We know we haven’t been very active here, but rest assured we are active in real life! Save the date for the LPE in Europe Summer Academy 2026: 10-12 June, University of Glasgow. Call for applications will follow!

🚨 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...

Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism. This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...

I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

🚨 ONLINE EVENT Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition. Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social 📅 16 Oct 6PM BST 🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

Tonight’s Wheelwright Lecture. Raewyn Connell with a masterclass in dissecting three structural tensions producing university crises, and how to begin addressing each of them. The talk ended with Tagore’s university - as a meeting place of worlds, built collectively, under the trees.

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN Thursday 11 Sep 9am Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton. A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

It’s lovely to be in Canberra this month as a visiting fellow at the ANU Law School. On Thursday 18th September, I’ll be presenting some of the work from my new book which explores emotions and conflicts over LGBT rights. Come along if you’re around! Details here: law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve... 🌈🎓

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present 17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location) Deadline 31 October 2025 www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

Trump just purported to abolish the Patent Office union on the grounds that the PTO is a national security agency

‘I’m not saying it’s not a tragedy’ says Jack Lew, while defending Israel’s killing of ‘children of Hamas fighters’. The language of tragedy has become the refuge of all those who want to obscure agency and responsibility, as if Palestinians are simply fated to die.

thrilled, delighted etc to be in Sydney this month for the most rain this city has seen since 1858. get in touch if you want to have coffee and know of somewhere dry

The AFLJ is looking for a Publication and Media Support Officer to assist with its copyediting, outreach and engagement activities! Are you a Melbourne-based graduate researcher with an interest in feminism and law? This position could be perfect for you! drive.google.com/file/d/16z3u...

Many progressives think Open Science is a good thing but it has an ambiguous stance re IP. Here is @kathybowrey.bsky.social's critical intellectual property scholarship's angle on Open Science on @ishtip.bsky.social youtube page. ⬇️

Important, but probably under most people's radar: The Inter American Court of Human Rights has issued an advisory opinion on care work, both paid and unpaid (currently only available in Spanish). @minmaxsunt.bsky.social - this will be of interest to you, I think.

I have a new paper in History of Political Economy that is now available to read for free online. It's about what we can and can't learn from studying – and criticizing – economics using the methods of the history of science. read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

very much enjoyed speaking to the international law clinic at ANU today about paths for legal advocacy in relation to climate, including scientific and technological cooperation; geoengineering and the law; and remedies and structural reparations in the ICJ’s recent advisory opinion.

very much looking forward to convening this workshop with my colleague Wanshu Cong in just two short weeks - hopefully to lead to many more conversations on an international law for another technology. law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve...

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

On the deep and long-term consequences of cuts to Sociology at the ANU. The work being done here, and the prospects for interdisciplinary research across the Colleges, played a big part in my decision to join the law school. Its loss impoverishes us all. www.canberratimes.com.au/story/902804...

"With the destruction of an entire medical system and a generation of medical professionals, this genocide will continue to kill its victims for years to come"

RIP Paul Coe, a leading light in First Nations struggles for land rights and sovereignty www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

CfP: Reconsidering Legal Subjectivity In and Through the Anthropocene, soziologie.de/fileadmin/us...

MEDIA RELEASE: A National Crisis in HASS The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has issued a public call for urgent action in response to widespread cuts to staff, programs and entire disciplines across Australian universities. chass.org.au/docs.ashx?id...

on the limits of civil obedience in times of genocide, and the broader authoritarian turn in protest trials in the UK

The 'Joerges issue' just dropped- Law, Conflict and Transformation. Thank you @annabeckers.bsky.social, @vbogoesky.bsky.social, @stevenklein.bsky.social, @annapeychev.bsky.social, @mariaweimer.bsky.social, and others for brilliance and patience. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are very excited to announce a new #EnvHist award: the 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞! In honor of longtime contributor to the field and former ICEHO president Verena Winiwarter, this prize will serve to promote global environmental history articles. Read more here: www.iceho.org/prize

Mark the date in your diaries - we are hearing that the Advisory Opinion of Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change will be read in open court on Wednesday 23 July 2025, at 3 p.m. The Hague time, i.e. 2pm UK time. www.icj-cij.org/case/187

I’m heading to Australia in August! Excited to attend @annasaunders.bsky.social and @wanshucong.bsky.social’s workshop on IL and technology from below. Any other events that would be fun for a Marxist IL scholar? Would love to meet up with comrades and colleagues - reach out if you’re around💖

Check out this cfp for a workshop that @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social and I are organising in Oct in our capacity as co-chairs of the ANZSIL gender, sexuality and international law interest group. If you have an interest in feminist or queer approaches to IL, consider submitting an abstract b4 1 August!

One of my students was also a victim of Heydon, and I find his reception back into the profession’s fold highly objectionable. www.smh.com.au/national/i-w...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Junior colloquium "Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750-2000)" (Paris: Sciences Po/Center for History, 27-28 NOV 2025) [DEADLINE 10 AUG 2025] @sciencespo.bsky.social 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/06/call...

👀 Spotted by @diking.bsky.social on the National Archives website: “Effective July 7, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the public”

📢 Joint ISHTIP/Warwick Law School online seminar with Kathy Bowrey @kathybowrey.bsky.social who will provide a critical IP perspective on the Open Science Movement 🕰️ 30 June 2025, 1-2pm (London), online ❗Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/warwick-la... ℹ️ Info: ishtip.org/open-science...

These unprovoked, illegal attacks *prevented* the “dialogue and diplomacy” that was scheduled

no aggressive war; no war on Iran.

It is shocking that 22 years after the US, UK and Australia went to war in Iraq based on the WMD lies, we see mainstream media headlines today running Trump's Iran "weeks away" from a nuclear weapon claim without explicitly framing it as directly contradicted by his own intelligence community

great piece by Ben Huf on the politics of (asset) welfare in the ABR: www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...

Israel has submitted something like an Article 51 letter to the UN for its attack on Iran. The letter both alludes to self-defense and an ongoing armed conflict with Iran. Claims it is responding to an "imminent threat" from Iran. US response to Israel's 1981 attack on Osirak is instructive:

ROUNDTABLE on Intellectual Property and Industrial Property (in the Era of Trump) Wellcome Collection, London | 19 June | 3:30-5pm GMT In-person and online & open to public With @mbarber.bsky.social @kathybowrey.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social Vitor Ido, Svitlana Lebendeko, Caoimhe Ring, me

'Rather than inducing mass unemployment, the more immediate effects of generative AI are likely to mirror broader trends of job transformation already unfolding today, namely de-skilling and surveillance.' Good piece by @abenanav.bsky.social www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

UN's Special Rapporteur has a clear say on fossil fuels and its impacts on human rights: -60% of oil and gas left in the ground -no new fossil burning power plants -fossil infrastructure need be retired before end of technical life docs.un.org/en/A/HRC/59/42

In Gaza, war crimes continue: "Medics at Al-Awda Hospital in . central Gaza . said at least three people were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire as they tried to approach a GHF site near the Netzarim corridor. Two others were killed en route to another aid site in Rafah" t.co/cIUDHa7Sr2

Hi everyone I was denied entry, detained, and deported from the USA over the last 48 hours because of my reporting on the Columbia student protests I arrived back in Melbourne hours ago and had my phone handed back to me upon landing

Incredibly reckless statement here from our Foreign Minister. No state has a right to bomb another simply for the purposes of forcible disarmament. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

New publication in Industrial Law Journal 🎉 The early EU once imagined a different kind of environmental policy. It was rooted in social democracy, not neoliberal logic. It's open access so you can give it a read at the link below 👇 doi.org/10.1093/indl...

Not "preemptive." Illegal. There is no evidence of an actual or imminent armed attack by Iran. This is a blatant violation of the UN Charter. It has no legal basis in the right of self-defense. Now we wait to see how many civilians will die because of this insanity.