Pacific Elders Voice: "As a member of the [Pacific Islands] Forum, Australia’s actions are in sharp contradiction to its platitudes around caring for the Pacific ‘family.’ The Woodside project is a demonstration of Australia’s glaring disconnect between rhetoric and action."

Congratulations to Rapoport Center co-director @karengle.bsky.social for her new publication, Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court! Professor Engle’s work, published in the Cambridge Elements series, is available free for the next week. Read it here: cup.org/3FqfvPp

“She says the early weeks of the re-elected Albanese government have led to “a reassessment of how to engage, because what we’ve been doing with Labor in the last couple of years, it’s hard to see how it’s working” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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:

⚡️ ⚖️ Precedent-setting #climatelitigation victory this morning in #SaulvsRWE 🙌 🎉 A victory for #climatejustice and corporate accountability 🧵🧑‍⚖️ A short thread to unpack the key legal principles reaffirmed by the judges of the Higher Court of Hamm 🇩🇪 ⬇️ 1/8

More than ten years worth of Australia’s emissions in a single facility for export. There is nothing that the Labor party could do this term - or ever - that could bring it back from the impact of this decision for climate harms. Absolutely evil.

🚨 Australia’s new federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has said he intends to approve a forty-year extension to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project. With his first significant decision set to fuel almost four billion tonnes of greenhouse gas. More here: envirojustice.org.au/press-releas...

I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad. What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social. I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Loved celebrating 3 books focused on queer approaches to law this evening- Queer Judgemnts, & my 2 edited books with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social on queering int law! Thanks @dsheikh.bsky.social, @senthorun.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social & others for presenting & all who joined us there or online

A queer delight to celebrate queer legal scholarship today in Melbourne & launch our family of books: Queer Judgments, Queer Engagements with International Law, & Queer Encounters with International Law. @claerwen.bsky.social @senthorun.bsky.social @juliadehm.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social 🌈🎓

The first episode of our podcast with @prof-mac.bsky.social 'Law at the End of the World' is now available on Spotify. In this episode we are joined by the fabulous @juliadehm.bsky.social who talks about her research, methodology, collaboration, building community, & attempting to find balance.

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 👇

Join us next Tuesday for a talk by @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on her forthcoming book, "The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law"

Don't forget to register for Prof Sigrid Boysen's lecture on 'Postcolonial Constellations:Natural Resources and Modern International Law's next Tuesday 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

TODAY 👇🏼

My chapter, with Prof Vivien Holmes, on the legal profession and climate change is now live as part of @juliadehm.bsky.social et al's new textbook, Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System at www.latrobe.edu.au/library/open..., here's a short taster...

This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...

Delighted to share that Tranche 2 of the #openaccess book "Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System" edited by Julia Dehm, Nicole Graham, Zoe Nay is now out! www.latrobe.edu.au/library/open...

very excited about these conversations - join us!

Warm welcome to join a new reading group on "Making and Unmaking Natural Resources" convened by Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social and myself. 10am AEDT Tuesdays fortnightly from 11 March 2025, via Zoom (with winter break), email for link and readings! lawecologypolitics.com/making-and-u...

We look forward to receiving your submission. #legaled

To support the mainstreaming of climate change considerations in legal education we are developing a novel text: Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer – Educators’ Companion, edited by Julia Dehm, Kate Galloway, Nicole Graham and Zoe Nay (La Trobe eBureau, forthcoming)

Delighted to share a new online lectures series on "Resource Struggles and International Law" convened by Julia Dehm and Caitlin Murphy. It seeks to foster interdisciplinary and historical discussions about how international law both shapes, and is shaped by, struggles over natural resources.

We are collecting syllabi - courses that legal educators have prepared that integrate climate content! Write to me if you have something to share

As part of our ongoing work to support legal educators to mainstream climate change considerations in legal education we’re collecting law subject syllabi to create a resource ‘bank’ for legal educators. Have you got a syllabi you’d be happy to share? climateconsciouslawyers.com/syllabi/

"I see opening coal mines as a crime. This is my message on the Australian government's decision to approve 3 new coal mines." - Rabweena Ieete, #climate change activist, Kiribati The Environment Minister has just approved 3 new mine expansions – Caval Ridge, Boggabri mine & Lake Vermont #auspol

Well, well. Taking out the trash. @tanyaplibersekmp.bsky.social just approved three coal mines big enough to swallow Sydney. @australiainstitute.org.au epbcpublicportal.environment.gov.au/all-notices/ pic.twitter.com/vOeHqrqnVd

Palestine was represented by Nilüfer Oral, Co-Chair of the International Law Commission Study Group on Sea-Level Rise, and Kate Mackintosh, deputy chair of the Independent Expert Panel for the Legal Definition of Ecocide. Powerhouses. Worth a watch. webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1u...

🚨 A recent meta-study looked at carbon credits issued by 2,346 carbon projects. 🚨 That's almost one billion, or 20% of all carbon credits. 🚨 And found that 84% of them are junk credits. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/84-of-carb...

Really powerful submissions from the Cook Islands in the ICJ climate change AO hearing foregrounding the need for climate reparations to consider colonialism, racial capitalism and intersectional inequalities webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1e...

Really powerful submissions by the State of Palestine in the ICJ climate change advisory opinion hearings highlighting the links between war, militarism, occupation and climate catastrophe

🇦🇺Future Fund invests $1bn in arms manufacturers & $100million in companies that contribute to the maintenance, development & consolidation of Israel's illegal settlements. Proposed legislation seeks to prohibit this & implement 🇦🇺 int law obligations www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

"Greenpeace Australia Pacific’s general counsel, Katrina Bullock, said Australia’s submissions “completely undermined its Pacific neighbours” and its position was “fundamentally flawed”. amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.theg...

The introduction to our series of "Law & the Inhuman" now out on @critlegthinking! The series comes out of a workshop held at @TilburgU. Thanks to all our wonderful speakers and esp co-conbeners Marie Petersmann, Kathleen Birrell & @Afshin Akhtar-Khavari criticallegalthinking.com/2024/09/12/law

We are excited to share the publication of a new open access book, Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System, edited by Julia Dehm, Nicole Graham and Zoe Nay, published by La Trobe eBureau www.latrobe.edu.au/library/open...

Open Letter from over 75 international legal scholars calling on🇦🇺govt to take urgent action to avoid the risk of being complicit in violations of the Genocide Convention after ICJ ruling on Israel's military operations in Gaza @overlandjournal.bsky.social overland.org.au/2024/02/open...

"Symposium on Green Deals and Justice: A Planetary Green New Deal" by @juliadehm.bsky.social & Usha Natarajan. www.afronomicslaw.org/category/ana...

In November @juliadehm.bsky.social reflected on the Waratah Coal litigation. In 2022 the Queensland Land Court recommended refusal of a mining lease on human rights grounds. Clive Palmer’s company is now seeking damages under a free trade agreement for the refusal. verfassungsblog.de/undermining-...

Australia is confronted with three multi-billion dollar investment treaty claims from a mining company. JULIA DEHM (@juliadehm.bsky.social) on coal, climate change & human rights - and how international investment arbitration is undermining the energy transition. verfassungsblog.de/undermining-...

“Waratah Coal v Youth Verdict is thus both an important international precedent about coal, climate change and human rights, but also an important warning about how international arbitration risks undermining urgent and just energy transition.” @juliadehm.bsky.social

Expert explainer on the #Voice: the fossil-fueled Atlas network's campaign against constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians by Dr Jeremy Walker www.referendum-voice.com.au/ee8---walker...

"Australia’s diplomacy and foreign policy is designed to either secure ongoing markets for our gas and coal or to obstruct the climate ambition of others so those markets are not undermined." New from me in The Saturday Paper. 📰 > www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...