Julia Dehm
@juliadehm.bsky.social
Associate Professor & ARC DECRA Fellow, La Trobe Law School; author of Reconsidering REDD+; pronouns she/her; living on Wurundjeri land
New special issue! Read it here: escholarship.org/uc/lawandpol... This issue features an introduction by Sumudu Atapattu and Carmen G. Gonzalez, articles by @juliadehm.bsky.social, @sheilarose.bsky.social, Usha Natarajan, and Erika George, and book reviews by Shohini Sengupta and Carolina Saito.
Just listened to this fab episode on australias climate targets w @cristyclark.bsky.social @juliadehm.bsky.social and @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/c...
56. Does Australia have Credible Climate Targets? (Spoilers: no)
Podcastaflevering · Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks · 24-10-2025 · 56 min.
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Some reflections from Jacqueline Peel, Nicole Rogers and myself about the failure of the proposed EPBC Act reforms to requirement assessment of greenhouse gas emissions of fossil fuel projects
The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 8mo agoLabor has pledged to pass long-awaited environment laws this week. But the current reforms leave Australia open to legal challenge.
Pacific Elders Voice: "As a member of the [Pacific Islands] Forum, Australia’s actions are in sharp contradiction to its platitudes around caring for the Pacific ‘family.’ The Woodside project is a demonstration of Australia’s glaring disconnect between rhetoric and action."
Congratulations to Rapoport Center co-director @karengle.bsky.social for her new publication, Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court! Professor Engle’s work, published in the Cambridge Elements series, is available free for the next week. Read it here: cup.org/3FqfvPp
“She says the early weeks of the re-elected Albanese government have led to “a reassessment of how to engage, because what we’ve been doing with Labor in the last couple of years, it’s hard to see how it’s working” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Labor accused of ‘gaslighting’ Australians on climate crisis as fossil fuel projects keep getting approved
‘They offer sympathy and then just go and approve massive fossil fuel projects anyway,’ one advocate says
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Last month, we Iaunched Queer Judgments in Melbourne alongside two other fantastic books on queer law edited by @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social & @claerwen.bsky.social. We had a lovely chat/performance about our books with @dansheikh.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Di Otto & Sarah Ward. Listen here:
Queer Connections: A Triple Book Launch
The Institute for International Law and the Humanities at Melbourne Law School was pleased to host a triple book launch to celebrate and draw out the connections between three recent edited volumes fo
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⚡️ ⚖️ Precedent-setting #climatelitigation victory this morning in #SaulvsRWE 🙌 🎉 A victory for #climatejustice and corporate accountability 🧵🧑⚖️ A short thread to unpack the key legal principles reaffirmed by the judges of the Higher Court of Hamm 🇩🇪 ⬇️ 1/8
More than ten years worth of Australia’s emissions in a single facility for export. There is nothing that the Labor party could do this term - or ever - that could bring it back from the impact of this decision for climate harms. Absolutely evil.
🚨 Australia’s new federal Environment Minister Murray Watt has said he intends to approve a forty-year extension to Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project. With his first significant decision set to fuel almost four billion tonnes of greenhouse gas. More here: envirojustice.org.au/press-releas...
I feel sick. I feel angry. I feel so, so sad. What a legacy, @albomp.bsky.social. I'll NEVER forgive what you've done to this country and our future. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Breaking: Australia's largest gas project approved for operation to 2070
The life of Australia's largest oil and gas project will be extended to 2070, with Environment Minister Murray Watt giving the long-awaited environmental approval for Woodside's North West Shelf proje...
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Loved celebrating 3 books focused on queer approaches to law this evening- Queer Judgemnts, & my 2 edited books with @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social on queering int law! Thanks @dsheikh.bsky.social, @senthorun.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social & others for presenting & all who joined us there or online
A queer delight to celebrate queer legal scholarship today in Melbourne & launch our family of books: Queer Judgments, Queer Engagements with International Law, & Queer Encounters with International Law. @claerwen.bsky.social @senthorun.bsky.social @juliadehm.bsky.social @dansheikh.bsky.social 🌈🎓
The first episode of our podcast with @prof-mac.bsky.social 'Law at the End of the World' is now available on Spotify. In this episode we are joined by the fabulous @juliadehm.bsky.social who talks about her research, methodology, collaboration, building community, & attempting to find balance.
Episode 1 - Collaboration in the climate crisis (with Julia Dehm)
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For a sneak preview of my forthcoming monograph, please join for the virtual book talk of 'The Pathology of Plenty' organised by the fabulous @juliadehm.bsky.social & Caitlin Murphy! Details below 👇
Julia Dehm@juliadehm.bsky.social · last yr.Join us next Tuesday for a talk by @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on her forthcoming book, "The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law"
Join us next Tuesday for a talk by @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social on her forthcoming book, "The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law"
Julia Dehm@juliadehm.bsky.social · 2y agoDr Lys Kulamadayil @lyskulamadayil.bsky.social (IHEID), ‘The Pathology of Plenty: Natural Resources in International Law’ 8 April, 8am CEST/11.30am IST/4pm AEST Register: latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Don't forget to register for Prof Sigrid Boysen's lecture on 'Postcolonial Constellations:Natural Resources and Modern International Law's next Tuesday 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
Julia Dehm@juliadehm.bsky.social · 2y agoProf Sigrid Boysen (Helmut Schmidt), ‘Postcolonial Constellation: Natural Resources and Modern International Law’ 25 March, 9am CET/1.30pm IST/7pm AEDT Register: latrobe.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Bravo @marinavelickovic.bsky.social! This analysis 👇🏾 is spot on in my view. A must read for thinking about the fissures if the discipline of international law. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/03/t...
This could have been a Tweet, or: On the politics of signing things
In the wake of the Iraq war, a group of international lawyers published an open letter in the Guardian, framing their opposition to the invasion in
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My chapter, with Prof Vivien Holmes, on the legal profession and climate change is now live as part of @juliadehm.bsky.social et al's new textbook, Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System at www.latrobe.edu.au/library/open..., here's a short taster...
This is a ridiculous and damaging move from the ARC which should cause all academics here and abroad substantial concern. www.afr.com/policy/healt...
Research funding body suspends grant to pro-Palestinian academic
Controversial academic Randa Abdel-Fattah, who has said Zionists “have no claim or right to cultural safety”, has had her $870,000 research grant suspended.
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Delighted to share that Tranche 2 of the #openaccess book "Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer: Climate Change and the Australian Legal System" edited by Julia Dehm, Nicole Graham, Zoe Nay is now out! www.latrobe.edu.au/library/open...
very excited about these conversations - join us!
Julia Dehm@juliadehm.bsky.social · last yr.Warm welcome to join a new reading group on "Making and Unmaking Natural Resources" convened by Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social and myself. 10am AEDT Tuesdays fortnightly from 11 March 2025, via Zoom (with winter break), email for link and readings! lawecologypolitics.com/making-and-u...
Warm welcome to join a new reading group on "Making and Unmaking Natural Resources" convened by Anna Saunders @annasaunders.bsky.social and myself. 10am AEDT Tuesdays fortnightly from 11 March 2025, via Zoom (with winter break), email for link and readings! lawecologypolitics.com/making-and-u...
We look forward to receiving your submission. #legaled
Julia Dehm@juliadehm.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are inviting all Australian legal academics to contribute any teaching notes – including curricular strategies, teaching approaches, learning activities and assessment formats – that fit the book’s purpose and structure climateconsciouslawyers.com/call-for-inp...
To support the mainstreaming of climate change considerations in legal education we are developing a novel text: Becoming a Climate Conscious Lawyer – Educators’ Companion, edited by Julia Dehm, Kate Galloway, Nicole Graham and Zoe Nay (La Trobe eBureau, forthcoming)
Delighted to share a new online lectures series on "Resource Struggles and International Law" convened by Julia Dehm and Caitlin Murphy. It seeks to foster interdisciplinary and historical discussions about how international law both shapes, and is shaped by, struggles over natural resources.
We are collecting syllabi - courses that legal educators have prepared that integrate climate content! Write to me if you have something to share
Julia Dehm@juliadehm.bsky.social · 2y agoAs part of our ongoing work to support legal educators to mainstream climate change considerations in legal education we’re collecting law subject syllabi to create a resource ‘bank’ for legal educators. Have you got a syllabi you’d be happy to share? climateconsciouslawyers.com/syllabi/
