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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 4d

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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54. Recognition, the United Nations and the Question of Palestine

In this episode, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Professor Ardi Imseis (Queen’s Law School, Canada) for a timely conversation about international law, the United Nations, and the long struggle for

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · 5d

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...

Research Associate

Role type: Part-Time (0.2 FTE) Fixed-Term for 3 years Faculty: Melbourne Law School Salary: Level A $85,555.00 - $116,094.00 p.a. plus 17% super  Provide vital research support to an ARC Future Fellow...

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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 6d

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...

International law, populism and Palestine: an interview with Nahed Samour

In this interview, Dr Richard Joyce and Professor Sundhya Pahuja are joined by German-Palestinian international legal scholar, Dr Nahed Samour, currently b

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · 6d

Lol

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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 8d

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....

Public Order and the Internal Security Apparatus: Affective Tension Monitoring as Police Epistemology

Farmer develops the concept of the civil order to help understand the function of criminal law, but civil order is a particularly capacious concept. In this art

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · 8d

Naww that’s so nice to hear! Looking forward to having you there!!

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ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality & International Law Interest Group @anzsilgsil.bsky.social · 8d

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...

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · 8d

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)

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 11d

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 🥰

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Aoife O'Donoghue @aoifemod.bsky.social · 15d

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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Power, Gender and Tyranny in Our Time - Doing Feminist Legal Work

While writing my monograph On Tyranny and the Global Legal Order, the frequent appearance of gender struck me. But, more startling, how little remarked upon

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Feminist Legal Studies @flsjournal.bsky.social · 16d

📣🏳️‍⚧️ Call for Papers

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.

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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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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · 21d

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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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”

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Sophie Rigney @sophiejrigney.bsky.social · 21d

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....

A Prison is a Prison is a Prison

This essay reflects on the brutal realities of incarceration, particularly for Indigenous women in Australia. It begins with the tragic death of Selesa Tafaifa, who was killed in custody, highlight...

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · 28d

Reminder that applications for this position close this Friday!

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...

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · 28d

(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 😬)

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · 28d

Pleased to have participated in a radio interview with Tess Matthews on yesterday’s episode of Done by Law on 3CR about the history and future of international law. If you’re interested, you can listen here: www.3cr.org.au/donebylaw

Done By Law

DONE BY LAW is grassroots radio for social justice on community radio station 3CR in Melbourne, Australia. We have been on the air since 1980, giving listeners our unique and irreverent take on curren...

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · 29d

I had a blast talking about to my old friend and mentor Rob McLaughlin and the phenomenal @alonso-gd.bsky.social about why sinking random "drug" vessels is lawless AF

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 29d

A US kinetic strike on a suspected drug boat, lawful self-defence or utterly lawless? (No prizes for guessing.) Join @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, Rob McLaughlin & @alonso-gd.bsky.social on #CalledToTheBar as they unpack law & blurred lines in the “war on drugs/terror.” soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

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In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Professor Rob McLaughlin and Dr Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg to unpack a troubling event:

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Australian Feminist Law Journal @aflj.bsky.social · Aug 28

🌻Read Gozde Turan's new article, 'Sexual and Gender Based Violence Only for the ‘Others’? A fantastic contribution to the discourse around sexual and gender-based crimes in conflict.

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Sexual and Gender Based Violence Only for the ‘Others’? The Islamic State against Muslim Women

This article is an inquiry into the limits of international criminal law (ICL) to pursue feminist goals. It argues that international criminal courts and tribunals have failed to prosecute intra-gr...

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Australian Feminist Law Journal @aflj.bsky.social · Aug 28

✨ Read the new paper from Maksim Lavrik, in which the author argues that the subordination of environmental protection to the necessities of economic development has similarities with the long history of women’s oppression. Interesting and timely.

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Translation of Consent from Gender and Feminist Studies to Biodiversity Law

Global biodiversity loss requires an assessment of the effectiveness of the existing legal frameworks and the construction of new ones when needed. The subordination of environmental protection to ...

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Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · Aug 22

Join us for our mostly quirky and fun but sometimes serious 50th episode with the best colleagues an accidental podcaster could ask for

Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · Aug 22

50 episodes of #CalledToTheBar! 🥂 Join me, @drnajimagi.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social as we take your questions on setting up your own state, PCIJ judges, treaties & who plays us in the Netflix series.
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50. Your international law questions answered!

Fifty episodes in, and we’re still going strong (and still without footnotes). In this special milestone edition of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Douglas Guilfoyle (Professor

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Barrie Shannon @barrieshannon.com · Aug 21

The Australian Queer Archives are offering a brand new Research Fellowship - up to $5000 to assist with the expenses of a trip to AQuA to conduct a project on Australian queer history. Applications are due September 1. 🌈🎓

Details are here: queerarchives.org.au/posts/latest...

AQuA Research Fellowship - AQuA

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Australian Feminist Law Journal is looking for a Publication and Media Support Officer. If you are a Melbourne-based graduate researcher with an interest in feminism and law, consider joining our team!

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...

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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...

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · Aug 14

So good catching up with my @anzsilgsil.bsky.social comrade @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social and the lovely Melissa!

Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · Aug 14

Academic selfie: GSIL planning and general catch up with the exceptional @claerwen.bsky.social edition

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Claerwen O’Hara @claerwen.bsky.social · Aug 14

It was so nice seeing you both!

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