And it was equally fantastic to learn more about your teaching practices, Joe! Would have loved to include a photo of you in robes as McIntyre J ;-)

Teaching ‘Reading the Law: Language, Power and Ideology’ — Dr Brett Todd on Building a Collaborative, Inclusive Classroom Dr Brett Todd interviewed by Allegra Holmes à Court This case study follows Dr Brett Todd as he reflects on teaching 78241: Reading the Law: Language, Power and Ideology, a course offered at Univer…

Brett Todd @utsintlaw.bsky.social stresses the benefits of incorporating students' lived experience and knowledge. Like many of the case study participants, he also incorporates collaboration with colleagues as an important strategy to meet the challenges of interdisciplinary teaching.

Teaching a Forensic Linguistics Minor: Challenges and Opportunities for Collaboration Professor Shunichi Ishihara and Dr Michael Carne interviewed by Allegra Holmes à Court This case-study focuses on two courses taught as part of the Forensic Linguistics minor at the Australian Nati…

Shunichi Ishihara and Michael Carne are passionate about their forensic linguistics unit "FL can have a major societal impact... and [help ensure] evidence presented in court is able to be validated…ultimately that can have a massive impact on people’s lives, certainly in the criminal context”.

Making the Implicit Explicit: Dr Cleo Hansen-Lohrey on Integrating Language Awareness into Legal Education Dr Cleo-Hansen-Lohrey interviewed by Allegra Holmes à Court Dr Cleo Hansen-Lohrey Dr Cleo Hansen-Lohrey is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Tasmania. Her research focuses on in…

Cleo Hansen-Lohrey identifies scope to focus in on language in core law teaching, "making explicit what is implicit", and shares interesting examples of how she has done this in practice, when teaching Administrative Law and Statutory Interpretation.

Integrating Interdisciplinary Research Into Evidence Law: Associate Professor Mehera San Roque’s Collaborative Approach Mehera San Roque interviewed by Allegra Holmes à Court Dr Mehera San Roque Mehera San Roque is an Associate Professor in the School of Law, Society and Criminology at the University of New South Wa…

Mehera San Roque shares, “Broadly speaking, linguistic diversity in legal academia is still pretty low compared to our student body… So referring to and demonstrating how multilingual capacity is actually a strength helps validate their experience of working in a second or third language"'.

Discourse, Trust and Openness: Professor Desmond Manderson’s Interdisciplinary Legal Pedagogy Professor Desmond Manderson interviewed by Allegra Holmes à Court Professor Desmond Manderson Professor Desmond Manderson (‘Des’) holds a joint appointment in the Australian National University Col…

Des Manderson shares reflects on interdisciplinary collaboration. “You have to be able to trust the other person has got your back, that their criticisms of your ideas are constructive...no interdisciplinarity without collaboration, no collaboration without trust, and no trust without ..friendship”

Bringing an Awareness of Language to Legal Education: Dr Joe McIntyre on Teaching Law as a Discursive Enterprise Dr Joe McIntyre interviewed by Allegra Holmes à Court Dr Joe McIntyre Joe McIntyre is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of South Australia. His core research lies in judicial studies,…

@drjoemcintyre.bsky.social talks about the fundamental role language plays in his law teaching & in law making more generally. “different [jurisprudential] views of the nature of law affect the ways we think about language in the law..There’s a lot of thinking.. sitting behind that use of language”

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Dear humanity,
Please Help Me – My Son May Die at Any Moment.
My son is suffering from a severe and life-threatening injury after being shot by Israeli drones.
I beg you, i kiss your feet, to help my son.
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Teaching Case Studies In 2025, the LLIRN ran its first internship program, with the goal of developing a set of peer-informed resources to support those wishing to incorporate a law and language focus into their teachin…

We now have a complete set of teaching case studies on our law and language website! 🤗🥳

These case studies share the experience of 8 Australian academics who have incorporated a law and language focus into their teaching, across diverse, units, disciplines and universities.

Venusaur (Pokémon) Venusaur has two forms:

But this was my first thought
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Flower shaped white paper on a palm

My kid just hole punched this cute paper flower which seemed on theme

See also: "do not switch off"

"Leg powered"

Got myself a "hybrid"

From the sounds of it he's still around in some capacity!

First, Harold Koch reflects on his linguistics unit, Language and Society in Indigenous Australia at ANU sharing 30+ yrs experience. Working on a land title case, witnessing misunderstandings re language motivated integrating this focus, influencing law students who went on to work in relevant roles

Cover of Anna Law's Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship with a US flag and a man behind the flag as if the stripes are bars

📣 📣You can read the first chapter of my book for FREE until May 10 here: academic.oup.com/book/62224/c...

Teaching Case Studies In 2025, the LLIRN ran its first internship program, with the goal of developing a set of peer-informed resources to support those wishing to incorporate a law and language focus into their teachin…

We now have a complete set of teaching case studies on our law and language website! 🤗🥳

These case studies share the experience of 8 Australian academics who have incorporated a law and language focus into their teaching, across diverse, units, disciplines and universities.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

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The Australian War Crimes Defamation Trial: Roberts-Smith v Fairfax [Melanie O’Brien is Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia and President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.] This post is about one of t…

Just a bit of throw-back here, to my blog post from 2023, when BRS lost his defamation trial over media reporting of allegations of his #warCrimes (he lost the appeal in 2025). Investigators were in the court during that trial. This investigation has taken yrs. opiniojuris.org/2023/06/02/t...

For non Australian friends, here's a thread on a very significant arrest in Australia of a senior and decorated military figure for alleged war crimesb in Afghanistan. This is one with a big back story, including whistle blowing and a big defamation case.

A wonderful reminder that good people are the baseline. Everything else is the abberation, and it can be changed for the better.

The variety of German bees before the Industrial Revolution (187, top) vs after the introduction of pesticides (43, bottom), DHM

I've focused on Australia so far (co-authored a comparative study with Belgian colleagues too). Having said that, many of the trends and issues we see happen across different jurisdictions

A core strand of my research is language in asylum procedures, policy, and public discourse.
In my ongoing efforts to make research accessible, I've gathered all my "traditional" and other publications, in one place - a project page on the Law and Language website. It includes open access links! 🙌

(It will shock exactly none of you to learn that the only Artemis astronaut who doesn't have kids is also the only woman on the mission.)

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