Karl Marx was born on this day 206 years ago. He is the subject of much myth-making and distortion, by those who have supposedly read him and those who haven't. Coming this fall, an accessible philosophical introduction:
amazon.com/Marx-Routledge…

May I just check in on my American friends?

Programme for Easter Term! #cltdg #legaltheory #cambridgelaw

Ok gang - if you were to write one of A Very Short Introductions, what would it be on?

One for the library

If reading a book about something means endorsing it, I’m screwed

unable to stop imagining the comedy film about the green young extremist conscientiously trying to do terrorism under the guidance of an Oxford University Press Very Short Introduction

My name is Claude
and when I swim
I sparkle bright
and splay my fins
But if my Mum
begins to speak
I flare at her!
And puff my cheeks

J'ai enfin pu ouvrir ce monument de la littérature contemporaine. Je ne suis pas déçu.

When Kant’s 300th birthday and eel day practically coincide, it’s time to be filled with admiration and awe at the moray eel within us.

Pet dislike: historians making some oversimplified generalisation about contemporary politics and then signing off, 'historian here', etc. The self-regarding appeal to their own authority. Embarrassing to serious historians.

For more details, please subscribe to our mailing list using an institutional e-mail: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscrib…

#cltdg #legaltheory #cambridgelaw

In a bit less than a week’s time (9/05, 17:30), our first meeting of the term, please join us for a discussion on a paper by Jorge Fabra Zamora (@UBSchoolofLaw), 'The Legality of Sports and Leagues Reconcidered'. The comments will be provided by Anna Peters.

Very much looking forward to presenting an early stage paper on Nietzsche, Finnis and Exclusive Legal Positivism in June. Its online so all are welcome - there will be a paper circulated in advance. Bristol Law School @BristolUni