I'm delighted to share "Place-Based Teaching of IHL: Field-Notes from Atlantic Canada", out today in Opinio Juris. It discusses our program to teach the law of detention and internment through a WW2 era internment camp a short drive from the UNB Faculty of Law.
opiniojuris.org/2025/12/19/p...
Can the tort of negligence be stretched to address the challenges of climate change? #climatelitigation
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...
Thanks Marina!!
Delighted to share a photo of some freshly bound pages, just dropped at the Cambridge student registry.
My new article "Humanitarians and Their Law(s): A Comprehensive Inquiry" is now out in @yearbookofihl.bsky.social. Delighted to be in this latest volume, focused on humanitarian action.
@gatescambridge.bsky.social @cambridgelaw.bsky.social @unbresearch.bsky.social
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
An important read from my always brilliant supervisor Eyal Benvenisti.
Out Thursday: There’s prospects of a trial but has anything happened for alleged victims since the shocking allegations of war crimes by Australian SAS soldiers in Afghanistan came to light?
We examine what—if any—justice has been delivered for Afghan survivors.
We're hiring at UNB Law!
Two of these positions will fill teaching needs in 1L criminal Law.
The other position will fill upper-year teaching needs (e.g. business law, environmental law, workplace law, maritime Law, remedies, and
conflicts).
www.unb.ca/hr/_assets/d...
Today in my "Law of Disasters and Emergency" seminar, students are drafting hazard and vulnerability assessments for their mock firms.
We'll build over the semester to a novel disaster that the class has to "lawyer" their way through.
Haha, right?!
Toward a Universal Treaty on ‘Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters’
By Giulio Bartolini
www.ejiltalk.org/toward-a-uni...
Icicles hanging over snowy rooftops midday.
Thanks for the prompt John, that's excellent! I've just added to the thread with a photo with alt text. Wonderful Bluesky has this feature!
Icicles hanging over snowy rooftops.
how I love this season.
Acadia University (in Wolfville, NS) is hiring for a tenure stream appointment in their Law & Society Program. Application deadline is January 24, 2025.
"Expertise in Indigenous law, race and law, or critical approaches to criminal law and justice are preferred."
www2.acadiau.ca/files/files/...
A little write-up on our growing international law group at the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law.
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
I am very pleased to share the @h-diplo.bsky.social Roundtable of _Catastrophic Diplomacy_. Thanks to Jana Lipman, @kevinkosullivan.bsky.social, Davide Rodogno, Ian Seavey, @laurenfturek.bsky.social, Shoon Murray, and Megan Black for their generous reviews! networks.h-net.org/group/discus...
Prince Charles with Johnny Cash.
Local New Brunswick history...that time King Charles met Johnny Cash in a Fredericton locker room
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Don't get me wrong, it's a banger! But I tend to prefer my eurodance after my morning coffee.
Toddler certainly thought so 😅
And the moment will arrive in the unseemly hours one morning...
While your laptop glows with end of term lecture prep...
And toddler's hurling bananas at the wall...
and the algorithms' decided on rousing Cotton Eye Joe...
That you'll realize...you don't feel imposter syndrome anymore.
For those in Cambridge, Hoi Kong is not to be missed. Looks excellent!
Thanks Basak!
Rainbow carrot harvest in a big pile.
Last harvest of the year.
Sleep tight vegetable bed, thanks for all the carrots.
Thanks for the alt text reminder Charlotte!
Thanks Liz, reposting.
Excellent
Castelli espressos are pretty nice and reflective 👌🏻
Thanks Santiago, sounds great. I'd be delighted to be added.
