Assistant Professor, #USask College of Law | Legal theory and history | Medical law, ownership and use of bodies and biomaterials | He/him https://linktr.ee/jdmshaw
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A reception for 2SLGBTQQIA+ lawyers and law students in Saskatchewan is being held at the Saskatoon Club on Friday, 6-8 PM. Drinks and appetizers will be served (included in ticket). Come meet your peers in the legal profession, or let those in Saskatchewan know! www.cbapd.org/details_en.a...
This also works at academic conferences
For the evening crowd, my latest for @cba-nationalmag.bsky.social: Courts entitled to weigh in when notwithstanding clause pre-emptively invoked #cdnlaw #cdnpoli #canqueer
These LLMs have read more primary sources than any of us will ever read (assuming they’re printed and scanned). But they’re the equivalent of someone who never takes notes and has no idea where they read it and whether the source was trustworthy.
I wish more aspiring academics really appreciated this aspect, that academia is dialogical. You have to be able to extemporaneously defend your ideas and discuss them in great detail, orally. You have to know it well enough to have it at your fingertips.
Literally describes nobody. Like zero accuracy on the description front.
Important things to consider before we outsource the research and writing process to machine proxies
Does anyone here have any more information about this case like the file number or counsel representing the plaintiff? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
A recent article by @crimhighlights.bsky.social member Tyler King theorizes a new form of discretion in the criminal courts. While it is more theoretical, scholars interested in legal discretion may find it relevant. Free to read/download from @lsijournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1017/lsi....
We are Saskatchewanians now.
From that experience and further training, I am prepared to make a positive and thoughtful contribution to legal education in Saskatchewan and Canada.
In addition to teaching and research, that involved obtaining a postgraduate certificate in higher education teaching (PGCHE) and becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in the UK.
My start at the University of Saskatchewan involves me leaving the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England, where I was a Lecturer in Law since September 2023. I learned a lot from my time in England, and I believe I became a better teacher and scholar as a result.
I will also continue to research laws affecting the use and disposal of dead bodies and bodily materials, with a historical and theoretical focus that enables me to study the nature of law and power relative to the human body, and how law matters to concepts and practices of medicine and health.
As of today, I am officially a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Law at @usask.bsky.social. I am so happy to return home to the Canadian Prairies, and to join such warm colleagues. In 2025/2026, I will be teaching tort law to 1Ls, and jurisprudence to 2Ls and 3Ls, in the Juris Doctor program.
My partner (Connor) and l are moving to Saskatoon (permanently!) for my job at USask. Connor is looking for work in the city of Saskatoon or remote in Canada, starting July 1. He is a communications/marketing specialist, who has worked in such roles since 2017. Does anyone have any leads for him?
Join me and others at the free online event “40 Years of the Surrogacy Arrangements Act: What Next for Surrogacy?” on 16 July at 5.30pm!! Registration via link #surrogacy40 www.progress.org.uk/event/surrog...
Science fiction as legal imaginary is currently £80 cheaper than normal on the evil empires website. Could be a bargain for someone? www.amazon.co.uk/Science-Fict...
My partner (Connor) and l are moving to Saskatoon (permanently!) for my job at USask. Connor is looking for work in the city of Saskatoon or remote in Canada, starting July 1. He is a communications/marketing specialist, who has worked in such roles since 2017. Does anyone have any leads for him?
Obviously I wouldn't dare hope that the law might decline to sex me in my lifetime, but it is reassuring to learn that the sex of my corpse can remain "unascertained"
I am now vice-president (membership) at the Canadian Law and Society Association / L'Association canadienne Droit et Société. Excited to contribute to sociolegal scholarship in Canada in this role!
Received the results of my final PGCHE assessment and with that the PGCHE is done and, within the month I suppose, I will be a FHEA.
I’ve been told the sign to my office has gone up at @usask.bsky.social! 🥲
Come and join us as a journal editor @sshmedicine.bsky.social!
“Meanwhile, according to the COU, Ontario lags behind other provinces in research funding, at $563 per student compared to a Canadian average of $1,165.”
Thanks for posting this. I couldn’t find it yesterday. A really solid message from the President of USask.
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Multitasking once again: I am marking and bed.
I am co-convening a stream on law and process ontology at this year's Critical Legal Conference at Exeter, 4-6 September - submit an abstract to us! here is the CFP: sites.exeter.ac.uk/clc2025/call...
Bank holiday spent marking essays. Solidarity.
Thank you, Swastee!!
Thank you, Claire!
Someone just say immigration is good actually! Higher Education is good actually! Paying higher tax is good actually!
every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease
Prudence was waiting for me to finish a meeting.
I get all the kisses after a bike ride.
Congrats!!
A bit behind but here’s my latest blog on the Hull Legacy Scandal, which reflects on the criminal charges announced earlier this month. In it, I reflect briefly on what the use of the offence of ‘preventing a lawful and decent burial’.
New article from Marett Leiboff and Sean Mulcahy uses theatrical jurisprudence to critique legal judgments on a man's claim to have been discriminated against by being refused entry into the 'Ladies Lounge' art installation in Tasmania: available here: doi.org/10.1080/1752...
Thrilled that my article 'What is (the) Matter with Climate Litigation?' has been published Open Access in JLS: lnkd.in/gYCCiTck I contest several new materialist approaches, and discuss how law conceives of ‘matter’. It is the opening of a larger project on law & nature.
Thank you!
It’s election day in Canada and universities and colleges need your help. Across the country, colleges and universities are facing drastic program cuts, layoffs and campus closures. Don’t forget to vote today – tell the federal government they need to act NOW to save PSE.
As my farewell present, Kent Law School gifted me this cute lapel pin made by a Kent artist. It is a snail for the tort law case, Donoghue v Stevenson [1932]. It’s so precious.
Thank you, Giancarlo!
Welcome!
Thanks, Michael!
For the 2025/2026 academic year, it looks like I will be teaching tort law to the JD students in terms 1 and 2 and jurisprudence to JD and LLM students in term 1. 🙂
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Help. I’m trapped in an endless loop of Microsoft Outlook reactions.
Thank you, Flora!
Thank you, Roojin!
Thank you, Gillian. ☺️
Thank you, Emily!!
We have seen the wreckage in the U.S. with our own eyes. Canadians cannot accept such a revolting Trump-like interference with the independence of our academic institutions. We are proud of our world-leading universities and their research contributions. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
I won’t be there quite yet, sadly! But we’ll find another chance to see each other. :)
Thanks, Irina!
Thank you!
Thanks, Pierre! I hope to see you soon!
Thank you, Tracy. 💜
Thank you!
This July, I join the College of Law at @usask.bsky.social as a tenure-track Assistant Professor. I am exceedingly happy to return home to Canada, and to the Prairies especially, where I will be near to family and join such warm colleagues at the College of Law. law.usask.ca/about/articl...
Last few days to send in your stream proposals for the Critical Legal Conference, 2025! sites.exeter.ac.uk/clc2025/
On behalf of the Board of @slsjournal.bsky.social, many congratulations to our joint winners of the 2024 SLS Editor's Choice Awards: @kirisanter.bsky.social and @joshuashaw.bsky.social, Tyler King, and Liam Kennedy: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... and journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.....
Our prize-winning article in Social and Legal Studies (doi.org/10.1177/0964...) also has companion pieces in: Critical Criminology doi.org/10.1007/s106... Canadian Journal of Law and Society doi.org/10.1017/cls....
The award is for who the Board “deems to have exceptionally represented the journal's commitment to progressive, interdisciplinary and critical socio-legal scholarship. The award is meant to recognise the chosen article's quality, significance and alignment with the journal's mission and ethos.”
Won a prize! The Editorial Board of @slsjournal.bsky.social named an article by Tyler King, Liam Kennedy and I as the joint winner of the 2024 Editors’ Choice Award. Our article is entitled, “Documenting the Document: The Forensic Hospital Report and Its Knowledge Moves”: doi.org/10.1177/0964...
I wonder could we do a series of responses to today’s UKSC decision? @sandraduffy.bsky.social @senthorun.bsky.social or anyone with interest?
The CAUT (the main Canadian association of academic faculty and staff) now advises against non-essential travel to the US
I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel
Why even have a brain, any ideas, any ability to express them, any kind of communication with other people, any desire to solve problems or invent anything, any reason to learn, any use for your eyes or your heart, or any reason to teach or create
I’m in Liverpool!
My first book is out on 27 May with @mitpress.bsky.social. It offers a media history of the power to intercept communications in Britain from the foundation of the Post Office to the (near) present, and the changing relationship between law, sovereignty, and media.
I think it’s fine according to Elections Canada’s website! “Your voting kit includes a postage-paid return envelope. Simply drop the envelope […] into any mailbox or, if you are in Canada, bring it to a Canada Post […] outlet. There is no cost—you do not need to add a stamp.”
Votes from our household are sent. 🇨🇦
The Human Rights Legal Support Centre is seeking candidates for its full time Executive Director position. They are taking applications until May 9th, 2025 at 5pm. More details available on the Centre's website here: hrlsc.on.ca/about-us/car...
Same. As a gay man my touchstone for this is the height of the AIDS crisis in the 1980s. For us, conditions were effectively totalitarian. Almost the entire government and the country were willing--eager--to let us die. And in the midst we forged one of the most inspiring movements in US history.
Prudence hates selfies.
Prudence says the sun agrees with her.
The convenience (and beauty) of living 5 minutes from Canterbury Cathedral’s library.
Is there any evidence that these 'turn around' specialists ever, you know...turn anything around? Because from the outside it sure looks like their business model is 'make a load of people redundant, collect massive salary, leave before everything fully collapses'
Successfully tricked my dog into taking a pill. I would like to take the rest of today off now, thanks.
Consider joining our friends at the new UK-based Legal Humanities Association (LHA)
“I can be of value by saving lives and providing hope to those in need” -- Why can’t this Toronto man be an organ donor? Charter challenge highlights ‘stigmatizing’ rules effectively barring gay and bisexual men, by Jacques Gallant www.thestar.com/news/why-can... via @thestar.com #LGBTQ+
Looking forward to 15 April and discussing my current project with the estimable ensemble Jake Goldenfein, Hélène Frichot and Chris Speed, in Melbourne’s home of critical research - Critical Research Association Melbourne. Come along if you’re in town!
🙌🏻 🙌🏻 I was just ID’d when buying Nozeco.
CfP for our ESIL pre-conference workshop is out! The workshop marks the official launch of our IG and will explore Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL. We would absolutely love to see you there! Applications due April 20. Stay tuned for more information about our keynote...
Excellent!
Very exciting, there is a new learned society in legal studies, the Legal Humanities Association. It's based in the UK but very explicitly international in focus. It aims to foster a community dedicated to cultural understandings of law. legalhumanities.com
Fuck all the way off with this garbage, please and thanks.
It's heartbreaking how much damage the ambiguity of "performance" has done to our understanding of speech acts. The point is: words in context do things (they perform actions) but so often, speaking of a performance makes people think of play acting and pretend--juat going through the motions
The position of the US is that they can send anyone to a concentration camp for life based on the equivalent of that Family Guy racism paint chit, and have no responsibility to get you out even if they admit you're a citizen who has done nothing wrong. This is bone chilling
Full program is accessible here: virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/73983/...
My presentation is part of the Defining, Defying and Desiring Death special topic (it’s the fourth and final panel associated with the topic).
Booked my train to and hotel in Liverpool for the @slsauk.bsky.social! I present on the Wednesday, on 16 April, during the 14:00 to 15:30 session. If you are also there, come hear about my research on body bequests in 18th- and 19th-century England and Ireland.
What terms or themes are crucial to understand our contemporary world? Which authors have are missing from the page?
An exceptionally strong response to a bizarrely irresponsible report open.substack.com/pub/maidinca...
I lecture weekly for 2 hours per 3 hour module (with breaks of course). I based part of my senior HEA fellowship on a discussion of the enduring value of a lecture. Let's not underestimate students too radically. If WE seem not to value lectures, they definitely won't do so. 1