The third piece in our @aflj.bsky.social Special Issue on abolition and international criminal law is now out! It's me, on ICL's extractive logics and prison conditions, and alternative imaginaries of transformative justice post atrocity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Commiserations and solidarity to all other unsuccessful applicants (like me) and congratulations to those funded 💓

The Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a communication with the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICC, providing details of 24 individuals allegedly responsible for the killing of Hind Rajab, 6 members of her family, and two Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics www.hindrajabfoundation.org/posts/her-na...

The next piece in our Special Issue on abolition and International Criminal Law is now out: Martin Clark on the relationships between domestic and international abolitions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Registrations are now open for our workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism'! The workshop will be hybrid and take place on 30 & 31 October at Melbourne Law School. See the draft program: drive.google.com/file/d/1YbYn...

The first piece in our Special Issue on ICL & abolition is out! It is an incredible essay by @disposablehuman.bsky.social & @debbiekilroy.bsky.social on 'the brutal realities of incarceration, particularly for Indigenous women in Australia.' Open Access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Making War Safe for Capitalism, I will be sharing the wonderfully kind endorsements that I have received for the book - starting with Dr Daniela Lai! bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/making-war-s...

Ok one of the most wild things about #tasvotes25 is that so far, no ALP candidate has attracted a full quota in their own right #politas (closest is Janie Finlay and this presumably may change with pre-polls counted?)

Parts of a speech made by Haddad that referred directly to the conduct of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces did not breach the Racial Discrimination Act because they could not reasonably be regarded as referring to Jewish people. theconversation.com/australian-l...

This "Meet the Author" refers to a discussion paper by @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social, abt the state of international law in the wake of the Gaza crisis. It is a discomfiting reflection that attracted a large readership. ⬇️ #InternationalLaw #AcademicPublishing think.taylorandfrancis.com/meet-the-aut...

My (long) essay on how the ICC & ICJ find themselves seized of the same atrocity crime contexts (incl. in Gaza, Myanmar, Ukraine & Afghanistan), their relative strengths, & the need for dialogue between the institutions to better address international crimes: justiceinconflict.org/2025/07/10/c...

Srebrenica, 11. juli 1995. da ne zaboravimo foto: Tarik Samarah

‘The actions of university managements across the country have turned campuses into hostile environments for discussion and activism on the question of Palestine.’ Preliminary Report of the People’s Inquiry into Campus Free Speech on Palestine is out www.palestineinquiry.com/home

All profiles now updated for full field of #tasvotes including record 45 independents - links to individual seats from this page. kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025... #politas

So be very wary of institutional demands to integrate Gen AI into teaching. Massive increased cost to workload and misleads students. theconversation.com/researchers-...

We’re back at the High Court to intervene in the case brought by Al Haq & GLAN to demand the UK Gov end ALL arms exports to Israel. Not a few. Not thirty. ALL. The UK has a legal obligation to prevent genocide - and right now Keir Starmer's gov is failing. #StopArmingIsrael #EndGazaGenocide

get on it folks

Projection: #Melbourne ALP gain from Green. Seat has been moved to expected win status. (I tend to avoid categorically "calling" seats outside Tas when there's a lot going on but I project Bandt at 47.6 in the live count which is not recoverable.)

We are hiring at RMIT Law! It's a great place to work, in the Melbourne CBD. Hiring at both Senior Lecturer aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... and Lecturer aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... Levels. Please get in touch to discuss!

Of 900 respondents from the biggest age-demographic voting block (the 18-39s), 'More than 500 feel pessimistic about the future, 174 are somewhat optimistic... and the rest oscillate between the two' www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I wrote about the raid on the Quaker meeting house for the paper.

It is a matter of faith for Friends to resist war; to be a responsible citizen in local, national, and international affairs; and to act unlawfully if conscience demands (Advices & Queries). Police came into a house of worship and took people exercising their faith www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...

More than 200 Australian Research Council grant recipients have signed this open letter calling for the ARC to immediately reinstate Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah’s Future Fellowship and protect grant recipients from politically motivated campaigns. Letter & signatory list: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

🧵 Dutton says he'll seek an FTA with Israel if he wins the election. A reminder that the International Court of Justice last year found all countries were “under an obligation not to render aid or assistance in maintaining the situation created by Israel’s illegal presence” in occupied territory.

Activist alerts ICC to spyware attack while sharing Libya torture victims’ details

📔 “The Afterlives of Transitional Justice” — the 2025 Special Issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (@oxunipress.bsky.social), which I edited with Francesca Parente — is out now! You can read our editors’ introduction at the link in the comments below.

If you like your numbers crunched @jodesz.bsky.social has all the stats for you to compare #Duterte to fellow inmates #ICC www.rappler.com/newsbreak/iq...

The resumption of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, with the full backing of the US government, is an outrage. Israel’s ongoing assault will only deepen the devastation and suffering already inflicted on Gazans.

if you were ever dying to read about how ICL functions as a mode of accumulation and what the implications of that are for its abolition - then today is your lucky day! (& if you're a normal person, then today is just monday)

I am very glad to have a new piece in this collection, written together with yassin brunger. We seek to advance an abolitionist geography of international criminal law, and particularly how the methods of pro-Palestine encampments offer an anti-carceral vision of justice

Devastated for my friends and colleagues at Dundee. Failures of management costing good scholars their jobs. The impact will be extraordinary - on the town of Dundee, Scotland's central belt, Scotland's young people, and knowledge as a whole. Solidarity to all.

My new book is now available to preorder. It looks at the last four decades of water governance and considers the interaction between human relationships with water and the law, through case studies from Chile, the UK, the Philippines, South Africa, the US, & Aotearoa New Zealand.

‘By the start of the Gaza war, the IDF had a host of AI-assisted targeting systems to guide its bombing spree, and was developing even more.’ Sophia Goodfriend on militarised AI, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

Apparently, due to some procedural issues, he's already been released and may be on the way home to Libya: "L’uomo, considerato un efferato “torturatore” di migranti è stato espulso «per un errore procedurale» ed ora potrebbe già essere a Tripoli. www.avvenire.it/attualita/pa...

If you're looking to stay on top of all this [gestures broadly] without getting completely overwhelmed, check out our "What Just Happened" brief explainers @justsecurity.org - www.justsecurity.org/106593/natio... (@marknevitt.bsky.social) - www.justsecurity.org/106621/withd... (Sue Biniaz)

Unbelievable: Al-Masry has been released due to a procedural error and has been allowed to flee. No surrender to the ICC anytime soon. This is so embarrassing. www.adnkronos.com/cronaca/alma...

RMIT Law is seeking to hire a Level D/E (continuing role) with a partial allocation to be the Deputy Dean, Learning and Teaching. Please get in touch if you'd like to discuss rmit.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/RMIT_Careers...

I am moved to see my work ‘Imagining a Free Palestine: Justice Without Criminal Law’ (originally published in LRIL) selected for translation into Arabic: www.madarcenter.org/%D9%85%D8%AC...

This was a true joy. I felt privileged to be here and share in this community of care and to engage with their beautiful scholarly creations.

Nice work on this @sophiejrigney.bsky.social - hope it gets the attention and support it so clearly deserves 👏🏻

Senators Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman have co-sponsored a package of Bills today, which seeks to strengthen Australia's commitment to international human rights standards, prevention of genocide, and greater accountability in financial, trade, and foreign policy: nit.com.au/28-11-2024/1...

Proposal also to ‘prohibit any student from addressing those present in a lecture, seminar or tutorial prior to the commencement of the lecture, seminar or tutorial on any subject matter’. Absolutely unreal.

This is an extraordinary picture. It shows the measure of household income per capita used to produce the Henderson Poverty Line. The post-COVID decline has us at an average income level not seen since 2009.

I recently heard about an academic middle manager (who is a 'crit' in their field and publishing on Palestine) who demanded an 'informal meeting' with an academic they manage, to chastise them for signing an open letter in support of Palestine.

this rules 🇳🇿 #nzpol

"Constitutional change, property, dissent, inequality and revolution are not the B-plot of the #Barbie film". New article by me, @colinmurray.bsky.social and @aoifemod.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

As a term that refers to an historical event and to an ongoing process of social destruction, 'Nakba' provides the most robust way to speak of the genocide taking place in Gaza and it invites us to adopt an alternative approach in (re)reading the Genocide Convention www.ejiltalk.org/lost-for-wor...