(thanks to Colin Levy)I write this post with a heavy heart as Peter Lederer died from a heart attack yesterday. Peter was my best friend and, in the nicest way possible, my consigliere. When faced with a decision that seemed beyond
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Griffith University Blogs
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Monitoring the R-citizen in the time of Coronavirus
(thanks to Scientific American)I have put a new paper up on SSRN. It is co-authored with Dr Monique Lewis and will appear in an edited collection later this year published by Routledge. The abstract reads as follows:The COVID pandemic has
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Requiem for Reza
REZA BANAKARI just heard that my friend and colleague, Reza Banakar, died from kidney cancer. He was Professor of Sociology of Law at Lund University. Before that we were colleagues at the University of Westminster. I greatly valued his collegiality
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How I Miss London…
This is Queensbridge Road in Hackney, London and inside the building you see is my flat. Its refurbishment has just been completed and the flat’s photos are up on the architects’ website. I love it. It is even more minimalist than
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Slow Professions and Fast Change: Law's Response to Covid-19
The last time I encountered Rene Thom’s Catastrophe Theory was when I was writing my PhD thesis on law firms. I wanted to show how law firm mergers were an all or nothing occurrence in that you couldn’t have a
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LawTech and the Legal Profession and Academy
LawTech and the Legal Profession and Academy
Law, Technology and Humans encourages scholarship that reflects on how technology is changing law, regulation and normative conduct and also how law, regulation and normative conduct effects local and global challenges and opportunities
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Globalisation, Law, and Lawyers in a Time of Crisis
I have put a new paper on SSRN which is the introduction to a new book called The Global Lawyer by Kate Galloway, Melissa Castan, and me. It is due out from LexisNexis in December. I would appreciate any feedback.
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Time for Legal Sandboxes
I was struck reading a blog post by Crispin Passmore (late of the SRA and LSB), Utah turns US reform party into a carnival. The Utah Bar and Supreme Court thoroughly investigated ways of increasing access to justice through
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Why Law Firms Must Change How They Work (or do they?)
The Financial Times has published an article with this title (£). It’s a bit of a strange piece, and a number of the commenters agree.The gist of the piece is that unless big law firms change their ways of working–long hours,
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Blockchain and Standards: is it impossible?
Adrian McCullagh and I have put up a new paper on SSRN, titled, Blockchain’s Future: Can the Decentralised Blockchain Community Succeed in Creating Standards? The abstract reads: Nakamoto proposed a new solution to transact value via the internet. And
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