I feel Oscar Wilde might have something to say about losing so many prime ministers so quickly …

Academic selfie: so many compliments at work today on my home-made green velvet frock coat! One of my earlier sewing pieces from a year ago where I did not have the skill to execute my ambition. Recently, I redid the lapels & collar as best I could. The result has a lived in air I quite like #sewing

No. The Barbary States were not engaged in piracy. They conducted state sanctioned commerce raiding that was, at the time, legal. Those who didn’t like it called them “pirates”. For most of history “pirate” has been a rhetorical term of condemnation, not one of legal art.

Question: were the Barbary States engaged in piracy?

Academic selfie: so many compliments at work today on my home-made green velvet frock coat! One of my earlier sewing pieces from a year ago where I did not have the skill to execute my ambition. Recently, I redid the lapels & collar as best I could. The result has a lived in air I quite like #sewing

New #CalledToTheBar! @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social speaks with labour law expert Tonia Novitz about the ICJ’s new advisory opinion on the right to strike, the history of the International Labour Organization, & what the decision means for workers, employers and int'l law soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Academic selfies: today, the first outing of my new self-made brown suede waistcoat; yesterday, in the outfit that a number of my colleagues charmingly informed me was their current favourite.

Academic selfies: today, the first outing of my new self-made brown suede waistcoat; yesterday, in the outfit that a number of my colleagues charmingly informed me was their current favourite.

A real privilege to receive a signed copy from the author in the post this week! Well done @francesanggadi.bsky.social !

Academic selfie. Did I say in a meeting today: “well, I am very intimidating. My outfits of tweed and corduroy strike fear into the heart of evildoers everywhere … No, wait, that’s Batman.” Yes, yes I did.

Academic selfie. Did I say in a meeting today: “well, I am very intimidating. My outfits of tweed and corduroy strike fear into the heart of evildoers everywhere … No, wait, that’s Batman.” Yes, yes I did.

Academic selfie: it’s just another day for you and me in Doctor Who adjacent office wear … (yes, I made the trousers)

Good morning from Battersea Park, where I just saw a man cycling on a rented bike, wearing full morning suit and top hat, listening to music on his earphones, and drinking a cocktail out of an M&S can. Tuesday morning in London.😂❤️🤷‍♀️

Sanam and Sophie have just guest-edited an amazing special issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal focused on abolition in international criminal law. It's worth a read if anyone is interested in their work.

New episode of #CalledToTheBar, International Law Over Drinks: Tamsin Philippa Page talks with Sanam Amin and Sophie Rigney about abolition and international criminal law - what it means to move beyond punishment toward care, accountability, and structural change. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Academic selfie: what a week! I think I look happier wearing the scarf?

Academic selfie. Me at work today in my home-made blue velvet frock coat. It got at least three compliments from colleagues!

Academic selfie: a wet day in Canberra – the only answer is tweed, tweed, tweed.

Sea drone comes to rescue after US helicopter downed near Strait of Hormuz www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

In an age of climate change & growing geopolitical competition, Australia must strengthen disaster resilience at home & prepare for HADR abroad. Join us for a timely conversation on how evidence, expertise & policy can better prepare Australia and the region. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/resilient-...

Academic selfie: at work today in the check waistcoat and trousers I made for myself out of vintage wool and fabric I bought at the Canberra women’s circle charity de-stash market a few months ago.

What do you call a big reptile that gets someone else to bite you? a deligator

Tankers “going dark“ to cross the Strait of Hormuz www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Yesterday’s academic selfie (today, home with a cold *achoo*)

In Canberra and work in national security? Come join us for the 3rd World in Transition event "Disaster Resilience at Home and Abroad", feat. Prof Jason Sharples in conversation with Mitch King, chaired by Sarah Ison. Shine Dome, Thursday, June 25 • 5:30PM-8PM www.eventbrite.com.au/e/resilient-...

Is your workplace training dull? Come do it with us and play board games instead!

Once again playing Maritime Domain Awareness: The Boardgame in maritime security and law of the sea training

Academic selfie: a long week, looking forward to the long weekend

Academic selfies: yesterday and today. Which do we prefer?

Academic selfie: a privilege to talk at ANU RegNet today about legal statecraft and climate justice, hosted by my former PhD student Daiana and with my current PhD student Ignacio in the audience.

New #CalledToTheBar: international law in domestic courts! @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social speaks with Michael Kirby & @cward-int-law.bsky.social about dualism, international crimes, human rights, and why international law increasingly matters before national courts. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Academic selfie in green

Academic selfie: windowpane checks, what you gonna do about it?

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

Genuinely so excited to share this call for papers for the expert meeting “Choosing the Bench? Selection and Standards in International Adjudication”, which I’m co-organising with my dear colleagues @kyrawigard.bsky.social and David Donat Cattin on 9 September! www.uu.nl/en/news/call...

Every now and then #sewing is a bit like a heist movie. Having backed yourself into a corner, you set yourself a task no one sensible would attempt, and come up with an increasingly elaborate series of hacks to try to make it work. The only thing missing is the fun of putting a team together …

Every now and then #sewing is a bit like a heist movie. Having backed yourself into a corner, you set yourself a task no one sensible would attempt, and come up with an increasingly elaborate series of hacks to try to make it work. The only thing missing is the fun of putting a team together …

This week I’ve gotten to the gym twice before work, seen my acupuncturist on a rest day, and today I got up at dawn for Pilates. So why exactly am I this gosh darn tired on a Thursday evening?

Academic selfie: the bowtie is back!

Really looking forward to giving this talk! Please come if you can!

Academic selfie: a young today praised my fun, quirky waistcoat (self-made waistcoat and jacket inspired by Tom Baker’s look in S17 Doctor Who)

Join @djag2.bsky.social as he explores how small states use international law to mobilise legitimacy and reshape the normative environment, and asks whether these strategies can retain force in a fragmented world. Learn more: regnet.anu.edu.au/event/legal-...

Academic selfie I forgot to post on Monday.

New #CalledToTheBar: Why are states rushing to intervene before the International Court of Justice? @drnajimagi.bsky.social is joined by Beatrice Bonafè & Matina Papadaki to unpack what is suddenly, unexpectedly, one of the hottest topics in international adjudication soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Latest Foreign Desk on Monocle Radio considers Mark Carney's proposition that this might be the age of the middle powers. With @olgatokariuk.bsky.social, Steven Borowiec at @asia.nikkei.com and @angelaskujins.bsky.social. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Being attacked by the Prime Minster should not be this fun. Cripes Albanese, at least get some facts. (Or at least read your own Budget Papers!)

What a terrific discussion - thank you to everyone who joined us. (Even if I was lit like a Bond villain for much of it ...)

Underway in a little under an hour! Join us if you can!

Pleased that this will soon be in print. Armed Conflict and International Law in the Indo-Pacific Region explores under-addressed issues in the region in the event of large scale armed conflict. Delighted to have edited this volume with Jennifer Maddocks. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

For those outside the region, a "pikelet" is a sort of small pancake that is typically eaten cold, with butter, and without any sort of joy.