Important event taking place this Thursday on Judicial Review, the Rule of Law and International Human Rights Registration here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/environmen...

A wrap up what happened this week as culture, history and archaeology took centre stage at the Dalradian gold mine inquiry in Omagh. A priest told the PAC he believes the Pope “would be totally opposed to the destruction of a sacred place” to mine gold

An important argument from @sineadmercier.bsky.social about the ways in which the "Ireland should have nuclear" discourse is a classic case of structured climate delayism www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Wonderful to present at the annual @lawucc.bsky.social Law and the Environment conf again this year alongside @sineadmercier.bsky.social @orlakelleher.bsky.social & Alessandra Accogli @dublincityuni.bsky.social. 🙏🙏 to @owenmcintyre.bsky.social & @lawucc.bsky.social for hosting this important forum.

Over 4,000 people have signed a petition urging the Planning Appeals Commission to livestream the public inquiry into an application to mine gold and other metals in Co Tyrone. Campaigners say the public inquiry is anything but public and have 2 more asks.. open.substack.com/pub/theearth...

My first outing with the @irishtimes.com looking at how the reconvened inquiry into Sperrin Mountains gold-mining proposal looks to decide 17-year battle. It also got a mention in today’s podcast 👇 www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

"The central issue is straightforward. Data centre demand is so large, spatially concentrated, inflexible and growing so quickly, that neither the electricity grid nor renewable generation can keep pace. Fossil gas is filling that gap." www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

V'cenza Cirefice's new piece on extractivism, militarism and greenwashing: www.rundale.org/2026/03/31/w...

We are still collecting signatures to the open letter to Micheál Martin on maintaining the Triple Lock. It’s open to sign for academics (including PhD researchers) & university workers across the island of Ireland and those living and working overseas. forms.gle/ZWEJAt1wh2XN...

📣Book Review Forum: Landscape, Law and Justice - 20 Years (eds. Jones, Strecker, Setten & Mitchell) by Michael Jones, @amandabyer.bsky.social, Benedetta Castiglioni, @sonyacotton.bsky.social, Luca Muscarà, Amy Stecker, Gunhild Setten & Don Mitchell www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣 📣📣 New article by @amandabyer.bsky.social just published in Landscape Research: 'Displacing justice: landscape, law and justice in Caribbean small island states' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @elaj-ucd.bsky.social @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social

Our second project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations to Dr Raphael Ng'etich whose research analysed the impact of carbon credit schemes on the governance of unregistered community land in Northern Kenya! @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social

I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...

Spot on here by @orlakelleher.bsky.social 'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'

“Land is not just property to be bought or sold.” [...] “It is where people build roots, express their culture, establish communities and a sense of belonging.” Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

⚖️ 🌿 Preventing environment harms is fundamental to fulfill the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment. That’s why, for my third report, I developed a framework for Environmental, Social, and Human Rights Impact Assessments.

We're hosting our final project event on 29 Sept. Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us @amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social

Check out the recent episode of the Save Our Sperrins podcast in conversation with Amy Strecker: buttonsoptions4u.podbean.com/e/law-land-a...

Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social

📣 New journal article by @amandabyer.bsky.social just published! 'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025) Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...

"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law. If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act." - Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.

Thanks to @owenmcintyre.bsky.social and @ucc.ie Law for hosting another superb conference on Law and the Environment this year. We were delighted with the opportunity to present a project panel + discuss @property-injustice.bsky.social research with the other delegates. Go raibh maith agaibh go leir

Excited to see our own @amandabyer.bsky.social‬'s book (with over 10 000 downloads) at #slsa2025. Thank you to @slsauk.bsky.social for another excellent and intellectually stimulating array of socio-legal topics. Download Byer's book (open access) at link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

In 2023, and despite lack of government opposition, a Bill to protect Ireland's environment and meet climate goals lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil. Jamie McLoughlin explores this innovative and potentially transformative Bill in more detail: elajucd.com/2025/03/15/a...

Sharing a new book celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Landscape, Law & Justice Research Group edited by Michael Jones, Amy Strecker, Gunhild Setten & Don Mitchell and published in November 2024. Access the book here: doi.org/10.62077/9n5...

EJNI @ejni.bsky.social have published this helpful report on the gold mine application for the Sperrin Mountains (NI) & transboundary consultation with the south: ejni.net/wp-content/u... @antaisce.bsky.social @foeireland.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social @peatlandconserve.bsky.social

Huge congrats to Dr. Raphael Ng'etich who successfully defended his Viva at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social: "The Impact of Carbon Credit Schemes in Conservancies in Northern Kenya on the Governance of Unregistered Community Land". Thanks to Robert Kibugi, Joseph McMahon and @profccostello.bsky.social

'Property' is untenable as the dominant paradigm regulating people-place-environment. What alternatives exist, grounded in the specific conditions of communities? Welcome to the exciting and radical world of landscape research!

Some exciting post this morning. My copy of Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire arrived today from @maxplancklaw.bsky.social - includes my chapter 'A Haunting Absence' on the origins of international energy law in the legal techniques used in the colonial conquest of Ireland.

My book Placing Property has officially reached 10k downloads! This book explains how property is rooted in spatial injustice. Thank you to everyone who downloaded and shared my work! Hopefully this empowers people to think about how to reimagine land law. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Truly a viva to remember! A remarkable thesis from @sonyacotton.bsky.social congrats too to the @property-injustice.bsky.social team

Congratulations to @sonyacotton.bsky.social for passing her PhD Viva with no corrections at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social. Special thanks to the examiners Prof. Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social and Prof. Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social and to the Chair, Prof. Ian O'Donnell

We are over the moon that this is out, featuring chapters from the whole Property[in]Justice team and other brilliant scholars on #Empire, #history and #law. It's open access - so please enjoy! Thank you to @donalcoffey.bsky.social @maxplancklaw.bsky.social and everyone else who worked so hard!

Check out Sinéad Mercier's brilliant chapter on the 'placelessness' of energy law in Ireland!

Check out the amazing work happening with the @property-injustice.bsky.social project, and peep my latest blog post about the gendered roots of climate change:

A must-read for those of us caught within a world clinging to antiquated notions of property, and who imagines an order more beautiful, more just, more grounded in place and communities #climatechange #justice #internationallaw #property #landscape #legalhistory #legalgeography

My monograph, Placing Property, published under the Property [In]Justice Project, is open access and available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @property-injustice.bsky.social

What are the gendered effects of climate change? And what type of knowledge is privileged when discussing its harms? Excellent blog post by Christie Nicoson elajucd.com/2025/03/01/b...

They will reap the rewards of the positive press they received for the initial 'shift to renewables' for years to come. This announcement will be forgotten in a day or two. Criminals bbc.com/news/article...

We are at a historical moment when even institutions of learning are moving towards embracing generative AI, seen as inevitable, progressive, morally neutral. It is none of those things.

Ireland's energy regulator has abdicated all responsibility for setting policy in line with the climate law. If the CRU doesn't take responsibility, then what public body will?

It's time to start asking what (and for whom) law is for when our young are forcibly strapped into a future they are judicially prevented from changing.