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

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📣 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

Building care-full futures requires ways of living that break the norms - "we need to practice these ways of being... not wait for them to appear at the end of the road"🌱Check out a chapter with the amazing @claradf.bsky.social 🐌 in Post-Growth Future(s) ipe.hr/wp-content/u...

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...

"Climate change is a gender issue" writes @cjnicoson.bsky.social. Read more at elajucd.com/2025/03/01/b...

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...

Friends, we are happy to share our CfP for the ESIL pre-conference workshop, which will take place in September in Berlin. This event will mark the official launch of our IG. We would be delighted to see many of you there 🥳 Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL esil-sedi.eu/wp-content/u...

"The proposed mining application in the Sperrin mountains not only has serious implications for human and animal health across our island, but also for the natural and cultural heritage of one of our island’s most precious landscapes." Read EJNI @ejni.bsky.social report at: ejni.net/wp-content/u...

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

This Thursday (10th April) at 6pm in Dublin! Asylum Under Pressure with Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...

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.

Thank you to Otto, Stefan & @donalcoffey.bsky.social & the @property-injustice.bsky.social team. All articles free & available to read open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications...

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

For those of us in the South, we have until 23 April to make submissions against extractivist and ecologically harmful mining applications in the North. NI is not for sale! www.gov.ie/en/consultat...

It's crucial that all of us on this island work together to prevent extractivist, ecologically harmful and neocolonial mining applications in the North: www.rundale.org/2025/03/06/s...

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.

EJNI are hosting an upcoming webinar on Irelands obligation to develop, consult upon, and submit a national Social Climate Plan to the European Commission by June 30 2025. See details below ⬇️