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...

New @crikey.com.au piece- Australia's latest fossil-fuelled data centre carbon bomb would undo one year's worth of emissions cuts for the state of New South Wales if it were to go ahead at its proposed scale This is #Petrotech at work - and it's going to get worse www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/11/f...

Israel's military campaign in Lebanon is illegal because it is unnecessary. It is unnecessary because Israel has a reasonable alternative. That reasonable alternative is for Israel to end its unlawful act of aggression against Iran. My latest @justsecurity.org

The Gulf states & Israel depend on water desalination to live. If Israel & US break the taboo of bombing vulnerable desal infrastructure, they risk catastrophic harm. Percent of drinking water from desal: Israel: 80% Kuwait: 90% Saudi Arabia: 70% Oman: 86% UAW: 42% www.ndtv.com/world-news/i...

Western countries backing what the US and Israel are doing in Iran aren’t just going to lose legitimacy in the eyes of their domestic publics, but are shredding any notion a new alliance of middle powers or whatever can defend any semblance of an international order.

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

The UK's legal position on the use of its bases in the Middle East is solid with one glaring hole: The US cannot act in collective self-defence with the Gulf States. It is the aggressor. Ergo the UK cannot assist the US in collective self-defence.

The strikes are so obviously unlawful that it is not even up for debate. If the Foreign Minister has legal advice to the contrary, she should release it to the public immediately.

Thanks to all who braved the rain for last night’s CIPL event on Trump 2.0. I spoke on the defunding of climate science, in violation of customary law; energy policy and the idea of a human right to consume; and the rhetoric (if not always the reality) of resource militarism.

no aggressive war; no war on Iran.

Back in the classroom with something new: a course on International Law, Science and Technology, heavily tilted toward questions of ecology, unequal power, and subaltern science. Lots of energy in the room from our students on Day 1, and looking forward to thinking together.

The Jewish Council of Australia condemns Benjamin Harnwell's appalling comment at the Advance conference and call on our leaders and the Antisemitism Envoy to speak out in condemnation.

I found this lying around in a random folder with other things I made in grad school: FOOTNOTE ALIGNMENT CHART

Full time, permanent law and politics lecturer post at @laws.ucl.ac.uk. Background either a social scientist with law training, or a lawyer with social science interest. Teaching: either/both of introductory EU/PIL, plus specialist teaching. Civil lawyers welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Once, Latin Americans imagined international social rights far more ambitiously than today. My new piece, published in ICON (Open Access), builds on Nehal Bhuta's erudite history of social rights to recover that forgotten Latin American horizon. academic.oup.com/icon/advance...

Kafka on submitting to law reviews:

"wars can be lost before they are even declared if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle."

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social. 𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy 𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026 𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below. We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

The International Journal of Law in Context is looking for a co-editor-in-chief. Terrific opportunity for socio-legal scholars out there: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A University of Alaska student ate another student's artwork, when he discovered it was AI-generated www.uafsunstar.com/news/student...

For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social:

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone. The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets. We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

this film is so good and the composition (by Li Tavor) is haunting m.soundcloud.com/li-tavor/pol...

looking forward to speaking some time at Sciences Po Law as a Senior Visiting Fellow from the first week of May to late June, and catching up with friends and colleagues in that quarter of the world - if passing through please get in touch!

closing in two days - join us!

Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism International Workshop Friday, 13 February 2026 Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills Please register by February 6!

Back writing today, going back over my notes from December’s APLS workshop, and grateful all over again for the brilliant questions and hard thinking of colleagues and comrades

📢 Call for Papers 📢 2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” 📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026 ⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026 👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/ @davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social

Happy new year. A reminder that the deadline for paper proposal for the annual workshop 2026 in Sao Paolo is this Friday 🕰️ This year's theme is "Intellectual Property and Democracy". We hope you can join us!

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next. All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation." www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

Our project 'Socialization in Theory and Practice: Democratizing Access to Land and Energy' now has its own website, including upcoming events, publications and resources on socialization and information about the project: socializationproject.de

Absolutely disgraceful from the Adelaide Festival. I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.

Indian govt justifying arrests of climate activists by stating that the adoption of a fossil fuel treaty ‘could expose India to legal challenges in international forums like the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and severely compromise the nation’s energy security and economic development’.

UTS is hiring! Great faculty, great city. All teaching areas with particular interest in land law, commercial law, civil procedure, Indigenous legal relations. recruitment.uts.edu.au/OA_HTML/OA.j...

hey! hey!!! if you are an academic of any rank in the critical tech studies space who cares about how money, finance, and business structures work in science and technology, i want to see your abstracts for a collected volume! they're due tomorrow!!! https//oddletters.com/tech-money/

For those teaching International Law this semester, you may want to consider assigning South Africa's statement to the UN Security Council today: dirco.gov.za/statement-by...

AMWU: “The commodification of houses into a vehicle for accumulating and hoarding wealth has exacerbated inequality and allowed property developers, real estate agents and investors to profit from denying working people the dignity of home ownership” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Forceful commentary from my Sydney colleague, international law expert Ben Saul: 'Countries like Australia need to wake up to who they are dealing with in the US ... Appeasing him emboldens him to do worse...'

Statement from Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay and Spain regarding the events in Venezuela www.minrel.gob.cl/sala-de-pren...

on this sunday-est of sundays, syllabus-ing for a new term you're not alone against the oligarch agenda of cognitive deskilling, data capture, surveillance, and bias: we've got assignment ideas, memes, recommended readings, o' captain speeches, syllabus policies, and so much more against-a-i.com

"Spain did not recognize the Maduro regime. But neither will it recognize an intervention that violates international law"

The legal assessment of the US intervention is not, in fact, complex