Matthew Dyson

Academic loves: Tort, Crime, Comparative Legal History; Oxford; Notre Dame Law, London. Likes views, only gives own. paused as of Feb 2025, on other place.

[Matthew Dyson @1mattdyson]

It's finally here! Available at book shops, online, and as part of Cambridge Core: Explanations for things you didn't know you didn't know about tort and crime! Here with the earlier 2 books https://t.co/QP9yozMovS

[Dr Elena Cooper @drelena_cooper]

What is life worth? How does law - tort rules & legal system - attribute financial value to loss of life, in a national tragedy? Fab new @law_humanities arts review coming soon by Prof Matt Dyson @OxfordLawFac @1mattdyson re film ‘Worth’ now on @netflix : https://t.co/zSRAEC4FN1

[Museum of Looted Antiquities @MuseumofLoot]

To honor the passing of Colin Renfrew I'm revisiting some of his important work on the illicit antiquities trade over the years.

A thread...

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

New data on farms and inheritance tax: a third of farm estates over £1.5m aren’t farmers but wealthy people avoiding IHT by sinking money into farmland.

The Budget hits farmers too hard and tax avoiders too lightly. It needs to change.

[Florian Louis @flr_louis]

Dirk Heirbaut - Redefining Codification

A Comparative History of Civil, Commercial, and Procedural Codes

À paraître en janvier aux Oxford UP

[European Society for Comparative Legal History @esclh]

REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, "Back to the Past and Building the Future" (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024) https://t.co/2WeKfeYjEh

[Selden's Sister @SeldensSister]

We are absolutely overjoyed to invite you to the inaugural Selden's Sister annual lecture, to be given by none other than the legend that is the Rt Hon Baroness Hale of Richmond.

The 200-year struggle for mothers’ rights
Liverpool, 14 Nov, 3pm, hybrid, free
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[The Guardian @guardian]

Maggie Smith, Oscar-winning star of stage and screen, dies aged 89 https://t.co/PtqrPpC4EB

[Matthew Dyson @1mattdyson]

@EquityzDarling @wadhamoxford Congrats!

[Jon Klein @jonkleinx]

@ABC RIP James Earl Jones 🙏💔

[Fesshole🧻 @fesshole]

Teenagers and 20 somethings who roll your eyes when your dad makes the same shit jokes repeatedly. He's doing it because you once laughed at those jokes, you've just forgotten, and he's not sure how to make you laugh any more.

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

Another day, another internet full of accounts professing shock and dismay at our two-tier, totalitarian state in which you can’t even engage in a little bit of racist arson-y violent disorder without the old bill sticking their noses in.

Some truth to throw in the mix:

[Matthew Dyson @1mattdyson]

@Kent_NewmanWGTN Aren't you a sweetie! But isn't it your bedtime, if so, tartar for now.

[Matthew Dyson @1mattdyson]

@Kent_NewmanWGTN I hope that's decision doesn't come back to bite you.

[Matthew Dyson @1mattdyson]

@Scott_Wortley Am not commenting on a specific case. English crim law (Barnes) prob focuses on consent to the sport's rules, plus as reasonable penumbra as is in practice used. Tort is hazier, but probably similar outlines. So qu starts w/ rules being published and reasonably followed, I think.

[Matthew Dyson @1mattdyson]

@cowan_lisacowan @CentreLegalHist Well done! And against strong competition I am sure. Great to know there's yet more strength in Edinburgh legal history!

[Matthew Dyson @1mattdyson]

@PhillipDJMorgan @UniOfYork Congratulations!!

[Irish Legal History @IrLegalHist]

We are delighted to have awarded the 2024 Sir Anthony Hart Doctoral Paper Prize to Ms Rhiannon Ogden-Jones The prize was awarded for the best paper by a student at the British Legal History Conference
https://t.co/ulbsJIBJxT

[Eliot @softleftlabour]

Actually, its only a Portillo Moment if it comes from the Portilleux region in France otherwise its just sparkling seat loss

[Jimbo @jimbexperience]

This might just be the best Q&A the @guardian magazine have ever done 😂