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  @anthony link to the interview?

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  @bricksilk an excellent introduction! Welcome to Mastodon!

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  @marxmedia I hope that more legal academics, practitioners, journalists and commentators from other countries will also maintain a presence here at Mastadon. We can all learn from each others’ experiences.

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  @rozenberg it’s very gratifying to hear Ms Rose will be taking action. Criticisms of her professional conduct were very unfair

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  @whatshisays this is a welcomed development

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  @davidallengreen I wonder if it would make organising the points easier if they were thematically linked, instead of doing dedicated commentaries or sections on individual Bills. Just a thought, many ways to write such a piece, of course. Looking forward to reading it!

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  @mmasnick Yes, I don’t think “fighting fire with fire” is a reasonable excuse for contravening the platform’s policy. But I guess this is a new era at Twitter where policies don’t matter.

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  @decodingtrolls I wonder what the advocates for this proposal would consider to be the outcome of such an action, assuming it succeeds? Does it render null and void all past actions taken by the Russian state at the UN?

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  @decodingtrolls (I preface this by saying that I’m not all caught up on this specific issue, and am merely raising hypothetical questions proponents of this theory have to grapple with.) So I’m not specifically thinking of consequences flowing from a UNGA decision, but from more general sources of law like the UN Charter or other treaties, customary law, and general principles. For example, if one is raising the doubts as to the legal capacity and/or authority of a supposed successor state (whic...

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  @austinkocher I really doubt that these campaigns are led by overwhelmingly ethical considerations.

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  @QasimRashid@mastodon.social More people need to understand this. Unfortunately, in some circles, rabid (political) factionalism and ideology completely dominates reasoned thinking.

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  @BrentToderian @lloydalter @conradhackett As with all figures concerning averages, we should not forget that this doesn’t reflect whether the distribution of all this newly acquired “space” is even across demographics. Those who have the resources will always be able to get more space to keep more things. Sadly, those who do not aren’t as fortunate.

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  @CarveHerName The late Dame Rose Heilbron QC was and remains a great inspiration to all law students and lawyers.

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  This column piece by Jeneé Osterheldt is worth reading, and then re-reading. Though I’m not American, I can’t help but feel this statement rings especially through generally, regardless of which country, society, community, etc. one comes from and/or now lives in: “A just nation does not thrive on violence that teaches us to hate.” Read here: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/01/29/metro/black-cops-killed-tyre-nichols-systemic-racism-is-death-us-all/