose.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
For the love of God do it to save this child if for no other reason
Amazing sign being held by a small child
October 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
For the love of God do it to save this child if for no other reason
Reposted by Michael Doherty
A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
October 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A bleak dystopia where Sharia law predominates, while economic and cultural divisions mean that the different communities live parallel, segregated lives.
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
Oh, wait, that’s Dubai …
Reposted by Michael Doherty
Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.
October 16, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
That is not to say that at all
Frequency in a place is not the same as cumulative
If this is the level of legal analysis, discussion and definition, we are in serious trouble
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Frequency in a place is not the same as cumulative
If this is the level of legal analysis, discussion and definition, we are in serious trouble
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
October 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
That is not to say that at all
Frequency in a place is not the same as cumulative
If this is the level of legal analysis, discussion and definition, we are in serious trouble
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Frequency in a place is not the same as cumulative
If this is the level of legal analysis, discussion and definition, we are in serious trouble
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Michael Doherty
OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 PM
OpenAI’s strategy is very clear, it’s trying to get people - especially young people - so reliant on its products intellectually & emotionally (& now sexually!) that going without them becomes unthinkable. And they need signs of that strategy working to keep the funding flowing in
Reposted by Michael Doherty
Grok has been fed a diet of raw Policy Exchange papers for days and now doesn't feel too great....
October 14, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Grok has been fed a diet of raw Policy Exchange papers for days and now doesn't feel too great....
Reposted by Michael Doherty
Did the authors of the papers you're feeding into the data stealing machine consent to you giving away their intellectual property? 🙁
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Did the authors of the papers you're feeding into the data stealing machine consent to you giving away their intellectual property? 🙁
Reposted by Michael Doherty
2025 remake of Castaway: Tom Hanks' character makes no attempt to get back to civilization
September 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
2025 remake of Castaway: Tom Hanks' character makes no attempt to get back to civilization
Reposted by Michael Doherty
unconscionable
A 6-year-old immigrant child is handcuffed with hands behind their back and arrested.
Trump’s America.
Trump’s America.
October 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
unconscionable
Reposted by Michael Doherty
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
October 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
“The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?”
Treasure magazine, 1964
Official answers coming soon
(Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)
Reposted by Michael Doherty
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Legal Theory Blog
Discover our latest articles and updates. Stay informed with recent posts that cover a variety of topics you care about!
legaltheoryblog.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
A letter from @crwerren.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social and me on the plans to allow cumulatively disruptive protests to be regulated by the police
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Anti-protest proposals put free speech at risk | Letters
Letters: Readers respond to the proposal to give police further powers to curb ‘cumulative’ protests, in response to actions by the proscribed group Palestine Action
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A letter from @crwerren.bsky.social @suzmd.bsky.social @storiesfromjack.bsky.social and me on the plans to allow cumulatively disruptive protests to be regulated by the police
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Reposted by Michael Doherty
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:20 AM
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?
How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 AM
feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*
Reposted by Michael Doherty
I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.
October 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
The conflation between pro-Palestine/anti-genocide protests and the attack on the Manchester synagogue is disgusting, dangerous, and deeply cynical.
October 5, 2025 at 4:33 PM
The conflation between pro-Palestine/anti-genocide protests and the attack on the Manchester synagogue is disgusting, dangerous, and deeply cynical.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
Reposted by Michael Doherty
Remembering Cissy Houston on her birthday. I love this version of JJ Cale's Cajun Moon that she recorded with Herbie Mann
youtu.be/t8Cm1HzqatQ
youtu.be/t8Cm1HzqatQ
Cajun Moon (feat. Cissy Houston)
YouTube video by Herbie Mann - Topic
youtu.be
September 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Remembering Cissy Houston on her birthday. I love this version of JJ Cale's Cajun Moon that she recorded with Herbie Mann
youtu.be/t8Cm1HzqatQ
youtu.be/t8Cm1HzqatQ
Reposted by Michael Doherty
This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
Reposted by Michael Doherty
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
Reposted by Michael Doherty
Damn, he's good, and right.
September 16, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Damn, he's good, and right.