Malcolm Thorburn

Associate Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Criminal law, policing, punishment, privatization, public law theory.

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

@Avis I have taken to twitter because you don’t reply phone calls or emails. Please deal with this situation ASAP.

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

@Avis I have been waiting a year for compensation. You rented me a car that broke down and then, instead of compensating me, you charged me for towing. And after a year, more than twenty calls, hours on hold, and dozens of emails, I’ve never received a reply. #avis

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

@Avis I have been waiting a year for compensation. You rented me a car that broke down and then, instead of compensating me, you charged me for towing. And after a year, more than twenty calls, hours on hold, and dozens of emails, I’ve never received a reply. #avis

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

@Avis I have been waiting a year for compensation. You rented me a car that broke down and then, instead of compensating me, you charged me for towing. And after a year, more than twenty calls, hours on hold, and dozens of emails, I’ve never received a reply. #avis

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

Goodbye twitter. Hello Bluesky!

[Don Van Natta Jr. @DVNJr]

The greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time.

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

It was a lot of fun to think about the enormous utilitarian influence on criminal justice over several centuries. Thanks, Guillaume, for the invitation to contribute!

[Guillaume Tusseau @GTusseau]

Very proud to announce the publication of the Research Handbook on Law and Utilitarianism I have had the pleasure to edit : https://t.co/TiJ07H7Q63

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

@MeganPfiffer @coleenlisa @UofTLaw Huge congratulations, Megan!

[Paul F Scott @PaulFScott]

Lecturer in Legal Theory and the Philosophy of Law https://t.co/znIFERSmoS

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

@MPICSL What a terrific event this was! Terrific use of philosophy, psychology, legal history, political theory, and comparative law to cast new and helpful light on persistent questions about criminal negligence. And such a fun group!

[MPI-CSL, Freiburg @MPICSL]

Thanks to all participants @ the @MPICSL workshop „Criminalising Carelessness? Comparative & Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Criminal Liability for Inadvertent Negligence“ organized by Dr.Dr. Philipp-Alexander Hirsch & Johannes Stefan Weigel. Hope everyone had a safe trip home!

https://t.co/6GniRQg1tq

https://t.co/0DLdltiYWc

#research #criminalisation #mpicsl @maxplanckpress

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Q: What specific legislation will you commit to to make child care affordable?

Trump: Well, I would do that and we're sitting down, you know, I was, somebody, we had Marco Rubio and my daughter, Ivanka… But I think when you talk about the kind of numbers that I'm talking about that because the child care is, child care couldn't, you know, there's something you have to have it in this country, you have to have it... I want to stay with child care… So we'll take care of it. Thank you

[François Tanguay-Renaud @FTanguayRenaud]

Osgoode Hall Law School (@OsgoodeNews) in Toronto is currently advertising three academic positions (one Chair in Corporate Governance and two assistant and/or associate professors in Indigenous Law, Property Law and/or Health Law).

https://t.co/7QE0vSEaum

[John Tasioulas @JTasioulas]

Great news that David Owens, currently at KCL, has been elected to the Sekyra and White's Professorship of Moral Philosophy at Oxford. A fantastic appointment on both the moral and the legal philosophy fronts.

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

Allan was a thoughtful, erudite, witty, irreverent, kind, and irrepressibly *vital* man. It is a cliché, I know, but he truly was one of a kind. I enjoyed every minute I ever spent with him. I miss him.

[Rachel Barkow @RachelBarkow]

One takeaway from the presidential immunity case is that character matters more than ever before in choosing someone for that job. There aren't many checks other than the person's own internal moral compass.

[Jennifer Keesmaat @jen_keesmaat]

Traffic congestion in Toronto is hitting some kind of peak. Anyone who gets in a car to go anywhere in the core knows at this point the journey will be insufferable. Cars crawl along city streets, slower than walking - when they move at all.

What if there is a simple policy fix - a miracle of sorts...that can make this problem go away?

A thread:

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

@Lzucca Congratulations, Lorenzo!

[Malcolm Thorburn @ThorburnB]

@achehtman1 @lasilorg Congratulations, Alejandro!

[Max Planck Law @maxplancklaw]

One of the Institutes in the Max Planck Law network—@MPICSL—is accepting applications for a Barbara Huber Scholarship from exceptional academic researchers abroad. Opportunities are available in Criminology, Public Law, and Criminal Law. https://t.co/tuOmuoP39f

[Oxford JDG @oxfordjdg]

Do not miss this important conference of "The Collective: Women in Legal Philosophy", happening in June here in Oxford!

More info: https://t.co/bB6k9DadTC