Good to see Vanuatu's key lawyer, Julian Aguon, along with the mighty Pacific Island Students Fighting Climate Change, honoured for their work on the ICJ Advisory Opinion on climate change.

there is a direct line from 2001/2002 - Cheney (gloves are off), Gonzales (Geneva Conventions are "quaint"), Yoo (Geneva doesn't apply to Afghanistan) - to today. a very direct line and long-term rot on the right.

Universities Australia signed previous BCA letter demanding a range of pro-business measures, but did not join EPBC letter. Still a major breach of university neutrality www.bca.com.au/our-i...

Taiwan literally rocking soft power.

Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️ That's what I call great ambassador

The worst thing about the university governance crisis is that #ANU is not an outlier. The best thing about the university governance crisis is that it's come to light because @nteunion.bsky.social members across the country have had enough & acted together. ✊

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla's resignation comes amid investigation into role in luring South Africans to fight in Ukraine.

Beyond all other illegalities Hegseth's order to kill survivor's in the water is a crime which implicates all US personnel. If Hegseth's policy would be generally accepted, future US navy personnel shipwrecked would also become lawful targets. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.

DYK: Women have earned the majority of doctoral degrees awarded by American universities each year since 2009. First women to earn a PhD in the US? Helen Magill White. Her PhD was in Greek from Boston University, 1877. She was born #OTD in 1853. @bostonu.bsky.social#OTD #education #highered #academia

In 10 days Trump has slurred 4 female reporters as “Horrible” “Piggy,” “Ugly” and “Stupid.” people.com/trump-snaps-...

A central issue at trial for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam was whether an Army lieutenant, or the Army captain who was his superior, was responsible for the order to leave no survivors. Neither suggested the SecDef would have given such a command.

Periodic reminder that Colombia and Venezuela are parties to International Criminal Court. Thus, the Court's jurisdiction extends to crimes committed on vessels registered in those states.

The new PRC white paper on arms control contains a strong and clear endorsement of China's no-first use policy. Whatever else one might say about the paper or the policy, one can't say it is ambiguous.

+1. ~15% of the cohort in our competitive 'need to do well to progress' 1st year law class attended and/or watched recordings of 10% or less of the lectures, attended zero small group tutorials, do not know where to find course readings in week 12 of a 12 week course. *Total* disengagement is new.

When the six Democrats said military officers ”can refuse illegal orders”, they were correct—indeed they went no further than that the Department of Defense’s own guidance, writes @davidallengreen.bsky.social.

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1893, over 90,000 women in Aotearoa New Zealand voted in parliamentary elections for the first time. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NZHistory 🗃️

Go on then, as it's Friday...Introduce yourself with 5 animals you have seen in the wild Emu Quokka Penguins Dolphins Red and grey squirrels

The judge says it is "necessary" for the 80-year-old to remain in detention as the conditions proposed by his lawyers do not meet the conditions for parole.

"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...

"They are negotiating new agreements with Wiley and Springer Nature and are 'confident of reaching a positive outcome with both publishers.' It’s just Elsevier that has taken their bat and ball and gone home." Read more and find out how we can help @therealrw.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/drme...

Also next Thursday - Advocate-General's opinion on how to assess credibility of asylum claims from women/girls who say they would face persecution on grounds of their belief in sex equality - curia.europa.eu/juris/fiche....

People of Georgia have been for a year protesting on the streets, while the Georgian Dream government has done everything in its power to prevent them from doing so. We should do more to help Georgians.

An on-country youth diversion facility has been built in the state's far north, offering a culturally grounded alternative to traditional youth justice programs.

South Africans in Ukraine: 'Scared and desperate' after allegedly being duped by Zuma's daughter to fight for Russia

Duterte’s legal team is appealing an October decision to keep the octogenarian in custody after judges found that he was likely to refuse to return for trial and could use his freedom to intimidate witnesses.

Monash University are paying back millions to staff after a landmark wage theft ruling in Federal Court - and also paying NTEU $450,000 in a 'contrition payment'. Read more: nteu.info/monashpayback youtube.com/shorts/xISVU... #HigherEducation #highered #academia #AcademicSky #universities #monash

By my PhD student Ignacio Portela Giráldez: France wants a bigger role in the Pacific, but hasn’t reckoned with decades of nuclear testing in Polynesia. ECtHR case may show France a path forward, but until then, talk of “renewed presence” rings hollow for many. verfassungsblog.de/an-atomic-bo...

When Tamsin is the voice of doctrinal reason, things have crossed some sort of event horizon.

New episode of #CalledToTheBar is out! We break down UNSC Resolution 2803 and the bizarre reality of Donald J. Trump’s Gaza “peace plan” becoming international law. Self-determination? A “Board of Peace” chaired by Trump and Blair? We have questions. So many questions. soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

To add context, part of why there were so many more applicants is because they moved DECRA back six months, effectively skipping funding the scheme for a year. They had to extend eligibility as a result, so this was essentially two years in one. But with no adjustment to number of grants awarded.

they are removing a big australian beach christmas artwork from redfern station (a huge train station) because it's ai garbage. kangaroos have koala heads and some animals have missing limbs and one of them is WEARING A BRA

Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a… on.ft.com/4ahkNKa

Press freedom is being destroyed from Gaza to America. Don’t think it can’t happen here | Kerry O'Brien

My role model.

The article gives context beyond the headline numbers, and discusses the danger that coercive control laws can be used against victims (DARVO).

The US is committing extrajudicial murders on the high seas in breach of international human rights law, and possibly international criminal law. These actions should be condemned by all nations, including Australia and NZ; I can find no evidence of such. anzsilperspective.com/murder-on-th...

More than one in six cases of sexual harassment in Australia happen at work social events. If it happens to you, or you’re a bystander – here’s what you can do. 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/how-to-...

My latest in @anzsil.org Perspective, on current goings on in #intLaw relating to #Gaza, covering recent reports, & status of #ICJ & #ICC cases. anzsilperspective.com/internationa...

Suggestions the pitch at Perth Stadium was not up to scratch for the first Ashes Test have been well and truly put to bed as the ICC hands down its assessment of the playing surface.

Georgia's pro-EU protesters defiant year after accession process was halted

This is what SLAPPs do: tie up campaigners for years in cases with little prospect of success as trial. Bravo to Ben Pennings for standing firm against this legal harassment. Australian AGs should consider adopting anti-SLAPP laws like California or Ontario.

This is a really great piece, on the importance of teaching IHL, and teaching it well, to the military lieber.westpoint.edu/teaching-ope...

On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...

Hugely gratifying!

Best cat thread this week.

Alt text: from ABC news, Zero cervical cancer cases diagnosed in Australian women aged under 25 in 2021 - the first time since records began in 1982. (Please use alt text, people.)

Australia's top universities have aligned themselves with oil and gas producers, miners and developers on a a key piece of environment legislation, drawing the ire of dozens of academics.

Oh, No!

This is surreal: 'despite the plausible legal framework, the OLC opinion relies on a fact pattern about the cartels for which no public evidence appears to exist.' We'll be teaching this in the 'how not to do international law' parts of our courses for years to come.