What Katy Did

Suing inanimate objects

The ancient law of deodands

Nov 30 • Katy Barnett

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Hammered

Academic life and feeling flat

Nov 18 • Katy Barnett

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October 2025

Inducing people’s employers to fire them should be a civil wrong

A repost of a Quillette article I wrote seven years ago: more relevant than ever

Oct 15 • Katy Barnett

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September 2025

[REPOST] Lecturer’s duty of care

Representing all students

Sep 24 • Katy Barnett

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August 2025

AI, law and learning

Thoughts on a recent case from the UK

Aug 14 • Katy Barnett

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July 2025

Looking under the rock of institutional confidentiality

Sometimes the rock can hide dreadful problems

Jul 31 • Katy Barnett

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Going to America

My recent visit to the United States

Jul 17 • Katy Barnett

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June 2025

Beware of the delicious moral treat of righteous indignation

Thoughts on the limits of peaceful protest

Jun 6 • Katy Barnett

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May 2025

In praise of books

More on how academic incentives have gone awry

May 6 • Katy Barnett

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April 2025

Social proof and getting things wrong

Thoughts on belief and the importance of accepting error

Apr 6 • Katy Barnett

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March 2025

Private law blues

The succession problem (again)

Mar 29 • Katy Barnett

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Bad men do what good men dream

Thoughts on the Gaiman controversy

Mar 19 • Katy Barnett

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