Have an office and a staff profile so I guess it’s real now: scholars.latrobe.edu.au/dsheikh Hi La Trobe!

Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood takes two unassailable truths - billionaires are evil, the left is annoying - and spins them into narrative gold. Thrilling stuff.

Absolutely bowled over and delighted about this …

I'm thrilled that The Lawful Forest, the book I wrote with the fabulous John Page, has been awarded the 2023 Penny Pether Prize for its ‘significant contribution to the field of Australasian law, literature and humanities scholarship’.

In 2023, the AFLJ celebrates its 30th anniversary!🎉 We'll celebrate sharing some of our favourite publications. Today's is Maria Giannacopoulos': "White Law/Black Deaths: Nomocide and the Foundational Absence of Consent in Australian Law". #Openaccess here 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for nominations for the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law

I am very grateful to those who turned up in person and tuned in online for this talk. If you missed it and are interested, the recording is here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmt...

Melbourne friends, I’m presenting some new theatrical work this week on the difficulty & desirability of building utopian worlds through art. Join us a for a first reading of “Post Show Q & A”, Tuesday evening at the gorgeous Docklands Library: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In my Swiftposium era.

Shocking. I’m shocked.

I have been interested in comparative study of law, its methods, and difficulties since the mid 90s. After having published tens of articles and many books, I think I know something about the subject. Here is the thing: reading non-scholarly novels is important for methodological imagination.

Very helpful tips on navigating bluesky: michaelgallagherwrites.com/tips-work-ar...

Is he? In this essay I will -

Strange time to get the words “I am attired in wonder” tattooed on your forearm, I’ll admit. Then again, the imperative feels more important now than it ever has.

Nice to read this as I put the finishing touches on my abstract for Swiftposium 2024!

100% not the most important thing in the world rn, but comrade Oishik Sircar wrote an extremely interesting book about law, modernity and violence in post-colonial India and I was very happy to review it: www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/indi...