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Francisco J. Quintana @fjquintana.com · 7d

What does de-dollarisation mean in practice? How does it relate to global law and governance?

My article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law' is now out in JIEL. I present dollar dominance and de-dollarisation as competing legal institutions.

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Dollar dominance, de-dollarization, and international law

Abstract. Recent proposals to seize Russian Central Bank assets expose how little international lawyers have engaged with the intensifying competition over

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Economy & Society @econsocjournal.bsky.social · 15d

In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open.
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!

files.taylorandfrancis.com

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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · 7d

There's a lot going on in the world, so you may have missed the announcement that next week (6-8 October) the ICJ will hold oral hearings in the advisory proceedings on the right to strike. 20 states and 5 international organisations are due to participate.
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 9d

I'm giving a talk on "After Patent Republic?"
on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online,
in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities.

It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series.

Everyone welcome.

Abstract and registration:

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: After Patent Republic - Hyo Yoon Kang. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

What comes after ‘Patent Republic’? In his 2006 article, Mario Biagioli showed how the modern U.S. patent law system, with its development of examination, filing, and institutional bureaucracy, was cl...

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Law and Political Economy in Europe @lpeineurope.bsky.social · 14d

We know we haven’t been very active here, but rest assured we are active in real life!

Save the date for the LPE in Europe Summer Academy 2026: 10-12 June, University of Glasgow.

Call for applications will follow!

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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 14d

🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨

The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin

Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!

criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...

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Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · 21d

wonderful, wish I could join you all

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · 21d

Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism.
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...

Poster of Gillian Rose: history, Marxism, and the Turn to Law. 3 December 2025, University of Warwick. With Jessica Feely, Will Spendlove, Tarik Kochi, Adrian Wilding, Chris O'kane, Nadia Bou Ali and the organiser, Rosie Woodhouse.

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Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · 22d

huge congratulations to you both! look forward to hearing more about the project

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 26d

I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...

Defining Away Palestine

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Transition Security Project @transitionsec.bsky.social · 28d

🚨 ONLINE EVENT

Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.

Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social

📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL

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Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · 28d

Tonight’s Wheelwright Lecture. Raewyn Connell with a masterclass in dissecting three structural tensions producing university crises, and how to begin addressing each of them. The talk ended with Tagore’s university - as a meeting place of worlds, built collectively, under the trees.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · Sep 8

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN

Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.

A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

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Senthorun S. Raj @senthorun.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s lovely to be in Canberra this month as a visiting fellow at the ANU Law School. On Thursday 18th September, I’ll be presenting some of the work from my new book which explores emotions and conflicts over LGBT rights. Come along if you’re around! Details here: law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve... 🌈🎓

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · Sep 4

Since our very first issue Meanjin and Overland have been comrades, mates, rivals, and drinking buddies. The UMP board’s decision is a shockingly myopic act of cultural vandalism which will grievously harm the Australian literary community.

The Egg, a cricket trophy awarded to the winners of Overland vs Meanjin matches, alongside a copy of Jim Davidson's Emperor in Lilliput, the book about magazine founding editors Clem Christesen and Stephen Murray-Smith.

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Chris @chrismroberts.bsky.social · Sep 1

Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present

17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location)

Deadline 31 October 2025

www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · Aug 28

Trump just purported to abolish the Patent Office union on the grounds that the PTO is a national security agency

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Jessica Whyte @jessicawhyte.bsky.social · Aug 27

‘I’m not saying it’s not a tragedy’ says Jack Lew, while defending Israel’s killing of ‘children of Hamas fighters’. The language of tragedy has become the refuge of all those who want to obscure agency and responsibility, as if Palestinians are simply fated to die.

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Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · Aug 20

it’s a soggy Sydney sojourn

Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · Aug 20

thrilled, delighted etc to be in Sydney this month for the most rain this city has seen since 1858. get in touch if you want to have coffee and know of somewhere dry

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Australian Feminist Law Journal @aflj.bsky.social · Aug 18

The AFLJ is looking for a Publication and Media Support Officer to assist with its copyediting, outreach and engagement activities! Are you a Melbourne-based graduate researcher with an interest in feminism and law? This position could be perfect for you! drive.google.com/file/d/16z3u...

Publication and Media Support Officer (AFLJ) Position Description.pdf

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Aug 11

Many progressives think Open Science is a good thing but it has an ambiguous stance re IP.

Here is @kathybowrey.bsky.social's critical intellectual property scholarship's angle on Open Science on @ishtip.bsky.social youtube page.

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Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · Aug 11

Our online seminar with Prof @kathybowrey.bsky.social on"Open Science's Progressive Potential. A Critical IP Perspective" is on youtube now, in which she diagnoses the potential and limitations of Open Science in relation to IP & other proprietary practices.

More online seminars to come in autumn!

Open Science’s progressive potential. A critical IP perspective, Seminar ISHTIP 2025

YouTube video by ISHTIP Video

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Holly Cullen @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · Aug 8

Important, but probably under most people's radar:
The Inter American Court of Human Rights has issued an advisory opinion on care work, both paid and unpaid (currently only available in Spanish).
@minmaxsunt.bsky.social - this will be of interest to you, I think.

Inter American Court of Human Rights - Advisory Opinion 31 of 2025

Opinión Consultiva OC-31-2025

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Erik Baker @erikmbaker.bsky.social · Aug 7

I have a new paper in History of Political Economy that is now available to read for free online. It's about what we can and can't learn from studying – and criticizing – economics using the methods of the history of science. read.dukeupress.edu/hope/article...

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Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social · Aug 6

very much enjoyed speaking to the international law clinic at ANU today about paths for legal advocacy in relation to climate, including scientific and technological cooperation; geoengineering and the law; and remedies and structural reparations in the ICJ’s recent advisory opinion.

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