Academic selfie in green

Academic selfie in green

Academic selfie. Today a man with a baby accosted me in a car park to tell me how good I looked. Not a bad way to start the day. Other shots: trousers and shoes, the full effect in a grainy mirror.

Academic selfie: Doctor Who adjacent weekend wear. Frock coat, waistcoat and trousers by me.

Blue velvet frock coat is very nearly finished! #sewing

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: the law of blockade is back, baby! @drnajimagi.bsky.social, Phillip Drew, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & I unpack the law of naval blockade, the Strait of Hormuz, Venezuela, and one key question: can two closeds make an open? soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

I can confidently say this will be both the most interesting and the most enjoyable way to get an accurate legal description of these issues.

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: the law of blockade is back, baby! @drnajimagi.bsky.social, Phillip Drew, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & I unpack the law of naval blockade, the Strait of Hormuz, Venezuela, and one key question: can two closeds make an open? soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Somali pirates are back in business www.bbc.com/news/article...

Academic selfie: Doctor Who adjacent weekend wear! Just in from the pub in the brown velvet frock coat and season 17 waistcoat I sewed myself. Also pictured: the corduroy trousers I made (didn’t make the shoes …)

I’m giving a talk! I’ll look at how small states have used ITLOS and ICJ proceedings to recast climate change as a matter of legal obligation, & ask if that can work in a fragmenting legal order. 📅 Tue 26 May, 12:30–1:30pm AEDT 📍 Seminar Room 1.04, Coombs Ext, ANU regnet.anu.edu.au/event/legal-...

CfP: Popular International Law 🗓 22 July | 📍Melbourne 📝 abstracts due 15 May How does international law live beyond courts and treaties -online, in culture, in everyday politics? Opening panel: Vanishing Point project “Collectible College of International Lawyers” drive.google.com/file/d/13XfO...

This is not wrong.

Important piece by my friends at @justsecurity.org.

I offered to revise and update the finding aid to the Papers of Sir William Flood Webb KBE Kt for the Australian War Memorial and it is now 'live'! This is the sole place where you can see the hundreds of pages draft opinion that he never submitted to the IMTFE in 1948 www.awm.gov.au/collection/a...

Academic selfie. As I said in a meeting today: I’m not hard to find. There aren’t many Guilfoyles in the university directory and I’m the only one on campus dressed as if they’re about to be asked to solve a murder in an Agatha Christie movie.

When I went to the CES back in the Jurassic Period, I told my caseworker that - among other things - I wanted to be a writer. She got me an interview with a theatre company who were looking for a writer. This would sound like a fairy tale to anyone working for Workforce Australia today.

Academic selfie. As I said in a meeting today: I’m not hard to find. There aren’t many Guilfoyles in the university directory and I’m the only one on campus dressed as if they’re about to be asked to solve a murder in an Agatha Christie movie.

Attention maritime affairs types! The Call for Papers for a conference that the Sea Power Centre is running with the Australian Naval Institute in Sydney on 19 and 20 November is out: To Fight and Win at Sea: 125 Years of Australian Naval History seapower.navy.gov.au/publications...

My latest article is out. It argues that sea control has been reimagined in recent years, driven by a dramatic change in the value that states place upon the seas. This in turn is impacting navies across the globe. 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Academic selfie: with jacket and trousers that I sewed myself. #sewing

I just did a really good parallel park in one go. I should probably give up on the week now. Nothing‘s going to top that.

I organised this episode because I'm horrified at how casually states are going about targeted killing. I also made an Archer gif for it

I’ve nearly completed my blue velvet frock coat with green silk lining. Just a bit (quite a bit) of finishing left to do. #sewing

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: assassination in international law. Tamsin Paige, Douglas Guilfoyle, Alonso Gurmendi & Emma Lush unpack drone strikes, target lists. Has killing individuals has become the “new black” in statecraft? And what does the law actually say? soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

My blue velvet frock coat with olive silk lining is beginning to come together. Once the matching sleeves, collar, and fronting is on the net result may look a little … pirate-y. #sewing

My piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the arrest & charging of Ben Roberts-Smith for 5 #warCrimes of murder. An incredibly significant legal development in #Australia, but also in the general global fight against impunity for international crimes. #intLaw #IHL opiniojuris.org/2026/04/15/a...

My blue velvet frock coat with olive silk lining is beginning to come together. Once the matching sleeves, collar, and fronting is on the net result may look a little … pirate-y. #sewing

Academic selfie

The rise of anti-democratic anti-protest laws in Australia has been chilling. Finally, one such law has been found unconstitutional. Hopefully, more such cases will follow, upholding Australia’s (anaemic) implied constitutional guarantee for political communication. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

The thing about AI replacing analysts that I think is implicit to a lot of people who understand AI, but not at all clear to the people doing layoffs is this: adversaries use AI for automation and as a force multiplier too. Humans are the deciding difference in who wins, beyond equal automation.

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

If you have a problem and think: “I know, I will use blockchain” then two things are true: 1) you don’t understand your problem; and 2) you don’t understand blockchain. (I can’t recall who said it, but it was via comp.risks)

<stern auntie voice> ANGUS JAMES TAYLOR. I dare you to need medical care in my department, where the 'self-serving immigrants' you speak of will still give you excellent care. Because they're PROFESSIONALS. 🤨 www.sbs.com.au/news/article...

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

Academic selfies: yesterday, today. Finally, autumn!

According to international law and *checks notes* the US Supreme Court - if you declare a blockade you acknowledge that the other side are lawful belligerents and that you are engaged in a war: The Prize Cases (67 U.S. 635). www.bbc.com/news/live/cn...

So I decided to do the lining first for my next project, so I don’t get frustrated and rush it towards the end. Downside: I’m now looking at this gorgeous olive green silk and thinking it should be the jacket, not the lining! #sewing

So I decided to do the lining first for my next project, so I don’t get frustrated and rush it towards the end. Downside: I’m now looking at this gorgeous olive green silk and thinking it should be the jacket, not the lining! #sewing

New #CalledToTheBar: What does it take to prosecute the “crime of crimes” in real time? @drnajimagi.bsky.social is joined by Mykola Yurlov (Ukrainian MFA) and Mark Ellis (IBA) to unpack the proposed Special Tribunal for Aggression against Ukraine. 🎧 Listen now: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

I find cutting fabric at day’s end soothing. Photos don’t do this vintage raw olive silk justice. Got five metres of it for next to nothing at a de-stash market. Cutting it feels decadent. It’s going to be the lining of a long blue velvet coat - which will be amazing & hard to wear anywhere. #sewing

Academic selfie: I would like more four day weekends

Easter long weekend. Finished these trousers and made this waistcoat. The waistcoat has a lovely herringbone texture and broad windowpane check that’s easier to see in close up. The waistcoat is made entirely from recycled material from a craft destash market and scraps from other projects. #sewing

Academic selfie: dinner with friends (but only selfie-ing with @djag2.bsky.social) edition

Easter long weekend. Finished these trousers and made this waistcoat. The waistcoat has a lovely herringbone texture and broad windowpane check that’s easier to see in close up. The waistcoat is made entirely from recycled material from a craft destash market and scraps from other projects. #sewing

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: foreign military bases, empire, and international law. Ntina Tzouvala speaks with Zora Ahmed & Nasia Hadjigeorgiou on SOFAs, post-colonial bases, the Chagos opinion, and what these spaces reveal about sovereignty, power, and war. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: foreign military bases, empire, and international law. Ntina Tzouvala speaks with Zora Ahmed & Nasia Hadjigeorgiou on SOFAs, post-colonial bases, the Chagos opinion, and what these spaces reveal about sovereignty, power, and war. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Academic selfie: another cold Canberra autumn morning followed by a hot afternoon. Guess which I dressed for? I made the jacket and trousers pictured, the tie is vintage, the waistcoat was made by my local seamstress, and boots by Justin Reess. #sewing

This law is a straightforward case of apartheid. Apartheid is an international crime. Every legislator who voted for it, every military police office who prosecutes a crime under it, every judicial officer who applies it, is committing an international crime. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

France is rewriting its war playbook using lessons from Ukraine and the Middle East, the French air force's deputy chief told @politico.eu Both conflicts are shaping imminent decisions on what weapons Paris will develop, buy and deploy. www.politico.eu/article/how-...