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Choosing an Inn of Court can be difficult. Each inn is a community with a range of things to recommend it.
Key amongst them are the animals on the badge of each inn.
I have rated them scientifically to help you make your choice. 🧵
I feel like Bagehot wouldn’t have had the phrase ‘Combined Court Centre’ down as part of the dignified constitution.
I’m left wondering if your jurisprudence is a product of nature or nurture.
71% positivist btw which is like @scottjshapiro levels of positivism
Teaching Jurisprudence at Cambridge for the very first time tomorrow! Cannot wait to get the students started on HLA Hart - and move beyond.
If you want a flavour of what that’s like, here is a quiz I built last year with Claude.
jurisprudence-quiz.netlify.a…
Don’t leave legal biographies lying round the house.
Eldest just marched in to complain about youngest pinching his toy car with the words “there is no answer to this action for conversion and the damages must be enormous.”
It’s definitely one of those little legal ironies that Mrs Gillick lent her name to the competence she opposed in the case.
Below is the letter she wrote to the local health authority:
Well worth a re-listen if you missed it!
Can the law truly understand religion? Should bishops sit in the House of Lords? Why is marriage law reform necessary?
It was a pleasure to discuss these and other questions on Beyond Belief. It is repeated on Sunday at 6.05am and is on BBC Sounds: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0032h…




















