Academic selfie: lunch with 2 of my favourite people, Gina Heathcote and @emilyjones.bsky.social edition

Transqueer Ecological Justice Call for papers, concept notes and creative works by 18 August for an online workshop in the week of the 24th November 2025. More details on scope and how to apply beow. Do reach out if you have any questions.

CfP!!! The @anzsil.org Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group will be holding a workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism' on 31 October at Melbourne Law School: drive.google.com/file/d/10YPs...

Last month, we Iaunched Queer Judgments in Melbourne alongside two other fantastic books on queer law edited by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @claerwen.bsky.social. We had a lovely chat/performance about our books with @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto & Sarah Ward. Listen here:

And we're back from hiatus! New #CalledToTheBar is out! This week @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social speaks to @staceyhenderson.bsky.social and @crisveijk.bsky.social for a primer on space law! What is it? What activities does it govern? How deadly is space junk? Find out! soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

#CalledToTheBar is out for the week! This week @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social discusses the Scottish Ministers Case with @matteobassetti.bsky.social and Manon Buery. What does it mean for trans rights? And why do some courts struggle with trans rights as human rights? soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Happy that my article 'No future for future generations: who is international environmental law for?' is out! It Qs the who of FGs, thinking about race, class, gender, disability and anthropocentrism, before deploying queer & decolnial theory to recast the concept www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...

Terrific to see my book available online — and soon in print! Many thanks to series editors Nadia Lambek, @riclements.bsky.social, @leslava.bsky.social, and Markus Gunneflo! And congrats on the new series!

We have officially launched the Participatory Law Fund at Temple Beasley School of Law! The fund is devoted to supporting the production of an emerging genre of legal scholarship called Participatory Law Scholarship (or PLS). More info about the application process @ law.temple.edu/academics/in...

Reminder: applications for permanent lectureship in Environmental Politics due May 8. @uompol.bsky.social @environmentalpol.bsky.social @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I wrote a short piece on tariffs, sabotage and the end/s of international economic law for the good people of the @lpeblog.bsky.social. I almost had a nervous breakdown writing this, so you might as well read it lpeproject.org/blog/on-tari...

On 13th May I will give a talk at Goldsmiths (London-hybrid available) titled 'No Future for Future Generations: Who is International Environmental Law for?' In it, I deploy decolonial/queer/posthuman theory to analyse future generations in PIL. Sign up/details: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/no-future-...

For a sneak preview of my forthcoming monograph, please join for the virtual book talk of 'The Pathology of Plenty' organised by the fabulous @juliadehm.bsky.social & Caitlin Murphy! Details below 👇

So proud to have my book out with #Interventions! Counterterrorism and Colonialism: Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt argues that so-called exceptional violence is formed from the everyday production of colonial difference. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

@claerwen.bsky.social and @crisveijk.bsky.social have an amazing chapter in Queer Engagements with International Law of the performative heteronormative white masculinity that underpins space activities

Very much look forward to teaching human rights and the environment today @uvalawschool.bsky.social and discussing with our LLM students the work of my favourite scholars, such as @emilyjones.bsky.social @juliadehm.bsky.social, Tendayi Achiume, and Carmen Gonzalez!

Excited to share my new article, 'The Exclusive Making of Space Law', just published in Leiden Journal of International Law. This article took 3 weeks to write the first draft, but 3 years to finalise, and I'm grateful to everyone who helped me along the way. doi.org/10.1017/S0922156524000554

Taken by @ecusato.bsky.social/Sofia Tamburello's call to see the environment "not just as a ‘casualty’ of military conflict but (...) as ‘one of the means by which colonial racism is enacted, land is grabbed, siege lines fortified and violence perpetuated’" in Palestine. esil-sedi.eu/esil-reflect...

Reposting this here away from X blergh: My book, Counterterrorism and Colonialism: Everyday Violence in Britain and Egypt, is coming out on 31 March this year! Thanks to all who have supported me. ❤️ www.routledge.com/Counterterro...

The Non/Human Law Research Group at Newcastle Law School is pleased to be hosting a lecture by the fabulous @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on 'The Coloniality of Measuring Famine.' 27th February, 4-5pm GMT In person and on Zoom. All welcome. For more information/register: www.ncl.ac.uk/law/events/i...

Check out @romainchuffart.bsky.social's important reflections on whether/how international law can face up to environmental catastrophe and how posthuman theory can (and cannot) help in his fantastic review of 'International Law & Posthuman Theory.' www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5MR46...

The Labour Government has confirmed they invited numerous known hate groups and pro-conversion orgs to give evidence for their closed consultation on the puberty blocker ban, including Bayeswater Support, LGB Alliance, CAN-SG, Transgender Trend and Sex Matters. Never let them forget this choice.

EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 30: On the Precipice – The International Criminal Court and State Immunity | by Marko Milanovic

Someone put @djag2.bsky.social and me in charge of organising ANZSIL this year and it's gonna be fun. Theme and save the date out now - call for papers coming soon. There will be trivia! Hopefully a very special dinner! And of course papers and panels galore - please repost and save the dates.

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Feminist Legal Studies (FLS) is now on Bluesky. FLS is committed to an international and interdisciplinary perspective and to the promotion of feminist work in all areas of law, legal theory and legal practice. We publish material in a range of formats. Follow us! link.springer.com/journal/10691

Now I made it! The starter pack you've been looking for: Critical legal scholars, broadly understood - Marxist, LPE, postcolonial, TWAIL, feminist, queer approaches, etc., to law. I'll keep adding names, so feel free to tell me if you (or others) should be there (or shouldn't). go.bsky.app/Jm6c1nb

Hope to see some of you there.

We understand so little of the #biodiversity of the last frontier, the deep sea. We must not destroy it. Say no to #DeepSeaMining phys.org/news/2024-11...

Join me and @meaganwong.bsky.social for the Opening Lecture of the Public International Law Lecture Series 2024! Speaker: H.E. Mario Oyarzábal. Title: 'The ILC: Progress and Process'. 29th Jan 2024, 6pm GMT. Register: essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

International Law and Posthuman Theory, edited by Matilda Arvidsson and me, is out today! Available paperback first. www.routledge.com/Internationa...

So nice to start the week by waking up to this review of my book by Sanna S Lehtinen in EJIL. What a wonderfully generous and deeply feminist review - while still being critical and really engaging with the work. Given me a lot to think about! Thank you, Sanna. academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...

And ... we are back! Join me and my fabulous colleague, Dr Meagan Wong, for the Public International Law Lecture Series 2024! Our amazing speakers are already lined up - programme to be announced soon so watch this space!

Excited to see that the book Matilda Arvidsson and I have been editing together these past few years has a webpage! 'International Law and Posthuman Theory' comes out in January 2024 and is available for pre-order now - currently discounted in the sale! www.routledge.com/Internationa...

Join @ecusato.bsky.social and I on the 11th December online, where we will be discussing our political economic critique of the proposed crime of ecocide with the fabulous Christine Schwobel-Patel. Hosted by the Abolition Feminism Collective. Register here: www.tickettailor.com/events/newca...

This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Really chuffed our Special Issue on Feminist Manifestos is finally out in 1 place @ Global Constitutionalism It was a fab legal feminist team with @ruthhoughton.bsky.social @emilyjones.bsky.social Gina Heathcote, Lucia Kula & Sheri Labenski shorturl.at/jmwQ5

So tired of reading critical international law scholarship that's written as though it's saying something so new, when half the time it's just repeating things feminist scholars said a decade ago. Of course, said feminist scholarship is never referenced 🥱

Today's critical disability studies quote: 'What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?' Audre Lourde, The Cancer Journals

It's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org

Disability studies quote of the day: Unless you have experienced it yourself, it’s hard to understand fully the ache of watching others live their lives while it feels as though you are merely aging. It’s not the fear of missing out; it’s just missing out. Crip Negativity by @jlsmilges.bsky.social

A must read on breast cancer politics: 'One might even argue that the heart of pink-ribbon culture is the demand to perform upbeat, cheerful and attractive femininity… precisely so as to close off the genderqueer possibilities it otherwise raises.' aeon.co/essays/how-b...

Me and the fab Eliana Cusato wrote a political economic analysis of the proposed new crime of ecocide. Very happy to see this out in the world. Check it out here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Really looking forward to this reading group, organised with Ruth Houghton for the Prefigurative Politics and Radical Governance group.