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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · 10d

We're hosting our final project event on 29 Sept.

Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law

W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us
@amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · 12d

Check out the recent episode of the Save Our Sperrins podcast in conversation with Amy Strecker:
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#No.13 Law, Land, and Justice: Dr Amy Strecker on the Sperrins | The Sperrins Podcast

In this episode, I speak with Dr Amy Strecker, Associate Professor at the Sutherland School of Law in UCD and one of the volunteer expert witnesses supporting the Public Inquiry into goldmining in the...

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · 27d

Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Aug 14

📣 New journal article by @amandabyer.bsky.social just published!

'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)

Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...

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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · May 8

"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law.

If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."

- Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · May 2

Thanks to @owenmcintyre.bsky.social and @ucc.ie Law for hosting another superb conference on Law and the Environment this year. We were delighted with the opportunity to present a project panel + discuss @property-injustice.bsky.social research with the other delegates. Go raibh maith agaibh go leir

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Christie Nicoson @cjnicoson.bsky.social · Apr 23

Building care-full futures requires ways of living that break the norms - "we need to practice these ways of being... not wait for them to appear at the end of the road"🌱Check out a chapter with the amazing @claradf.bsky.social 🐌 in Post-Growth Future(s) ipe.hr/wp-content/u...

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Apr 16

Excited to see our own @amandabyer.bsky.social‬'s book (with over 10 000 downloads) at #slsa2025. Thank you to @slsauk.bsky.social for another excellent and intellectually stimulating array of socio-legal topics. Download Byer's book (open access) at
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Environmental Law and Justice (ELAJ) @elaj-ucd.bsky.social · Apr 10

"Climate change is a gender issue" writes @cjnicoson.bsky.social. Read more at elajucd.com/2025/03/01/b...

Blog Post: Gender Shaping Climate Change – Courts, Data, and Harm

Christie Nicoson There is a notable gender imbalance in climate decision-making, with only around 20% of countries sending women to the United Nations climate negotiations,[1] and court decisions h…

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Environmental Law and Justice (ELAJ) @elaj-ucd.bsky.social · Apr 9

In 2023, and despite lack of government opposition, a Bill to protect Ireland's environment and meet climate goals lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil. Jamie McLoughlin explores this innovative and potentially transformative Bill in more detail: elajucd.com/2025/03/15/a...

An analysis of the Climate Action and Biodiversity (Mandates of Certain Organisations) Bill 2023

Jamie McLoughlin Introduction It has by now been well established that Ireland – like the rest of the world – is facing grave climate and biodiversity crises. Indeed, the Dáil declared a climate an…

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Landscape Research @landscaperesearch.bsky.social · Feb 6

Sharing a new book celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Landscape, Law & Justice Research Group edited by Michael Jones, Amy Strecker, Gunhild Setten & Don Mitchell and published in November 2024.

Access the book here: doi.org/10.62077/9n5...

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ESIL IG on Critical Approaches to International Law @cailesil.bsky.social · Apr 1

Friends, we are happy to share our CfP for the ESIL pre-conference workshop, which will take place in September in Berlin. This event will mark the official launch of our IG. We would be delighted to see many of you there 🥳

Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL
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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Apr 8

"The proposed mining application in the Sperrin mountains not only has serious implications for human and animal health across our island, but also for the natural and cultural heritage of one of our island’s most precious landscapes." Read EJNI @ejni.bsky.social report at: ejni.net/wp-content/u...

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Apr 8

EJNI @ejni.bsky.social have published this helpful report on the gold mine application for the Sperrin Mountains (NI) & transboundary consultation with the south: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social

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Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · Apr 8

This Thursday (10th April) at 6pm in Dublin! Asylum Under Pressure with
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...

Asylum Under Pressure: Public Lecture and Panel Discussion

Sean Rehaag (York University) w/ Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst) Hilkka C. Becker (Int Protection Appeals Tribunal) & Cathryn Costello (UCD)

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Apr 7

Huge congrats to Dr. Raphael Ng'etich who successfully defended his Viva at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social: "The Impact of Carbon Credit Schemes in Conservancies in Northern Kenya on the Governance of Unregistered Community Land". Thanks to Robert Kibugi, Joseph McMahon and @profccostello.bsky.social

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Mar 25

'Property' is untenable as the dominant paradigm regulating people-place-environment. What alternatives exist, grounded in the specific conditions of communities? Welcome to the exciting and radical world of landscape research!

Amanda Byer @amandabyer.bsky.social · Mar 25

Raveena Tamoria and I gave an introduction to landscape law to landscape planners, landscape architects and landscape geographers. Landscape reclaiming its legal identity is so important for climate justice, cultural rights and environmental protection.
Learn more here: landscaperesearch.org

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Sinéad Mercier @sineadmercier.bsky.social · Mar 25

Some exciting post this morning. My copy of Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire arrived today from @maxplancklaw.bsky.social - includes my chapter 'A Haunting Absence' on the origins of international energy law in the legal techniques used in the colonial conquest of Ireland.

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Sinéad Mercier @sineadmercier.bsky.social · Mar 25

Thank you to Otto, Stefan & @donalcoffey.bsky.social & the @property-injustice.bsky.social team. All articles free & available to read open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications...

Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire

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Amanda Byer @amandabyer.bsky.social · Mar 24

My book Placing Property has officially reached 10k downloads!
This book explains how property is rooted in spatial injustice.
Thank you to everyone who downloaded and shared my work!
Hopefully this empowers people to think about how to reimagine land law.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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Prof Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social · Mar 11

Truly a viva to remember! A remarkable thesis from @sonyacotton.bsky.social congrats too to the @property-injustice.bsky.social team

Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Mar 10

Congratulations to @sonyacotton.bsky.social for passing her PhD Viva with no corrections at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social. Special thanks to the examiners Prof. Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social and Prof. Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social and to the Chair, Prof. Ian O'Donnell

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Mar 10

Congratulations to @sonyacotton.bsky.social for passing her PhD Viva with no corrections at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social. Special thanks to the examiners Prof. Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social and Prof. Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social and to the Chair, Prof. Ian O'Donnell

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Mar 7

For those of us in the South, we have until 23 April to make submissions against extractivist and ecologically harmful mining applications in the North. NI is not for sale! www.gov.ie/en/consultat...

Transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Public Consultation – Dalradian Gold Mine Project development, located in County Tyrone on the southern edge of the Sperrin Mountains

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Mar 7

It's crucial that all of us on this island work together to prevent extractivist, ecologically harmful and neocolonial mining applications in the North:
www.rundale.org/2025/03/06/s...

Sperrins Gold Mine Inquiry Suspended: Transboundary Solidarity for Environmental Justice in Ireland - Rundale

A public inquiry into a major mining project in Northern Ireland was suspended shortly after starting due to breaches in laws protecting public participation. Local communities have resisted the proje...

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Property(In)Justice @property-injustice.bsky.social · Mar 6

We are over the moon that this is out, featuring chapters from the whole Property[in]Justice team and other brilliant scholars on #Empire, #history and #law. It's open access - so please enjoy! Thank you to @donalcoffey.bsky.social @maxplancklaw.bsky.social and everyone else who worked so hard!

Donal Coffey @donalcoffey.bsky.social · Mar 4

Delighted to say that this new co-edited volume by myself and Stefan Vogenauer is now available as volume 25 of the Global Perspectives on Legal History series. It is open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications... We have a great set of authors who contributed to this.

Front page of 'Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire' edited by Donal K Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer. The front image is the an image of James I abolishing the Brehon law and bringing the common law to Ireland.

Donal K. Coffey and Stefan Vogenauer
Preface
Part I
Legal Transfer in the Common Law World:
From the Early Modern Period until the Present
7 | Scott A. Carrière
Law and Legalism in Corporate Newfoundland, 1583–1699
37 | Matilde Cazzola
Aboriginal Protection and parens patriae: Indigenous Youths,
Juvenile Delinquents, and the Reformatory Principle in Australia
and England
73 | Philip Girard
On the Edge of Many Empires: Employers’ Liability in Quebec’s
Industrial Age, 1880–1931
105 | Christopher M. Roberts and Hazel W. H. Leung
The Legacies of Vagrancy Law and the Reconstruction
of the Criminal in Hong Kong, 1945–2022
V
Part II
Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice
in the former British Empire
139 | Amy Strecker and Amanda Byer
Introduction: Landscape, Law, and Spatial Justice
in the former British Empire
151 | Amanda Byer
Reserving Space: Land, Nature, and Empire in the Development
of Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law
187 | Sonya Cotton
Legislating “Community” in Southern Africa’s Plural Properties
239 | Raphael Ng’etich
Competing Notions of Land in Colonial Kenya and the Impact
on Present-Day Land Governance
279 | Sinéad Mercier
A Haunting Absence: Tracing the Origins of International Energy
Law from the Laboratory of Ireland

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