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Ireland’s first ever appearance in the Cricket World Cup ends in a nailbiting draw: over-by-over report from the BBC. Being TV-deprived, I listened to it on the radio. It went right to the last ball, even when it looked like we’d have another ‘brave loss by the plucky Irish’ or something similar.
Update: video [...]

As mentioned on the blog, and emailed to applicants, the preliminary programme for the grand Law and Society extravaganza in Berlin this summer (about) has been published. The conference is the annual meeting/conference of the Law and Society Association, but also involves a range of others, including the Socio-Legal Studies Association (I’m a [...]

Anthony Cummins at the Guardian books blog wonders whether acknowledgements (in novels, in particular) go too far. Do they?
On academic thank-yous, I’ve always liked this one from the “World’s Greatest Law Review Article” parody:
(this is the first footnote)
*Professor of Law, University of Arkansas at Little Rock. I would like to thank Lawrence Tribe, [...]

The long-awaited decision of the Supreme Court of Canada on election result embargos has just been handed down. R v Bryan is the case.
Brief background: Canada being a big place, it stretches across 5 and a half timezones. (The half is Newfoundland; that’s what you get when you allow people from Waterford to [...]