Reminder that @ishtip.bsky.social is now calling for papers for the 17th annual workshop: this year hosted by the University of São Paulo on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy', 25-26 June 2026.
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
if this happens, it will be the biggest international law news in decades and will be immediately followed by several of the hardest fought sets of litigation you have ever seen. time to stop ignoring tax
Thank you @rlopez.bsky.social for this kind and generous review and for sharing your sister’s story! I’m so pleased to hear of her joy and that you’ve been able to share in it!
Published today—at the start of Transgender Awareness Week—in the American Journal of International Law, my new book review, "International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?" arrives at a moment that feels both personal and profound.
Now up at @ssrn.bsky.social : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Together with @wanshucong.bsky.social we put together a symposium on the 20th anniversary of Anghie's pathbreaking Imperialism, Sovereignty and the Making of IL. Our introduction is here: cil.nus.edu.sg/blog/symposi.... Terrific contributions to come including a generous response by Prof. Anghie.
There has been-ahem-a lot going on in international law. in this brief chapter, I tried to take stock of the past two years and what they mean for critical IL. TL;DR: the old moves REALLY don't work anymore: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Thank you to all those who participated for making it such a warm, supportive and constructive space. And a huge thanks to ANZSIL and IILAH for supporting the event!
Traversing topics from Gaza and international law’s complicity in (neo)colonial and patriarchal structures to how international courts might better reflect feminist, queer and eco-centred perspectives, I learnt so much
I had such a wonderful time over the past few days convening the @anzsilgsil.bsky.social
workshop at Melbourne Law School on Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene and Authoritarian Capitalism with my dear friend @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social
Academic selfie: day 2 of the @anzsilgsil.bsky.social workshop is done edition
Academic selfie: day one of the @anzsilgsil.bsky.social workshop on Feminism in the time of Atrocity, Anthropocene and Authoritarian Capitalism is done, but I was too busy talking to people to remember to take a selfie with the wonderful people in attendance edition
This is a super gorgeous photo though!
On the eve of another workshop I’m organising with my comrade @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, it is delightful to read through this warm and generous review of the edited books that emerged from our last one - by the amazing @staceyhenderson.bsky.social! To many more queer & feminist conversations!
We are still open to submissions for our upcoming special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.”
Please share this call for papers with anyone you think interested. The deadline for abstracts is Friday 31st October.
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The next piece in our Special Issue on abolition and International Criminal Law is now out: Martin Clark on the relationships between domestic and international abolitions: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
In our latest episode, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social speaks with Ardi Imseis about the recent recognition of Palestine by western states and the history of the UN’s “rule by law” in relation to Palestine and the construction of its legal subalternity. #CalledToTheBar
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Part time research assistant position in Melbourne working with the incomparable Jordy Silverstein on statelessness, migration, and intergenerational memory! unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/UoM_Ex...
An important and wide-ranging interview with Nahed Samour on international law and Palestine, among other things on the role of law and narrative, on the relation between positivism and critique, and on transnational resistance: academic.oup.com/lril/advance...
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Delighted to have my work on affective tension monitoring and the internal security apparatus accepted in Social and Legal Studies. This is the pre-print version. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Naww that’s so nice to hear! Looking forward to having you there!!
Registrations are now open for our workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism'! The workshop will be hybrid and take place on 30 & 31 October at Melbourne Law School. See the draft program: drive.google.com/file/d/1YbYn...
I’m really looking forward to this workshop that I’m co-organising with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social! If you’d like to join us online, register here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/feminist-a... or get in touch to join in person (limited spots available)
Some gifts are so thoughtful that you can't express how much you appreciate them. Many thanks to @matteobassetti.bsky.social for this watercolour impression of my sky pirate microstate idea. Even if you can't get it from the sketchbook knowing it exists warms my heart 🥰
Wrote this piece on the need to recognise gendered oppression - in all its forms - as always the path to #tyranny.
Gendered domination is alway present but failing to confront that = also failing to see the rapid return to patriarchy as the first sign of authoritarianism
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Call for Papers: Special Issue of Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope Amidst continuing backlash against trans rights, recognition and inclusion, two recent decisions from the UK have substantially impacted not only trans people’s legal status but also legal and social narratives of sex, gender and identity. The narrative that trans inclusion has a chilling effect on the rights of others, particularly women, has been adopted uncritically by both the UK Supreme Court in For Women Scotland and the Office for Students in its finding that the University of Sussex’s trans-inclusion policy had a chilling effect on free speech. These cases highlight a backlash that has been ongoing for some time, and sparks debates and fear of what may lie in the near future for trans people and kin, as well as other gender-variant persons, not only in the UK, but across jurisdictions and in a global perspective. The discourse of the ‘gender critical’ movement is splintering both the feminist and LGBT+ movements globally, with some aligning politically with the Far- and Christian Right against trans rights, adopting their terminology of ‘gender ideology’ and potentially posing a wider threat to sexual and reproductive rights. While this a difficult situation for trans people, kin and allies, this special issue seeks to emphasise that legal battles – including battles (temporarily) lost – are also an opportunity to seek to reinforce old alliances and to form new ones, to find new legal frontiers and imaginaries, to reinforce the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of legal arguments as well as intergenerational memory of what feminist legal work is, has been and should be about. How, we ask, do these decisions (and those like them globally) reflect and reproduce structures of coloniality, heteronormativity and cisnormativity? What do these decisions add to critiques of legal feminism? What would be construct…
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We are inviting papers for our special issue, “Feminist Responses to the Regression of Trans Rights: Strategies, Alliances, Hope.” The issue will be dedicated to trans-inclusive feminist legal analysis that addresses attacks on trans rights & lives.
Details below. Please share.
A screenshot of the article’s abstract, entitled “The shifting frames of the Council of Europe: from totalitarianism to authoritarianism, from populism to democratic backsliding”
Another article from our special issue on frames of human rights is out: @esrademir.bsky.social’s fantastic piece on oppositional frames, analysing how concepts like authoritarianism and populism are used and what this tells us about the Council of Europe itself
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The first piece in our Special Issue on ICL & abolition is out! It is an incredible essay by @disposablehuman.bsky.social & @debbiekilroy.bsky.social on 'the brutal realities of incarceration, particularly for Indigenous women in Australia.' Open Access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Reminder that applications for this position close this Friday!
(Although somehow at one point I accidentally say ICC instead of ICJ, which is a pet peeve of mine and I have no idea how it happened. Don’t judge me 😬)
