Coming to a bookstore near you in February 2027.

It's been a labour of love, hope and despair writing this piece but at least I got the chance to do so with great colleagues, comrades and friends: law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/asset... A detailed commentary on the ICJ's AO on Palestine: its value and failures and everything in-between.

I was very happy to sit down with @tnovitz.bsky.social and record this super exciting CTTB episode on the ICJ AO on the right to strike and, more broadly, the history and current predicament of the ILO: soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Superb by @wanshucong.bsky.social: 'If the formal, legalist model of governance has not dominated the most crucial sectors of the global economy, why does it occupy such a prominent position in the minds of international lawyers... lpeproject.org/blog/the-inf...

Looking forward to this year's ISHTIP workshop at USP, São Paulo on 25-26 June, on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy'. Huge congratulations to the organisers on a terrific program. To join us, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/17th-ishti...

For anyone who published a book, article, or digital project on legal history between Jan.2025 and Dec.2026: you should apply to be featured in the ASLH's virtual event series for next yr--"Making Connections: New Works in Legal History, 2026-27." Due June 30, 2026: aslh.net/virtual-book... (1/2)

+++Save the Date+++ Melinda Cooper – Anachronism in Our Times Adorno-Vorlesungen 2026 18–20 November 2026, 6.30–8 pm Nov. 18: Patrimonial Capitalism Nov. 19: Fascism as Revolutionary Conservatism Nov. 20: Patriarchy Resurgent @goetheuni.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @melindacooper.bsky.social

SocArXiv accepts law papers, as we always have. Some of the bells and whistles he wants we don't have- like ranking and email subscriptions, but those can be built using SocArXiv. We don't have funds or staff to help build that, but law schools do.

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Scientists: We desperately need long, unbroken records of North Atlantic currents to see how close we are to a #climate tipping point. US government: sending ships to rip 900 deep-sea sensors out of the water. Congress voted twice to keep them funded. They're being pulled anyway.

The draft programme is up now on our website! Our workshop format intends to foster interdisciplinary conversations: chosen papers are presented by commentators from a different discipline (or different subfield. This year it will be all the more special with our Brazilian colleagues' engagement.

ISHTIP goes to Sao Paulo! Registration for the 17th Annual Workshop is open, and everyone who is interested in history and theory of intellectual property is very welcome to join. Please find more details in the page below.

100% this

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

Nothing in the Budget last night for the ARC. Despite review after review recommending ARC funding be increased, nothing. Year on year, the same thing, no matter who's in Government.

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

If you published an article on legal history in *2025,* you should nominate it for a 2026 ASLH prize! For US work: Cromwell Prize for early career authors. For non-US work: Sutherland Prize for Britain/British empire + Burbank Prize. Due June 1, 2026: aslh.net/award_type/a... #legalhistory

my people

Please join us for the last ISTHIP online seminar series of this academic year 💫 Séverine Dusollier and Nicolas Malevé will talk about "The Legal Aesthetics of Copyright, How AI Unmakes Images" 🗓️ Monday 18 May 2026 🕰️ 4.00pm (Paris – CEST) Everyone is welcome. Registration & info:

As universities collapse, we’ll see a proliferation of micro-universities, analogous to microstates - for why is it any *less* precarious to declare yourself Rector Magnificus of the University of East Runton and live in a static caravan wearing homemade robes and wielding a papier-mâché mace?

For legal historians: June 1 is the *biggest deadline of the year* for many ASLH opportunities. For early career funding, check out the ASLH Early Career Global Legal History Research fellowships (for scholars of the non-US) & Cromwell fellowships (for scholars of the US): aslh.net/award_type/f...

Reminder that we at the London Review of International Law are hosting a lecture at 5.30pm on 7 May at the Lauterpacht Centre, Cambridge, to be delivered by Professor Andrew Lang, on: 'Fantasies of No Value' Abstract and to register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/fantasies-...

This call has been extended until 7 May - please share with colleagues and networks

Hugely significant litigation commenced by ACIJ - with a view to halting the supply of arms to a genocidal state, but which will also shed needed light on Australia’s broader enrolment in military supply chains. All eyes on the Federal Court: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Did you or a scholar whose work you love have an article accepted this academic year? If so, let us know! Later this month, we’ll highlight some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent work from the past two cycles. Send nominations to [email protected]. Self-noms highly encouraged!

Calling on legal scholars/practitioners to endorse an open letter to the co-hosts and participants of the Santa Marta Conference on the Legal Foundations for Fossil Fuel Phaseout. Read the letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Deadline: 09:00 PDT/18:00 CEST on 20 April 2026

Reminder that the call for panellists for this year’s @anzsil.org Teaching Workshop closes tomorrow. Join us!

a fantastic course:

more from me on this soon in talks at Edinburgh in May and Te Herenga Waka—VUW @anzsil.org in June...

This article highlights something really important: it is absolutely bonkers how many massive, energy + water hungry data centres are being built in Sydney suburbs that are already subject to worsening climate impacts and heat island effects. They'll make both worse

The CFP deadline for #AusSTS2026 has been extended! Get your abstracts and submissions in by next Friday 10 April aussts.org/aussts2026

cool new journal issue alert! second installment from the law and capitalism conference at Duke. I have a piece in it - can't wait to read the others. lcp.law.duke.edu

Essential thread by Melissa Barber at MSF if you want to understand how pharma IP is not only a pricing issue but absolute supply of essential medicines

The JHI Blog has released a call for submissions to its forum on the “Conceptual History of Technology.” Pitches are due on May 7.

Update: this did not go well

Applications now open for this year’s EUI summer course on human rights. Two weeks of thinking through the theme of ‘Imagining Planetary Legal Orders’ with convenors @tim-lindgren.bsky.social , Arnulf Becker Lorca, faculty, artists and activists. Apply! www.eui.eu/apply?id=ael...

Applications now open for this year’s EUI summer course on human rights. Two weeks of thinking through the theme of ‘Imagining Planetary Legal Orders’ with convenors @tim-lindgren.bsky.social , Arnulf Becker Lorca, faculty, artists and activists. Apply! www.eui.eu/apply?id=ael...

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

Call for panellists (please share)! This year’s ANZSIL ILTIG workshop will be held in the PM on Tues 30 June, Te Herenga Waka-VUW. Panel themes are teaching international law in middle powers, and teaching international law on Indigenous land. Info and form here: anzsil.org/event-6624819

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government. We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists. www.smh.com.au/environment/...

"one in three women exit academia following motherhood. For mothers, childbirth leads to a persistent decline in both tenure attainment & research output, while men’s trajectories on these margins are unaffected by parenthood". recent study based on data from Denmark cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/downloa...

Call for panellists (please share)! This year’s ANZSIL ILTIG workshop will be held in the PM on Tues 30 June, Te Herenga Waka-VUW. Panel themes are teaching international law in middle powers, and teaching international law on Indigenous land. Info and form here: anzsil.org/event-6624819

This would be a war crime.

Here is a PhD position in arts law at UNSW investigating AI, copyright and the private regulation of creativity. You'll work with the fantastic @kathybowrey.bsky.social and Louise Buckingham from the Arts Law Centre of Australia, wider team myself and Marie Hadley. www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...

Disturbing to see a prolonged military occupation of Iran, off the back of an illegal war of aggression, normalised as a policy option by the panel on this morning’s Insiders. Journalists seeking to diagnose the decline of international law: the call is coming from inside the house.

For more of my thoughts on feminism and international law, you might be interested in my review essay of recent feminist scholarship in the new Australian Yearbook of International Law, 'Feminist Imaginings of International Law':

Stripped of life: the deadly South Australian algal bloom is still spreading one year on

We're hiring a Legal Fellow! If you are interested in joining our small but mighty team on the frontlines of the fight to protect and defend science, please visit www.csldf.org/about/work-w...