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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New 'Impact Talks at UTS' Episode 25, The Right to Housing with @utsintlaw.bsky.social's @drjessiehohmann.bsky.social pod.link/1760672339/e...
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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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As I wrote last year in @justsecurity.org, Israel’s pager attack in Lebanon violated the law of war. www.justsecurity.org/103184/amend...
Article 7(2) of Amended Protocol II on Conventional Weapons and the Lebanon Pager Explosions
Analysis of whether the pager explosions in Lebanon violated a treaty that prohibits certain booby traps and other devices.
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The Associated Press@apnews.com · 12mo agoThousands of pagers exploded in an Israeli attack against Hezbollah last year. Now some of the survivors, including children, are speaking about their recovery.
Great to welcome our new PhD and LLM candidates to the UTS Faculty of Law this week. Their work will make a great contribution on human rights, feminist theory, disability, First Nations, and social justice all close to @utsintlaw.bsky.social's heart.
This is a problem w/ #genocide. States (& other entities) wait until people die before they call it. But genocide is a process that starts long before the dying. My book details this process & why we should focus on all the genocide crimes, not just 'killing'. www.routledge.com/From-Discrim...
From Discrimination to Death: Genocide Process Through a Human Rights Lens
From Discrimination to Death studies the process of genocide through the human rights violations that occur during genocide. Using individual testimonies and in-depth field research from the Armenian ...
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Zeteo@zeteo.com · last yr.Israeli human rights group B’Tselem finally determined that Israel is carrying out a genocide. @dianabuttu.bsky.social breaks down what the report gets right — and where it goes wrong. Read the full story: zeteo.com/p/israeli-hu...
Niche post, while reading ICJ oral submissions: no one, not even the US counsel, seems to mention the 'rules based international order' before the ICJ. It's 'international law' all down the line. Make of *that* what you will.
@utsintlaw.bsky.social Dr Kathryn Greenman, quizmaster @anzsil.org #ANZSIL2025 administering a ferociously tricky IL quiz
@utsintlaw.bsky.social's members and friends in sunny Canberra #ANZSIL25
Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social · last yr.Academic selfie: #ANZSIL2025 day 2 morning tea with the amazing @hollycullenfreo.bsky.social, phenomenal @adrienneringin.bsky.social, and delightful @drjessiehohmann.bsky.social edition
Phoebe Okowa giving an excellent Kirby Lecture on climate change obligations and the forthcoming ICJ Advisory Op #ANZSIL2025 @anzsil.org
Holly Cullen@hollycullenfreo.bsky.social · last yr.#ANZSIL2025 #CttB A rare live recording of Called to the Bar at the ANZSIL conference. From left: @utsintlaw.bsky.social @drjessiehohmann.bsky.social, @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social, @djag2.bsky.social and @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social. @drnajimagi.bsky.social is at the edge of the shot
Dr Alex Grey from @utsintlaw.bsky.social has new research out on Indigenous language use in Australia's parliaments. Full text is open access (DOI 10.1080/07268602.2025.2503862) & enjoy this blog with bonus content! www.languageonthemove.com/making-lingu... (Thanks @languageonthemove.bsky.social)
Making linguistic diversity visible in parliament
In parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) in 2014, parliamentarian Mr Troy Grant spoke in Wiradjuri in a speech about the North West Wiradjuri Language And Cultural Nest. The H…
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For July's portrait of "Outstanding Women", ALENA SCHRÖDER tells the story of Cecilia Medina Quiroga. A Chilean lawyer, judge, and professor, she fought for women’s rights – notably in the IACtHR's historic “Cotton Field Femicide” case over which she presided. verfassungsblog.de/outstanding-...
@utsintlaw.bsky.social's academics and PhDs are at #ANZSIL this week, talking about TWAIL perspective on deep seabed mining, Ecuador's claim to Antarctica, histories of risk and due diligence in IL, and feeding the San Fran conference on International Organization.
Book Review II of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order by Konstantinos D. Magliveras www.afronomicslaw.org/category/ana...
Book Review II of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order
The AfCFTA, which aims at setting up a single market for goods and services ‘from Cairo to Cape Town’, is the subject of the eloquent monograph written by Professor Kufuor. The author, a well-known sc...
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Book Review I of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order - The Problem of Protectionism in Africa by Emmanuel Opoku Awuku www.afronomicslaw.org/category/ana...
Book Review I of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order - The Problem of Protectionism in Africa
This paper explores the persistence of protectionist trade policies across Africa and their implications for economic development, regional integration, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (Af...
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“Australia must stand firm in its support for a rules-based order and reject any US requests for military aid” Completely agree with my colleague Prof Don Rothwell. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Australia must stand firm in its support for a rules-based order and reject any US requests for military aid | Donald Rothwell
Labor governments have a proud history of supporting the UN charter. The Albanese government must continue it
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I had the honour of being featured in an episode of my friend Suren Manukyan's podcast, Unfiltered History, discussing the history of international criminal law. This link is in English; Armenian version available soon. Hopefully of use to non-lawyers & #intlaw students. youtu.be/JKHj0hdd9Gw?...
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Does the Australian government have a duty to repatriate citizens and permanent residents stuck in Iran and Israel? Thomas Mulder, @reginajefferies.bsky.social and I explain what international law says ... theconversation.com/australian-c...
Australian citizens in Iran and Israel are desperate to leave. Is the government required to help?
While the Australian government has frequently helped its citizens flee crises overseas, it is not legally obligated to do so. And repatriating citizens is complex.
theconversation.com
Now available open access, including contributions by @utsintlaw.bsky.social's Colin Hawes 'Developing a Hybrid Chinese-International E-Commerce Platform Ecosystem' www.cambridge.org/au/universit...
A Casebook on Chinese Outbound Investment | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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Dig! @astra.bsky.social interviews @ryannliebenthal.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @millennialdebt.bsky.social on Ryann's Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. How we got individualized student debt instead of socialized higher ed for all. thedigradio.com/podcast/stud...
Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce
Featuring Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Mike Pierce on Ryann’s book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. Interview by guest host Astra Taylor.
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Race and the Question of Palestine is an essay collection that explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a classificatory system. www.sup.org/books/middle...
@fleurjohns.bsky.social on Trump and Consular Internationalism
Fleur Johns@fleurjohns.bsky.social · last yr.To the extent that Trump’s foreign policy has a coherent logic, that logic — the accompanying conception of state territory & national interest etc — is best understood through the historical & legal lens of consular internationalism rather than diplomatic relations www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Decades on from the Royal Commission, why are Indigenous people still dying in custody? UTS Law's Thalia Anthony and Eddie Cubillo: theconversation.com/decades-on-f...
Decades on from the Royal Commission, why are Indigenous people still dying in custody?
Indigenous people are again grieving the deaths of loved ones in custody. Would they have occurred if the royal commission recommendations had been fully implemented?
theconversation.com
UTS Int Law's Colin Hawes comments on the Port of Darwin Controversy in @theconversation.com Port of Darwin’s struggling Chinese leaseholder may welcome an Australian buy-out theconversation.com/port-of-darw...
Port of Darwin’s struggling Chinese leaseholder may welcome an Australian buy-out
The biggest threat posed by the Chinese-owned Port of Darwin is not security-related but is the risk of the struggling owners becoming insolvent.
theconversation.com