🌟 Call for papers 🌟 'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?' Join us in Florence in June! @eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social

The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to 🗓️ 16 January 2026! We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities. Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

now extended to 16 Jan - please share!

Save-the-date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa New Zealand!!

Reminder that @ishtip.bsky.social is now calling for papers for the 17th annual workshop: this year hosted by the University of São Paulo on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy', 25-26 June 2026. Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!

British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

Applications open for Ischia Summer School! Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS ischiasummerschool.org

had an incredible time presenting my paper yesterday on ‘International Lawmaking With or Against Authoritarian Science’ in this year’s stacked program for Australian Progressive Legal Studies (APLS). bring on Day 2!

If you're a friend or fan of writer Robert Skinner, you may have heard about his terrible accident a couple months ago. This Sat night at Coburg RSL is a benefit to help him back on his feet, out of debt, and to get his razzle-dazzle back. Music, fun and party guaranteed. Details below. Come along!

re-circulating this with a reminder that SSRN is an Elsevier platform. New Years' resolution to migrate to SocArXiv, anyone?

📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣 Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy When: 25-26 June 2026 Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025 More details: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...

HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand? It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why: www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...

A reminder that ANU Law School is taking expressions of interest for our Visiting Fellows Program in 2026 - details and application form in link below. We are a friendly bunch and the campus is a beautiful place to think and write. Please share! law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...

A reminder that ANU Law School is taking expressions of interest for our Visiting Fellows Program in 2026 - details and application form in link below. We are a friendly bunch and the campus is a beautiful place to think and write. Please share! law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...

if this happens, it will be the biggest international law news in decades and will be immediately followed by several of the hardest fought sets of litigation you have ever seen. time to stop ignoring tax

Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia. [Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]

CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support. Until this dispute is resolved: “Do not submit to Elsevier journals. Do not review for Elsevier. Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees… Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”

terrific project (and great city) for PhD applicants in climate governance and political economy!

A reminder that myself and Liz Sheargold are hosting a coffee drop-in for the @anzsil.org International Law Teaching Interest Group (ILTIG), this Thursday 27 Nov, 10.30am AEDT. Join us!

An utter disgrace. A Trumpian level of destruction being wrought at the CSIRO under Albo. "The environment unit, which has more than 700 full-time equivalent roles, will be reduced by 130 to 150. Four of its nine research focuses will not continue"

Disturbing to see this Labor government follow in the Trumpian footsteps of defunding science, albeit in a less spectacular way.

SAVE THE DATE 📣 International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop Intellectual Property and Democracy 25 & 26 June 2026 hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil. Call for papers will be circulated soon.

Is shame ‘a revolutionary emotion’? I reviewed Frédéric Gros’ book Philosophy of Shame: A Revolutionary Emotion for the Aust Book Review The review is pay-walled but you can hear me read it here: www.australianbookreview.com.au/book-reviews... @versobooks.bsky.social @austbookreview.bsky.social

London friends, speaking today Tuesday Nov 18 at 4:30pm at LSE in London. Hope to see you there!- www.lse.ac.uk/Internationa...

“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.” Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡

Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...

Important Call for Papers: 15th CJIL Conference 2026 - submit by Dec 31, 2025 on Reimagining International Law: Critical, Regional, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives (@cambridgelaw.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk 23-24 April 2026) cambridgejournalofinternatlandcomplaw.submittable.com/submit/34024...

Whoever would like to hear about the link between political theory and legall/patent law theory -here is a recording of the talk I gave last month: "After Patent Republic" My homage and debt to Mario Biagioli whose intellect and energy I miss...

Comrades, the moving labour collective is oraganising its third summer camp, this time in Malmö: June 14-17. We are hoping to create a space where labour scholars, lawyers, activists, unionists will collectively work on intersectional solidarity praxis and organising strategies. Come join us!

The Keynote Lectures by Isabel Feichtner and Omar Dahbour at our Land conference are now online on our youtube channel: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PYq... www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkLg...

do not sleep on this absolute belter of an article

Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony. Online first and gloriously open access ✨ doi.org/10.1177/2976...

Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...

So excited to return to my alma mater as a Pritzker Fellow with University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Among a long list of activities, I will host a seminar series on "The Development of Science & Technology Within Shifting U.S.-China Relations." Details: politics.uchicago.edu/fellows/curr...

more power to @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social drawing attention to the energy, water and land impacts of NSW data centres. these centres, and the wasteful technologies they feed, are not just pedagogically offensive but immensely destructive for climate and community www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...

anyone who boosts AI has to explain to me why this is worth it

Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!

Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!

Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...

Not to be missed! This afternoon for those on UK/European time.

nächste Woche, 23./24.10., Book Launch und Workshop zu Stadt-Land-Boden in Würzburg www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/02...

I am giving a talk in a week on “After Patent Republic” as part of the International Society for the History and Theory of IP @ishtip.bsky.social seminar series. All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)

Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.

What does de-dollarisation mean in practice? How does it relate to global law and governance? My article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law' is now out in JIEL. I present dollar dominance and de-dollarisation as competing legal institutions. academic.oup.com/jiel/advance...

In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open. Deadline: 15th December 2025. Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!

There's a lot going on in the world, so you may have missed the announcement that next week (6-8 October) the ICJ will hold oral hearings in the advisory proceedings on the right to strike. 20 states and 5 international organisations are due to participate. www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

I'm giving a talk on "After Patent Republic?" on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online, in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities. It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series. Everyone welcome. Abstract and registration:

🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨 The Land Question October 30-31, 2025 Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come! criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...