Seriously people come (online unless you are near Cambridge) listen to me talk about how we can read international law as stories this Friday. It'll be midnight when I'm giving the talk so y'all have no excuses

Comrades, if you want to read about CLS at a more accessible price, the good people at @edinburghup.bsky.social have released my book The Rise and Fall of Critical Legal Studies in paperback - edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-ris...

"Ending the housing crisis requires attacking one of the foundations of neoliberal capitalism: the idea that we are all little, budding capitalists just waiting for the opportunity to invest in financial markets." graceblakeley.substack.com/p/building-m...

THE MEME IS REAL

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cass Sunstein. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars has reopened its Academy - this is a week-long, intensive, online training for a selected 16 grad students. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/14/c...

Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism. The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

The Fair Work Commission’s decision to increase the minimum wage from $24.10 to $24.94 an hour could have the unintended consequence of providing workers with the necessary money to buy food and water, business leaders have cautioned.

The problems in our society are not caused by migrants or refugees. They are caused by an economic system rigged in favour of corporations and billionaires. If the government wanted to improve people’s lives, it would tax the rich and build an economy that works for us all.

@osmanfaruqi.bsky.social - what TV show did you “recommend” at the cancelling culture talk on Friday?

Thoroughly enjoying Bill Shorten’s live sighs and eye-rolls.

Karl Marx was right.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Want to talk about tax? Ok here's a starting point Let's go. All things on the table.

On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28

If someone on an income better than 80% of Australians is unable to save for a median-priced house, then something is very, very wrong. But that's exactly the situation we're in. @grogsgamut.bsky.social column is a sobering read for anyone trying to buy a home. #auspol

Part of capitalism's necessary viciousness is that it is a system that it is simultaneously a system that happens behind the backs of its participants, but creates social forms which continualy attributes conscious responsibility to those same participants.

Next month, UNSW Law and UNSW Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law will be hosting a book launch for Queer Judgments. It will take place in person on Tuesday 15th April at 4pm. Please share and join us if you’re around! Register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/queer-judg... #LawSky #AcademicSky 🌈🎓

Why capitalism and democracy don’t mix… Me on @oxfamgb.bsky.social Equals Podcast

Folks from across the LPE landscape are coming together to create an LPE Association (democratic, membership-based, dues-paying), which will launch at the first ever NATIONAL LPE CONFERENCE!! Save the date Sept 11-13!! law.richmond.edu/faculty/Inau...

If you missed tonight’s town hall with @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and @keeanga.bsky.social on resisting the shock and awe politics of the far right and their billionaire enthusiasts, you can watch the video here:

Today, Jedediah Britton-Purdy reflects on the relationship between the rule of law, democracy, and constitutionalism.

Corporate Coup in Global Context Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, & @keeanga.bsky.social for an emergency town hall on the accelerating corporate dominance of our societies Mon., Feb. 17 at 5:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Work from home.

The LPE Program at Harvard Law School is hiring an Executive Director! Highlights: - Scholarly and organizational role - Open to JD and/or PhD graduates - Work with superb faculty and students - Preferred start in July 2025 - Rolling application Full details at: lpe.law.harvard.edu/executive-di...

In Australia its a cheaper to cause an oil spill than to get a nursing degree In Norway they tax their oil industry and give kids free degrees while in Australia we subsidise the oil industry and charge kids a fortune to go to uni Priorities matter

$28 million for Macquarie Harbour "to help salmon companies that are foreign-owned, been making a mincer out of us for years & years & years...their profits are huge & yet, they haven't paid any tax for 3 years. Why aren't they cleaning up their own mess?" - Senator Jacqui Lambie #auspol

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx: Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds) Reading Marx's Capital v2 Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds) Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason The ABC of Contemporary Capital davidharvey.org/reading-capi...

A history we discuss heavily in my Jurisprudence course - truth always stranger than fiction.

“Capitalism is driving the destruction of our planet. We have to think outside – and against – the framework of our current political system” www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Patricia Williams in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review from 1987. Citation in Alt Text

Hey folks, help me out with this one? I'm putting together a starter pack for socio-legal scholars for @slsauk.bsky.social and others to use. Let me know if you or anyone else should be added! go.bsky.app/T5W1tVv

Are you working on: 1. Dystopia/utopia, climate change & law. 2. Law & sci-fi. 3. Patriarchy/capitalism & the limits of law. 4. Alternative history & law. 5. Legal progress/regression? Then submit an abstract to our #SLSA2025 stream, 'The Law(s) of the Future! 🧵 www.liverpool.ac.uk/law/slsa-202...

But, dear reader, we did not…

Summer editing begins.

Merry Chrimbo to those who partake

How unfortunate to agree with Peter Hitchens, but here we are: hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2012/04/step...

Julius Stone Institute talk

Speaking on CLS next week in Sydney - if you’re free, come along!

My brief thoughts on cancelled flights and a noticeable gap in Australian consumer law - in The Guardian this week

Perfect metaphor: "At colleges and universities everywhere, the syllabus has become a terms-of-service document." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Sitting in Princes Park reading Quinn Slobodian’s Crack-Up Capitalism.

Open Day 2023 for the RMIT LLB.