Now on FirstView: An aesthetic approach to intellectual history? Introduction to MIH Forum “Isaiah Berlin and the Aesthetics of Liberalism” by Joshua L. Cherniss and Sarah Collins bit.ly/3BlRaZ6

"No other court in the country has a rigid policy denying physical access to counsel." theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

Queen's Law Professor Lisa Kerr co-writes an op-ed calling for the Supreme Court of Canada to return to letting counsel for interveners appear in person. Read it in the Globe and Mail: tgam.ca/3TTWRmM Lisa Kerr Colleen M. Flood

Cox on Dicta and Uncertainty, buff.ly/ar8yl4J - Courtney M. Cox (Fordham University School of Law) has posted Super-Dicta (173 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1575 (2025)) on SSRN.

“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” said an interim report by IPC food insecurity experts. It's the most dire assessment of the enclave’s deepening hunger crisis since the war began wsj.com/world/middle-e…

Emaciated children and babies are dying from malnutrition in Gaza. We need immediate and unhindered humanitarian access. Without that, mothers and fathers will continue to be powerless to save a starving child from a condition we're able to prevent.👇 unicef.org/press-releases…

A worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in Gaza and immediate action is needed to end fighting and allow unimpeded aid access, a global hunger monitor warned on Tuesday, saying failure to act now would result in widespread death. reuters.com/business/healt…

All this inevitably generates mass malnutrition (the 2nd threshold). Malnutrition is accelerating across Gaza, with evidence Gaza City has breached the famine threshold by now. (2nd image is from N. Gaza data linked in footnote 44 - look at the jump from June to July)

Important 🧵 "Famine declaration is a lagging indicator." Rising malnutrition and food scarcity must trigger immediate action. It is too late for too many, but there is still time to save many lives. All States must act now.

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#Breaking: Doug Ford government's attempt to remove Toronto bike lanes unconstitutional, judge rules trib.al/N6ETXZf

Canada 🇨🇦will recognize the State of Palestine 🇵🇸 at the UN General Assembly in September. Recognition is essential for Palestinian liberation. It is one of the five policy recommendations that >500 academics, lawyers & human rights experts have called on Mark Carney to adopt.🧵

Congratulations to La Trobe Law School’s Julia Dehm on releasing the third set of chapters in Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer. New chapters co-authored with La Trobe Law School’s Prof. Louis de Koker & Dr Emma Henderson are now available via open access: bit.ly/4md6PMd

Ryu & Sewell on Hart and Legal Perspectivalism, buff.ly/O49gJDv - Angelo Ryu (University of Oxford - Saint John's College) & Trenton Sewell (University of Oxford) have posted Legal Perspectivalism and Hartian Orthodoxy (Legal Theory (forthcoming)) on SSRN.

Deborah Hellman, Algorithmic Fairness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) buff.ly/OnlENit

"11,877 children were identified to be suffering from acute malnutrition, the highest monthly figure recorded to date" "2,562 children . suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), of whom 40 were hospitalized" These are just the children 6-59 months old who were screened.

Just arrived: my companion to Cambridge Pragmatism.

If you're a 1L starting law school in coming weeks, just remember: You're *supposed to* feel a bit confused at first. It's normal. Law is like a language. You learn it best through immersion. You'll take a few weeks to get to speed. This may help, too: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

OH MY GOD VICTORIA MBOKO 🔥

‘A deadly scheme’: Palestinians face indiscriminate gunfire at food sites. Investigation based on visual evidence, bullets, medical records and testimony show sustained pattern of Israeli shootings. theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…