I like what autocaptioning makes of unjust enrichment: "Unjust in Richmond". Private law theory would have certainly avoided a lot of problems if we'd all agreed that unjust enrichment was a local ordinance that only applied in Richmond.

Panopto has turned every instance of "mesothelioma" in my lecture on causation into "me, so tell your ma". I have never been this sorely tempted to leave the captions uncorrected.

One of the pleasures of working in the India Office Records at the British Library is that you find the most unexpected things in the files. Such as this document - a poem in Hebrew written in commemoration of Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

One analogy is with the legal personality which Hindu idols enjoy at common law, and the manner in which the "will of the idol" used to be ascertained when there were disputes in relation to temples or worship.

Are you tempted to extend our ideal point modelling work on judicial dispositions beyond the UK, Lindsay Stirton?

Congratulations, Dr. Sayer.

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It has been both amusing and instructive to see the sheer number of ways in which Panopto mistranscribes "but for test" - which in today's lecture became, variously, "butter test", "bought for test", "Bot Four test" and (my favourite) "Halibut fortress".

TT Arvind It kept converting "vicarious liability" in amusing ways, I think the best was bioterrorist liability.

Just received this volume in the post, with a chapter by Aisling McMahon and me on contact's role in commodification. It's heartening to see publishers still publishing bilingual French / English books. There are many excellent contributions in both languages in this volume.

Key takeways from Panopto's automatic captioning for my pure economic loss lectures: a. God Denning said that the climate could not recover b. Using cat grease helps the courts reason c. The thought of defeat enables recovery for pure economic loss

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An early paper of mine (ultimately published in OJLS) was initially rejected as 'inherently silly'. Another (ultimately published in Med LR) was initially rejected as 'wholly misconceived'. Peer reviewers can be wrong. Trust your ability and trust your work, ECRs!

Always nice to see one of your edited collections in print. Co-edited with Lindsay Stirton, Daithí Mac Síthigh, and Richard Kirkham, and including a raft of top-notch contributors, we use judicial review's formative moment in the 60s as a lens to re-examine and rethink modern debates.

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