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
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Joshua Shaw
@joshuashaw.bsky.social
· Feb 14
A common law power to dissect: a medico-legal history
Abstract. Some jurists claimed there was a common law power to dissect the human body prior to and outside of the Anatomy Act 1832. That power formed part
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My latest article, “A Common Law Power to Dissect: A Medico-Legal History,” is published in the Medical Law Review. I argue that some jurists claimed that dissection was lawful independent of statute. Such a power preceded and was parallel to the Anatomy Act 1832. academic.oup.com/medlaw/artic...
Successfully appealed a library fine! (I had indeed returned the book and it was in the stacks). I deserve a little treat.
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Successfully appealed a library fine! (I had indeed returned the book and it was in the stacks). I deserve a little treat.
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I’ve been promoted to Professor of Law and Social Justice at @lawatleeds.bsky.social Huge thanks to everyone who have supported me throughout my career to make this happen.
There’s far too many people to thank so if you think you helped you probably did. Much love all!
There’s far too many people to thank so if you think you helped you probably did. Much love all!
November 7, 2025 at 8:11 AM
I’ve been promoted to Professor of Law and Social Justice at @lawatleeds.bsky.social Huge thanks to everyone who have supported me throughout my career to make this happen.
There’s far too many people to thank so if you think you helped you probably did. Much love all!
There’s far too many people to thank so if you think you helped you probably did. Much love all!
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We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Law, @usask.ca. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in: (1) law and technology, (2) business (especially corporate law), and (3) Indigenous law and Indigenous legal theory.
usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
Law: Tenure track position
Faculty Member, Law: Tenure Track
The College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan seeks to hire one tenure-track position. The Search Committee ...
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November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Law, @usask.ca. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in: (1) law and technology, (2) business (especially corporate law), and (3) Indigenous law and Indigenous legal theory.
usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Law, @usask.ca. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in: (1) law and technology, (2) business (especially corporate law), and (3) Indigenous law and Indigenous legal theory.
usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
Law: Tenure track position
Faculty Member, Law: Tenure Track
The College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan seeks to hire one tenure-track position. The Search Committee ...
usask.csod.com
November 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
We are hiring a tenure-track assistant professor at the College of Law, @usask.ca. We are especially interested in applicants with expertise in: (1) law and technology, (2) business (especially corporate law), and (3) Indigenous law and Indigenous legal theory.
usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
usask.csod.com/ux/ats/caree....
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From the weekend, my post on the disingenuous, overwrought reaction to Friday's Supreme Court decision on mandatory minimum sentences.
NEW POST: No, the Supreme Court is not an obstacle to tougher laws against child porn emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/no-the-sup...
No, the Supreme Court is not an obstacle to tougher laws against child porn
Yesterday the Supreme Court issued a decision striking down mandatory minimum sentences in the context of possessing or accessing child pornography.
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
From the weekend, my post on the disingenuous, overwrought reaction to Friday's Supreme Court decision on mandatory minimum sentences.
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Book award celebration. My heart feels full.
October 24, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Book award celebration. My heart feels full.
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I am begging news orgs not to uncritically repeat the claim Reagan's remarks were "edited without permission" before you talk to a 1A lawyer, or just follow up with the Foundation to ask what legal theory holds that a public address from a former president is their IP.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
I am begging news orgs not to uncritically repeat the claim Reagan's remarks were "edited without permission" before you talk to a 1A lawyer, or just follow up with the Foundation to ask what legal theory holds that a public address from a former president is their IP.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
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Good, important read (hopefully not by ChatGPT).
macleans.ca/education/ai...
macleans.ca/education/ai...
AI Is Ruining My Education - Macleans.ca
I’m a university student in Ontario, and everyone’s taking shortcuts. Learning has never felt lonelier.
macleans.ca
October 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good, important read (hopefully not by ChatGPT).
macleans.ca/education/ai...
macleans.ca/education/ai...
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I just received my contributor copy of The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy! My chapter is about the personhood of animals/nature/monsters/robots in BotW and ToTK. Read it to find out the names of my beloved (in-game) horses!
October 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I just received my contributor copy of The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy! My chapter is about the personhood of animals/nature/monsters/robots in BotW and ToTK. Read it to find out the names of my beloved (in-game) horses!
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I always thought that eventually one day I would write a book or two, but if you had told undergraduate me that my first book would be about value and be published in a series called "New Directions in Modern Economics" I would have been very skeptical indeed. Anyway, pretty, isn't it?
October 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I always thought that eventually one day I would write a book or two, but if you had told undergraduate me that my first book would be about value and be published in a series called "New Directions in Modern Economics" I would have been very skeptical indeed. Anyway, pretty, isn't it?
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are there any Edmonton graduate students following me who might want to do a couple of days of work in the provincial archives?
October 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
are there any Edmonton graduate students following me who might want to do a couple of days of work in the provincial archives?
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Students in the humanities know what they are in college to learn! To use their human brains!
Here is a great piece that calls for us to reject AI in the classroom ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Here is a great piece that calls for us to reject AI in the classroom ⬇️⬇️⬇️
go, student newspaper of Notre Dame and Saint Mary
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
"employ in-class essays, oral exams+ rigorous discussions — that are far more difficult to use AI tools to complete. a close reading of the text should constitute the bulk in any introductory humanities class."
www.ndsmcobserver.com/article/2025...
Editorial: AI-proof the Core Curriculum
The Core Curriculum is an essential part of a Catholic education that must be saved from AI.
www.ndsmcobserver.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Students in the humanities know what they are in college to learn! To use their human brains!
Here is a great piece that calls for us to reject AI in the classroom ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Here is a great piece that calls for us to reject AI in the classroom ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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Just published in Social Science & Medicine! Led by @sariahmed.bsky.social + @cmorten.bsky.social we interrogate how 'platform thinking' constrains not only pharma companies like J&J but also science more broadly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of ‘Platform Thinking’: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Adenoviral Vector Vaccines
Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…
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October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Just published in Social Science & Medicine! Led by @sariahmed.bsky.social + @cmorten.bsky.social we interrogate how 'platform thinking' constrains not only pharma companies like J&J but also science more broadly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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WRITE YOUR DAMN LONG BOOK
October 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
WRITE YOUR DAMN LONG BOOK
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I'm hiring a Legal Research Fellow!
dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19632
CC @roojinhabibi.org @drximebena.bsky.social @elstorreele.bsky.social @cmorten.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @reshmagar.bsky.social @hollylynchez.bsky.social @akapczynski.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social
dal.peopleadmin.ca/postings/19632
CC @roojinhabibi.org @drximebena.bsky.social @elstorreele.bsky.social @cmorten.bsky.social @gregggonsalves.bsky.social @reshmagar.bsky.social @hollylynchez.bsky.social @akapczynski.bsky.social @fatimahassan.bsky.social
Research Fellow
Working in close collaboration with the Chair in Applied Public Health, the Infectious Disease Innovation Governance (IDIG) Research Fellow will play a leading role in a variety of research and capaci...
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October 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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My annual reminder to students that you want a letter of recommendation from someone that can speak to your work and your work ethic in detail. Get to know your professors before you need a letter, and ask the professors that have commented on your work. Office hours are ideal for this.
October 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
My annual reminder to students that you want a letter of recommendation from someone that can speak to your work and your work ethic in detail. Get to know your professors before you need a letter, and ask the professors that have commented on your work. Office hours are ideal for this.
I ate a Saskatoon berry doughnut.
October 13, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I ate a Saskatoon berry doughnut.
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I fucking love buying books.
October 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
I fucking love buying books.
A reception for 2SLGBTQQIA+ lawyers and law students in Saskatchewan is being held at the Saskatoon Club on Friday, 6-8 PM. Drinks and appetizers will be served (included in ticket). Come meet your peers in the legal profession, or let those in Saskatchewan know!
www.cbapd.org/details_en.a...
www.cbapd.org/details_en.a...
The Canadian Bar Association : SAGDA & University of Saskatchewan College of Law Start of Season Reception
We look forward to your participation - register today!
www.cbapd.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A reception for 2SLGBTQQIA+ lawyers and law students in Saskatchewan is being held at the Saskatoon Club on Friday, 6-8 PM. Drinks and appetizers will be served (included in ticket). Come meet your peers in the legal profession, or let those in Saskatchewan know!
www.cbapd.org/details_en.a...
www.cbapd.org/details_en.a...
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This also works at academic conferences
This is Jack. He shocked everyone with an unhinged scream before he launched into a race… and then won. 14/10 (TT: paigephills)
August 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
This also works at academic conferences
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For the evening crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Courts entitled to weigh in when notwithstanding clause pre-emptively invoked #cdnlaw #cdnpoli #canqueer
Courts entitled to weigh in when notwithstanding clause pre-emptively invoked
Saskatchewan Court of Appeal says nothing in the Charter suggests legislatures have the last or only word on whether legislation limits rights
nationalmagazine.ca
August 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
For the evening crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Courts entitled to weigh in when notwithstanding clause pre-emptively invoked #cdnlaw #cdnpoli #canqueer
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These LLMs have read more primary sources than any of us will ever read (assuming they’re printed and scanned). But they’re the equivalent of someone who never takes notes and has no idea where they read it and whether the source was trustworthy.
August 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
These LLMs have read more primary sources than any of us will ever read (assuming they’re printed and scanned). But they’re the equivalent of someone who never takes notes and has no idea where they read it and whether the source was trustworthy.
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I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.
At PhD/post-PhD level, academia is fundamentally dialogical and unless you intend to hide behind a prompt your whole life, you are going to look like a fool when you open your mouth and don't have a working understanding of the things you profess to write about.
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 AM
I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.
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Literally describes nobody. Like zero accuracy on the description front.
Literally making up a guy to get mad at
July 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Literally describes nobody. Like zero accuracy on the description front.
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Important things to consider before we outsource the research and writing process to machine proxies
July 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Important things to consider before we outsource the research and writing process to machine proxies