@stevevladeck.bsky.social - your work is getting a shout out this morning at our judicial conference in Adelaide, South Australia. The challenge to rule of law, and dangers of the shadow docket, a concern all over the globe.

🚨🚨 #China intimidated @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social to ditch #humanrights research conducted by @lauratmurphy.bsky.social . Absolutely disgraceful behaviour by Sheffield Hallam uni. www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Happy Halloween 🎃

Happy Halloween 🎃 Australia Remember to remind any wowser complaining that Halloween is just an American import that so too were the Separation of Powers, constitutional rights and indeed a written constitution.

Listen to tamsin. She knows her shit

Frankly, my view is that *all* NDAs should be unenforceable as contrary to public policy.

When your Halloween decorations are getting pretty niche but you are having fun For you @drnajimagi.bsky.social ❤️

This is great comms on why this is a problem. Excellent thread

People seem worried today about RW trolls coming to this platform. Remember, we know trolls greatest fear and weakness

Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize

Interesting piece here on private prosecution. What is missing from the article is *any* awareness that this a standard pseudolaw technique www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

So I am now *officially* famous. Here I am in New Idea - my Nan would be very proud. @joshroose.bsky.social and I both feature in this article on sovereign citizens/pseudolaw. And on page 8. That's two pages before Nicole Kidman...

Typically excellent and quotable work here by @edzitron.com www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Please help me get the word out about the new websites for Legal Theory Blog and the Legal Theory Lexicon. Reposting here and on other social media sites is great. It would be especially helpful if law school faculty members could send an email to their colleagues with the new addresses.

Quietly delighted that Beckett is today's Main Character (or close enough). My absolute favourite playwright. I performed Krapp's Last Tape as my Yr 12 Drama solo. Had a genuine reel-to-reel as perfect prop. Still cannot see the word "spool" without lingering over it. SPOOOOL.

This is a bloody stupid idea because (a) "sovereign citizen" is not an organisation of any type; (b) only one type of pseudolaw; (c) increasingly unpopular term among pseudolaw adherents. Also, all the criminology reasons stated www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

This is a hell of a read. AI psychosis is profoundly disturbing.

Wait. When did bluesky get a bookmark option?

I have a piece on "Ivory Washing" coming out shortly which looks at the misuse of academic expertise to provide unwarranted legitimacy to political views. This is one of my case studies

Researchers found more than 80 cases of generative AI use in Australian courts so far – mostly by people representing themselves. That comes with serious risks.

“Autistic ppl are a natural part of the human experience & society needs to affirm the value of ppl—even with significant disabilities. I don’t think eugenics is ethical or warranted in science or research.” @drstevenkapp.bsky.social to @juliametraux.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

joining the war on autism on the side of autism

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall, and it actually took me a moment to realize that they meant autumn, not the complete collapse of democracy.

I would bet folding money that genAI was used in the pleadings. The language and cadence scream it Reading through the order striking out Trump's action against the NYT (on Rule 8 pleading grounds) and I am struck by the language used in the original 85page pleading (extracts in ordrr).

This is all he said.

If the Americans come after the Australian High Court I vote we give Anne Twomey a tank

Ok, this is cool. A two page spread on our research (sov cits and pseudolaw) in today's Sunday Mail

Wow. Just got my first Dezi Freeman paise email from a random...

The only wrong thing in this article is that the Atlantic labelled it "humour".

This wins the internet today

A Victorian solicitor has been stripped of his ability to practise as a principal lawyer after being caught using AI-generated false citations in court case - he has acknowledged he did not verify the case list www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

I fleshed out a few of my thoughts about the comms from the ICJ to remove Judge Sebutinde and @verfassungsblog.de were kind enough to publish them: verfassungsblog.de/from-one-icj...

This was probably my favourite: talking to David Speirs on Insiders: On Background iview.abc.net.au/show/insider...

We need to stop using a framework of 'ChatGPT killed someone', it feeds into the myth of the system's agency & OpenAI's framing. The right framework to use: OpenAI is continuing to perpetuate an indefinite industrial disaster. The oil pipe is not at fault when it breaks. The company that built it is

In news that is entirely unsurprising to faculty

@arielbogle.bsky.social has been following this issue for years, and is one of the best informed journos in the country on pseudolaw issues. This article is absolutely worth the read www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Annnnnd, I am done. Just finished last (hopefully) media for the day. Been almost constant since 7:50am Not the circumstances you want to be in demand for.

This is awful. There is a reason Sov Cits have been seen as potential domestic terrorism threats. Guns are bad. Guns + lawlessness = dangerous

'Article 38 of the ICJ statute, which sets out the relevant sources of international law, does not encompass the word of God' Solid gold here from @mikebecker.bsky.social

One of the oldest sayings among computer programmers is "Garbage In, Garbage Out". In that context, the attached chart, showing the sources of information most consulted by AI, is worth contemplating. #AI

NEW CONSPIRACY: Rather than undermine the recently established requirement that the World Cup be held in an authoritarian country, FIFA has instead facilitated the collapse of constitutionalism in the US.

Can someone explain the whole cracker barrel thing that's going on today? Thanks, A Bemused and Confused Australian

Making pretty lecture slides just got that much easier!!

Russia wants to erаse Ukraine. We just want them to leave us the fkc alone. This is the difference.

Yet another lawyer pinged for using genAI. The quote here says it all really - users just fundamentally dont understand what the tech is doing www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ok. Feeling nervous now. Sitting down to watch my TV debut...

Sov Cit and Pseudolaw alert - great article here on the rise of these movements in Australia. Check out Four Corners tonight ABC @ 8:30pm for the full story www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Actually REALLY excited by this. The ABC's flagship investigative show 'Four Corners' is doing a feature "Lawfare" on Pseudolaw & Sovereign Citizens in Australia. I was interviewed and provided research and background. Have a watch: Monday 8:30pm, 18th of August www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...