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Douglas Guilfoyle
@djag2.bsky.social
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Professor of International Law and Security, UNSW Canberra. ARC Future Fellow. International law & maritime security. Posting in a personal capacity. He/him.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 9h
Booooo!

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 15h
Redpath Shoes, Canberra. The brand is Pikolinos.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 1d
Academic selfie: happy Doctor Who Day for yesterday to all who celebrate, and shoes.

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Dr Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 1d
UWA Law School is hiring! Lvl B is only open to applicants with working rights in #AUS. Applications close 3 December 2025. Start date negotiable. (I encourage #intLaw people to apply! Ping @anzsil.org) #jobs #jobFairy #academia #lecturer #higherEd external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 1d
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 3d
Inside the fascinating world of eel trafficking and the serious question of invisible criminal commodities!

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Invisible Criminal Commodities in the Caribbean | Center for International Maritime Security
Dr. Ian Ralby, Dr. David Soud, and Sophie Podrog On 7 July 2021, Jovenel Moïse, the President of Haiti, was assassinated in his own bedroom, sending Haiti into a constitutional crisis from which it ha...
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 4d
“Doug, you’re looking fine as hell tonight.” The bar staff at my local really are charming.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 4d
The end of the week in academic selfies: TGIF!

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 6d
I am just an academic International lawyer, standing in front of every other discipline, begging them not to use the word “sovereignty“ without defining it.
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 6d
How should international lawyers think about methodology, feminist critique, & mounting global crises? 🌍⚖️ Join the Called to the Bar Newcastle & Manchester roadshow, hosted by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social as we explore new ways of understanding a world in transition.

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58. The Newcastle and Manchester Roadshow: Methodology, Feminism, and the End of the World
Play 58. The Newcastle and Manchester Roadshow: Methodology, Feminism, and the End of the World by Called to the Bar - International Law over Drinks on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks...
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 8d
No meetings, mostly a (too rare) writing day. So I rocked up to the office in an eighth Doctor adjacent outfit. (It’s got to the point where I can now come into work in a home-made green velvet frock coat and my colleagues don’t even comment.)

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 11d
Aha, so I’m either not a person or not - for sartorial purposes - present in Australia. Take your pick. 😉

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 11d
Academic selfie at 50

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 12d
… maybe.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 12d
Is there any occasion when a man over 35 in full possession of his senses should wear a polo shirt?

Have the courage to commit to a T-shirt or short sleeve shirt, none of these half measures!

#pointlessfashionopinions

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 12d
The week so far in academic selfies

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 16d
I have painstakingly and literally unpicked my mistake. Happily, in fixing my original mistake I’ve now made a much worse mistake. Good thing I’m working with velvet, which really loves being reworked and can take a lot of punishment. (It cannot.) #sewing

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 17d
I am chagrined to report that, once again, the process of learning from my mistakes – involves making mistakes. #sewing

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 19d
Frank’s Beach, solitude. End of a lovely day.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 19d
That is, it might look "piratical" but it's actually both worse and different, and thus is a question of state responsibility or aggression - precisely because it was done by a government vessel acting on orders.

Why do people find this so hard?

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 19d
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social a quote on warships can't be pirates:

G Fitzmaurice: ‘Acts of a piratical character committed by warships on superior orders were *more than acts of piracy*, and might constitute aggression or an act of war engaging the responsibility of the flag State’ [1955] I YBILC 56.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 20d
Writing retreat: view at the end of Day 2, and an echidna!

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 20d
I am writing once again on the codification of the law of piracy, and discovering - once again - why everyone who writes on the subject winds up sounding either tetchy or a bit crazed.

@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social discuss why the subject provokes strong reactions here:

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42. Piracy and Madness
What is it about piracy that causes international lawyers to lose all common sense? This week, in a twist on our “what everyone gets wrong about...” series, Juliette McIntyre talks to Douglas Guilfoyl
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 20d
Barlings Beach: not a bad setting for a short writing retreat.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 25d
Academic selfie: it’s been a week, time to head home.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 25d
What did the ICJ say in its new UNRWA Opinion? ⚖️Join Juliette McIntyre & Tamer Morris as they unpack Israel’s obligations, what this means for UN agencies working in occupied Palestine, the future of the UN ... and K-Pop Demon Hunters analogies. #CalledToTheBar

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57. The UNRWA Opinion: The ICJ, the future of the UN system and ... K-Pop Demon Hunters?
The UNRWA Opinion: The ICJ, the future of the UN system and ... K-Pop Demon Hunters? In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Juliette McIntyre (University of Sout
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Asymmetrical Haircuts @asymmetricalh.bsky.social · 26d
Out Now!
In recent weeks the US has struck boats of suspected drug traffickers in intl waters: Venezuela, Colombia & Mexico.
@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @alonso-gd.bsky.social run us through the basics of what constitutes an international armed conflict
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Episode 146 – When Is It A War? with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg
With the last weeks of U.S. strikes on alleged drug dealer boats and saying they are in “a non-international armed conflict” with drug cartels, we ask ‘when is war’ and whet…
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 26d
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oy, oy, oy!

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 26d
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, Reviewer Two looked upon my works and I despair.
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, I live on the second floor, I live upstairs from you, yes I think you’ve seen me before
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My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. James Ozymandias, King of Kings.

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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 26d
Academic selfie: remember how you dress sends a message not only about who you are but who you want to be! (Dress for the job you want!) My message is:

… kindly Edwardian time traveller.