Get your tickets now! The 2025 Kaldor Centre Conference will focus on 'Building bridges: Advancing refugee protection in a divided world'. Now more than ever, we need to pause, reflect and forge new paths forward - together conference.unsw.edu.au/en/2025-kald...

Really excited to see this one out in print: "Pseudolaw and the illusion of legal meaning" in the wonderful Alternative Law Journal @altlj.bsky.social An accessible overview of the phenomenon of pseudolaw, with an exploration of some of the overlap with GenAI journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Registrations for The Annual Castan Centre for Human Rights Law Conference open this Wednesday 23 April. join us at one of Australia’s leading human rights events, 25 July, in Melbourne Details @ our conference website: bit.ly/HumanRights25.

Do corporations have beliefs? A look back at the Hobby Lobby case with Dr Steve Kourabas at Monash Law. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c... #Law #CorporationsLaw

Is it a crime to attempt to murder a corpse? Today’s episode of Case in Point discusses a bizarre murder case in recent Australian legal history, mirroring one of Agatha Christie’s most famous novels. Dr Natalia Antolak-Saper, criminal law scholar unpacks the story of R v Darrington [2016] link 👇🏽

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Maybe you just need a distraction from the Cyclone, the (nearly) Election, the geo-political crises or the climate catastrophe? Try Case In Point, a lively, chatty podcast about legal curiosities and culture. Wherever you listen to your pods.

Season 2 of Case in Point is coming your way! Follow here (or wherever you get your pods) Tomorrow’s episode will test your sports knowledge podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...

Hurrah! The annual Australasian Law Academics Association (ALAA) Conference is on Wed 2 July to Friday 4 July 2025 at UQ Brisbane! Welcome legal academics, practitioners & policymakers to discussions on the evolving landscape of legal education & research Submit abstracts here; bit.ly/ALAA2025

Ever wondered what’s up in the Chagos Archipelago? We were curious, so we asked @djag2.bsky.social to explain it all - on Case in Point podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...

New On The Reg podcast with @drjd.bsky.social is up for all your Christmas listening needs! onthereg.buzzsprout.com/1187141/epis...

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As we sink slowly into mid December… a reminder that we welcome your submissions on Australian legal issues. See our guidelines- shorter pieces and less footnotes are preferred. Got some summer writing planned? Give us a look 👇🏽👇🏻 #Auslaw #AccessToJustice #Law journals.sagepub.com/home/alj

“I keep meeting people who are extremely burned out. I meet them so often that I’m beginning to think burnout is something that exists by design” @patrickfreyne.bsky.social on toxic productivity & the myths of meritocracy. [hint: this is not a bug, it’s a feature]

The Australian Legal Academic Starter Pack: ICYMI #AusLaw #Law #LegalEd go.bsky.app/A9tXyKu

In our latest Case in Point @lynetterussell.bsky.social takes us to 1839 Melbourne, a fledgling frontier town, rife with conflict. The arrival of two Palawa men, Tunnerminnerwait & Maulboyheener, sparks a chain of events leading to a brutal execution. #AusLaw podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...

Delighted to see the @altlj.bsky.social here! No offence to the other August law journals, but this is my personal favourite. If you don’t know it, it’s worth a look - and a follow.

Welcome @drpetaspyrou.bsky.social!

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Call for papers - the Routledge Handbook of Doctor Who call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/12/...

"2. You will then be urged to personalize your instruction, even though the AI-in-education course you are taking involves nothing remotely resembling personalization Relish the irony."

More AI Roast-Bots please: “Like a constitutional law textbook that just chugged a double espresso—bright, bold, and ready to make some noise.” blueskyroast.com/roast/drmcas... ping @thesiswhisperer.bsky.social

The Castan Centre appeared this morning at the Senate Legal & Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee’s Inquiry into the Criminal Code (Hate Crimes) Amendment Bill 2024. See our submission here: www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar... @drmcastan.bsky.social @ronlisifris.bsky.social #Auslaw #HumanRights

Day 1 of 10 Days to Donate in December ahead of #HumanRightsDay The National Justice Project has been holding the Australian Government to account for the harsh treatment refugee families and asylum seekers endured in offshore detention. Help us #FinishTheFight at bit.ly/4fRDHan

Professor Emerita Anne Twomey explains the Social Media Minimum Age law. She discusses privacy issues re verification of the identity of social media users & if the law breaches the implied freedom of political communication. #AusLaw Notably 7k views & 500+ comments! youtu.be/moiV8aDWC_o?...

Another episode of denial and erasure, this repeal diminishes Queensland and Australia’s standing in the world; another betrayal in the relationship with First Peoples of this land. What a disgrace. #AusLaw

I saw a thread by in Archaeology that pulled together all Starter Packs into one handy thread for new people joining. Not sure if it's been done for Law yet, so thought I'd get a thread going with a few that I've come across. Please do share & add any other Starter Packs that I've missed.

It’s #FollowFriday! Looking for #AusLaw, #TechLaw and #HumanRights? Follow @mslods.bsky.social #FF

Probably time to share this again - hit reply if you'd like to be added (or removed)! #academiclaw #lawyers #legalethics #regulation go.bsky.app/JUjeAQX

Qld govt reneges on its obligations to Children in international law, esp Convention on the Rights of the Child, OPCAT, and its own Human Rights Act. Everything is fine.

The UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery has found migrant workers in Australia are facing "disturbing" patterns of exploitation www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Woop woop. New toolkit from TEQSA just dropped on GenAI strategies for Australian higher education: www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resou...

I am outraged by the three immigration bills being rushed through Australia's Parliament. Here I explain why womensagenda.com.au/latest/confi...

Either way, and apart from the substance of the amendment, this process is bad governance.

The new Qld govt appears to be using omnibus legislation to repeal the truthtelling and treaty body, without committee oversight. I think it was Fitzgerald who recommended against omnibus bills to make substantive change. And he found committee system imperative in the unicameral parli.

Yes indeed. Here is the repeal mechanism of the Path to Treaty Act.

Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference! The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University. The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’. Please re-post!

Can you own a dead body? Associate Professor Marc Trabsky tells a strange story from 1868 that holds the key to the law of ownership of the human body and body parts. podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c... #podcast #AusLaw

The committee reviewing the Social Media Minimum Age Bill recommends the bill be passed, that there be consultation with young people and that there be appropriate consultation on all rule making associated with the bill. See details 👇🏽👇🏽 #AusLaw #Privacy #SocialMediaLaw

I have produced a #StarterPack for people working on #childrensrights internationally, regionally and nationally. If you're not included and work in the area, that is solely down to my Bluesky incompetence - please just let me know and I will add you. go.bsky.app/FE9fYz3 #childrights #UNCRC

I’m back in @theconversation.bsky.social on possible constitutional problems with the social media minimum age bill: theconversation.com/banning-unde...

This bill may well fall foul of the implied freedom of political communication by cutting children out of large parts of social media conversation.

How starter packs work bsky.social/about/blog/0...