Arundhati Roy's beautiful description of India's cockroach protests is inspirational for handling the Trump regime: "We saw Muslims, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs, Buddhists, people belonging to every caste and class...[they] demonstrated for us, the possible India, the beautiful India of our dreams."

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous • EQUATOR

The student protesters who have swarmed Delhi are showing us a different future for India

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📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

I wrote up some thoughts on obligations to produce science in the ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate change, and how they might (and might not) respond to this moment of climate science defunding and the authoritarian far right. www.ejiltalk.org/internationa...

International Courts Against the Defunding of Climate Science? Revisiting the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion

Introduction The first eighteen months of the second Trump administration have witnessed a sustained assault on scientific infrastructures enabling understanding of anthropogenic climate change. This ...

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I wrote up some thoughts on obligations to produce science in the ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate change, and how they might (and might not) respond to this moment of climate science defunding and the authoritarian far right. www.ejiltalk.org/internationa...

International Courts Against the Defunding of Climate Science? Revisiting the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion

Introduction The first eighteen months of the second Trump administration have witnessed a sustained assault on scientific infrastructures enabling understanding of anthropogenic climate change. This ...

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"Science as Culture" (@sciasculture.bsky.social) has a new special issue on #TechOligarchy - you can find my introduction here and the rest of the papers under "Latest" articles || #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Published in Science as Culture (Ahead of Print, 2026)

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Now calling for papers for this year's Australian Progressive Legal Studies conference, held 3-4 December 2026 at RMIT. Come think with us on 'Making and Breaking Worlds: Old and New Struggles in Law and Political Economy'. Abstracts due 7 August!

Now calling for papers for this year's Australian Progressive Legal Studies conference, held 3-4 December 2026 at RMIT. Come think with us on 'Making and Breaking Worlds: Old and New Struggles in Law and Political Economy'. Abstracts due 7 August!

My nine years editing my favorite journal, Law and History Review (@lawandhistrev.bsky.social), are coming to an end this summer. What's next? I'm thrilled to share my new multi-year initiative with Oxford University Press: Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History academic.oup.com/reference/62...

Oxford Bibliographies in Legal History

Abstract. Once the purview of lawyers and exclusively focused on courts and legal doctrine, legal history has become a vibrant, dynamic field that encompas

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Coming to a bookstore near you in February 2027.

We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Superb by @wanshucong.bsky.social: 'If the formal, legalist model of governance has not dominated the most crucial sectors of the global economy, why does it occupy such a prominent position in the minds of international lawyers... lpeproject.org/blog/the-inf...

The Informal Governance of Global Capitalism

The marginalization of international law under the second Trump administration has been a shock to the post-Cold War world order. Yet the impact of this development on the global economy has been far…

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Looking forward to this year's ISHTIP workshop at USP, São Paulo on 25-26 June, on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy'. Huge congratulations to the organisers on a terrific program. To join us, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/17th-ishti...

17th ISHTIP Annual Workshop hosted by Faculty of Law of Univ. of Sāo Paulo

Greetings from the local committee: It is a great pleasure to welcome you to ISHTIP 2026, hosted in the buzzling city of São Paulo.

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For anyone who published a book, article, or digital project on legal history between Jan.2025 and Dec.2026: you should apply to be featured in the ASLH's virtual event series for next yr--"Making Connections: New Works in Legal History, 2026-27." Due June 30, 2026: aslh.net/virtual-book... (1/2)

+++Save the Date+++ Melinda Cooper – Anachronism in Our Times Adorno-Vorlesungen 2026 18–20 November 2026, 6.30–8 pm Nov. 18: Patrimonial Capitalism Nov. 19: Fascism as Revolutionary Conservatism Nov. 20: Patriarchy Resurgent @goetheuni.bsky.social @suhrkamp.de @melindacooper.bsky.social

SocArXiv accepts law papers, as we always have. Some of the bells and whistles he wants we don't have- like ranking and email subscriptions, but those can be built using SocArXiv. We don't have funds or staff to help build that, but law schools do.

Ann M. Lipton@annmlipton.bsky.social · 2mo ago

not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Scientists: We desperately need long, unbroken records of North Atlantic currents to see how close we are to a #climate tipping point. US government: sending ships to rip 900 deep-sea sensors out of the water. Congress voted twice to keep them funded. They're being pulled anyway.

Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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The draft programme is up now on our website! Our workshop format intends to foster interdisciplinary conversations: chosen papers are presented by commentators from a different discipline (or different subfield. This year it will be all the more special with our Brazilian colleagues' engagement.

Int Society for the History & Theory of Intellectual Property @ishtip.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ISHTIP goes to Sao Paulo! Registration for the 17th Annual Workshop is open, and everyone who is interested in history and theory of intellectual property is very welcome to join. Please find more details in the page below.

ISHTIP goes to Sao Paulo! Registration for the 17th Annual Workshop is open, and everyone who is interested in history and theory of intellectual property is very welcome to join. Please find more details in the page below.

17th ISHTIP Annual Workshop hosted by Faculty of Law of Univ. of Sāo Paulo

Greetings from the local committee: It is a great pleasure to welcome you to ISHTIP 2026, hosted in the buzzling city of São Paulo.

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100% this

Hannah BW@hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 3mo ago

but what the current admin is doing isn’t just destroying public research but also cultivating its replacement—in part by private enterprise. this is an important aspect of the AI push: massive public and private investment in firms that run their own private labs and produce research

TWO great jobs in History and Philosophy of Science at Sydney! Rank from Lecturer (Assistant Prof) to Assoc Prof. Particularly interested in candidates working in the areas of early modern science, or science or medicine in Asia, or Indigenous knowledge systems... #HPS #STS #histstm #histsci

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science - Camperdown, Australia job with UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | 410910

Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philos...

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Nothing in the Budget last night for the ARC. Despite review after review recommending ARC funding be increased, nothing. Year on year, the same thing, no matter who's in Government.

On NSF’s postdoc page, the biology and earth science fields have been completely eliminated; the only remaining fellowships are in math, astronomy, engineering, and “entrepreneurship.” Weird choice not to support research on the life support system for 8 billion people. www.nsf.gov/funding/post...

If you published an article on legal history in *2025,* you should nominate it for a 2026 ASLH prize! For US work: Cromwell Prize for early career authors. For non-US work: Sutherland Prize for Britain/British empire + Burbank Prize. Due June 1, 2026: aslh.net/award_type/a... #legalhistory

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Please join us for the last ISTHIP online seminar series of this academic year 💫 Séverine Dusollier and Nicolas Malevé will talk about "The Legal Aesthetics of Copyright, How AI Unmakes Images" 🗓️ Monday 18 May 2026 🕰️ 4.00pm (Paris – CEST) Everyone is welcome. Registration & info:

As universities collapse, we’ll see a proliferation of micro-universities, analogous to microstates - for why is it any *less* precarious to declare yourself Rector Magnificus of the University of East Runton and live in a static caravan wearing homemade robes and wielding a papier-mâché mace?