A few weeks ago, I began curating a starter pack of queer scholars/activists. It’s grown so quickly and it’s been fabulous to engage with many different people doing queer work. Please join and follow our curious, joyous, reflective, and passionate community. 🌈🎓 go.bsky.app/Ke4Ctey

Alternative Law Journal cerebrates 50 years as Australia's leading law reform journal. We publish critical scholarly articles on law, social justice, human rights, critique of the legal system, innovative & alternative practice & community legal education #Auslaw journals.sagepub.com/home/alj

Another excellent post by @edzitron.com. Having just taught a course on Legal Analytics and AI, I saw that (a) students believe that gen AI is some form of AGI - and don't know its content blindness; and (b) are using this tech extensively and shamelessly- largely because of (a). A 🧵

Calling all PhD students working on law, environment and non-human animals: Centre Marc Bloch & the Law and Society Institute @ Humboldt Uni are partnering with the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies for a Winter School in Berlin in March 2025. Applications are due 20 December!

"For the trans youth we speak to, social media sites can be healthy and life-giving spaces – and they ought to be kept available." theconversation.com/trans-youth-...

I saw a thread by in Archaeology that pulled together all Starter Packs into one handy thread for new people joining. Not sure if it's been done for Law yet, so thought I'd get a thread going with a few that I've come across. Please do share & add any other Starter Packs that I've missed.

1/4 Last week, the team at the Responders Lab came to deliver a guest session to my undergraduate family law students. In the session, the facilitators provided a supportive, encouraging and open space for students to reflect on their own understandings and awareness of family violence.

A new starter pack for all things and people in the sport for development sector - please let me or @kyliebates.bsky.social know if you’d like to be added to the list or if we are missing connections who should be added too go.bsky.app/5pmzqzk

The Queer Judgments Project has just joined Bluesky. We are a group of scholars, lawyers, activists, and creatives interested in re-imagining and re-creating judgments from queer and other critical perspectives. Consider joining us! And please share with your networks! www.queerjudgments.org

📢 Calling all discrimination and equality law academics, practitioners and policy-makers! Felt like we should get in on the starter pack action too, so I had a first crack at our list. Please share widely, and comment below if you’d like to be added or have any suggestions 😊 go.bsky.app/8Gw18QV

Monash Law is having an impact in enhancing Australian democracy. The Explanatory Memorandum for the federal government's new Truth in Political Advertising legislation cites both me and Yee-Fui Ng www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Looking for #LawSky friends from Australia? Here is the Starter Pack for #AusLaw Academics. More added daily 😁 Please do share! go.bsky.app/A9tXyKu

Here is a brief background to @austlii.edu.au. AustLII provides a comprehensive integrated collection of Australian legal information, enabling effective free and anonymous access to law for the community. It contains over 1,000 databases of full-text primary and secondary legal materials. AustLII:

Important advice on making any law reform submission 👇

Again, totally not sure if I'm doing this right! Here's a starter pack of Australian and Kiwi sport researchers - shout out below if you would like me to add you or others to the list as they start to pop up here go.bsky.app/5sv3gYP

Pretty special week to be in Aotearoa and witnessing this historic hīkoi to protect Te Tiriti o Waitangi. The most peaceful, uplifting and beautiful protest I’ve ever been a part of - and more than 30,000 strong!

📢 Calling all private lawyers! I’ve had a go at creating a private law starter pack, since public law and international law already got a head start on us (and we are nothing if not competitive). Please spread the word, and comment below if you’d like to be added! 👇 go.bsky.app/7uEm2J4

Do you teach law in Australia? Looking for a free resource incorporating climate consciousness in your curriculum? Look no further! www.latrobe.edu.au/library/open...

I started another Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/Ni4YGqv

Having worked on these reforms in 2019-2020, I agree w @fionapatten.bsky.social that many of the arguments against reform are "bullshit". Crucial we support these laws &: - The legal test is lowered - The protection extends to intersex, sex work, & homeless folks. www.theage.com.au/politics/vic...

The ALRC have made it to the good place! Give them some love - @auslawreform.bsky.social 🤳

You know Bluesky has officially made it when @austlii.edu.au walks in the building 😎

V lucky to be spending a whole week visiting my happy place - Wellington 😍

Sorry but how ridiculously good is it to be able to see posts chronologically again? 🥲

📢 Calling all discrimination and equality law academics, practitioners and policy-makers! Felt like we should get in on the starter pack action too, so I had a first crack at our list. Please share widely, and comment below if you’d like to be added or have any suggestions 😊 go.bsky.app/8Gw18QV

Shout out to legal academics in Australia: I’ve started a Starter Pack, let me know if you would like to be added or removed. Your suggestions most welcome go.bsky.app/A9tXyKu

You can now follow L&SJ members who are here on Bluesky with this handy starter pack! go.bsky.app/F1hFvdR

📢 Calling all private lawyers! I’ve had a go at creating a private law starter pack, since public law and international law already got a head start on us (and we are nothing if not competitive). Please spread the word, and comment below if you’d like to be added! 👇 go.bsky.app/7uEm2J4

I've created a Legal History starter pack as I don't think anyone else has and it seems like the type of thing we should have. I'm sure I missed people (apologies!), so hit me up if I have: go.bsky.app/XJxJpA

Academia runs on contacting other academics out of the blue and saying HEY do you wanna do this COOL THING for essentially NO REWARD and equally certainly NO RECOGNITION from your employer and those people going OH MAN that sounds AWESOME sign me up for the COOL NO REWARD NO RECOGNITION EXPERIENCE.

a little something I made. please do share and suggest additions go.bsky.app/9t1scYa

A very warm welcome to all the new folk on Bluesky. In case you are looking for some of the lawyers who used to post on Angry Bird, here is a short list of legal commentators that I enjoy reading. go.bsky.app/4XCaLVx

Michael Lane and I as co-convenors of the SLS Public Law section are organising a workshop for Public Law PGR and ECRs that will be taking place in Feb 2025. Might be of interest @conunitucl.bsky.social @hansardsociety.bsky.social @slsauk.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @ukcla.bsky.social

Not quite, but I started this list bsky.app/profile/did:...

📢 Legal educators assemble! I feel that there must be more of us here now - please spread the word & I'll add people if they comment below 👇 I'm including PLE, outreach, widening access to the profession, & anything else Legal Ed-adjacent 👍 go.bsky.app/3FfXAS6

Hello current and possible friends! I’ve had a go at creating a “starter pack” of queer scholar activist types who I know (so forgive all the omissions). It’s a small and growing list. Let’s build a fab and fun queer scholarly-activist community! 🌈✨ go.bsky.app/Ke4Ctey

Has anyone made a legal academic starter pack yet? Surely we need one…

It’s been a year since I quit The Bad Place, but I’ve desperately missed the sense of community we used to have there - law/academic crew and queer folk alike. Joining The Good Place today and seeing so many old friends and colleagues who have migrated across has brought me such joy. Are we back? 🥲