many congratulations!!

Palestinian groups launch legal bid to shed light on Australian arms export permits to Israel Three human rights groups are seeking to subpoena permit documents from Richard Marles

Hugely significant litigation commenced by ACIJ - with a view to halting the supply of arms to a genocidal state, but which will also shed needed light on Australia’s broader enrolment in military supply chains. All eyes on the Federal Court:

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Title of a previous edition of "Some of the Best New LPE and LPE-Adjacent Scholarship"

Did you or a scholar whose work you love have an article accepted this academic year? If so, let us know!

Later this month, we’ll highlight some of the hottest LPE and LPE-adjacent work from the past two cycles. Send nominations to managingeditor@lpeblog.org. Self-noms highly encouraged!

FOR SIGN-ON: The Legal Foundations for Fossil Fuel Phaseout: An Open Letter (April 2026) The Legal Foundations for Fossil Fuel Phaseout: An Open Letter to the Co-Hosts and Participants of the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels We, the undersigned X# legal scholars, ...

Calling on legal scholars/practitioners to endorse an open letter to the co-hosts and participants of the Santa Marta Conference on the Legal Foundations for Fossil Fuel Phaseout.

Read the letter here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Deadline: 09:00 PDT/18:00 CEST on 20 April 2026

Reminder that the call for panellists for this year’s @anzsil.org Teaching Workshop closes tomorrow. Join us!

a fantastic course:

more from me on this soon in talks at Edinburgh in May and Te Herenga Waka—VUW @anzsil.org in June...

so grateful for the hard work and thinking of all of my students in a whirlwind six weeks and can't wait to see what they come up with for their essays - some absolute banger topics already. research and writing is not dead just yet.

our last seminar looked at the rise of anti-science law and politics, and how climate jurisprudence is responding. How should we understand new obligations to produce science, and to restructure the creation of science, in the present moment - what role for law, and what are its limits?

Public unrest heats up over Western Sydney’s data centres As the NSW government hastens approvals for large data centres, Western Sydney communities say their concerns about heat and health risks are being sidelined.

This article highlights something really important: it is absolutely bonkers how many massive, energy + water hungry data centres are being built in Sydney suburbs that are already subject to worsening climate impacts and heat island effects. They'll make both worse

AusSTS | AusSTS 2026 Submit to AusSTS 2026: Antipodean Interruptions, 9-11 Nov at Victoria University of Wellington. Deadline: 3 April 2026. All career stages welcome.

The CFP deadline for #AusSTS2026 has been extended! Get your abstracts and submissions in by next Friday 10 April

aussts.org/aussts2026

time sovereignty for all (except Tasmania)

An image of the TOC of a journal issue on law and capitalism.

cool new journal issue alert! second installment from the law and capitalism conference at Duke. I have a piece in it - can't wait to read the others. lcp.law.duke.edu

Essential thread by Melissa Barber at MSF if you want to understand how pharma IP is not only a pricing issue but absolute supply of essential medicines

Call for Submissions: Forum on the Conceptual History of Technology by Zac Endter and Jonas Knatz

The JHI Blog has released a call for submissions to its forum on the “Conceptual History of Technology.” Pitches are due on May 7.

Update: this did not go well

Applications now open for this year’s EUI summer course on human rights.

Two weeks of thinking through the theme of ‘Imagining Planetary Legal Orders’ with convenors @tim-lindgren.bsky.social , Arnulf Becker Lorca, faculty, artists and activists. Apply!

www.eui.eu/apply?id=ael...

Applications now open for this year’s EUI summer course on human rights.

Two weeks of thinking through the theme of ‘Imagining Planetary Legal Orders’ with convenors @tim-lindgren.bsky.social , Arnulf Becker Lorca, faculty, artists and activists. Apply!

www.eui.eu/apply?id=ael...

Economic Warfare w/ Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Nicholas Mulder Featuring Aslı Bâli, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, and Nicholas Mulder on the economic warfare unfolding with the US-Israeli war on Iran—and beyond.

A monstrously comprehensive nearly three hour long episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social examining the economic warfare dimensions of the US-Israeli war on Iran and Iran’s asymmetric response with Aslı Bâli, @yarbatman.bsky.social, and Nicholas Mulder. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/econ...

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Call for panellists (please share)!

This year’s ANZSIL ILTIG workshop will be held in the PM on Tues 30 June, Te Herenga Waka-VUW.

Panel themes are teaching international law in middle powers, and teaching international law on Indigenous land.

Info and form here:

anzsil.org/event-6624819

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

‘Worst thing I’ve ever seen’: CSIRO slashes climate modelling jobs Australia’s science agency is cutting more than 100 jobs in its Environment Research Unit, which critics say will crush our capacity to predict climate change.

CSIRO have now lost more jobs under the Albanese Governmet than under the Abbott Government.

We have to do better on research funding and backing our scientists.
www.smh.com.au/environment/...

"one in three women exit academia following motherhood. For
mothers, childbirth leads to a persistent decline in both tenure attainment & research output, while men’s trajectories on these margins are unaffected by parenthood".
recent study based on data from Denmark
cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/downloa...

Call for panellists (please share)!

This year’s ANZSIL ILTIG workshop will be held in the PM on Tues 30 June, Te Herenga Waka-VUW.

Panel themes are teaching international law in middle powers, and teaching international law on Indigenous land.

Info and form here:

anzsil.org/event-6624819

today we picked apart geoengineering, the many ways international law intersects it, and arguments about taxonomy and jurisdiction; First Nations critiques and the continuities of climate displacement; and international legal permissiveness as a structure, not a fact (to misquote Wolfe).

would be happy to send - DM me your best email

this week, two case studies on technologies on a planetary scale. Yesterday we thought about plastics; ongoing treaty debates over caps and finance; and how the temporalities of the plastiglomerate might disrupt ideas of legal time.

last week we looked at technoscience, vaccines and pandemics. We started with a deep dive into critiques of the TRIPS exceptionalist model, and of ‘disposable lives’; then moved to arguments for ‘deep prevention’ and how these are realised (or not realised) in the Pandemic treaty text.

This would be a war crime.