Episodes 3, 10 and 11 are probably most relevant.

A global commons no longer: Sea control reimagined In recent years the way in which states perceive the value of the seas has changed. The processes of legal and extra-legal territorialization have meant that the seas are now viewed as having value...

My latest article is out. It argues that sea control has been reimagined in recent years, driven by a dramatic change in the value that states place upon the seas. This in turn is impacting navies across the globe.
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Academic selfie: with jacket and trousers that I sewed myself. #sewing

Many thanks! It’s an upholstery velvet I got at a craft destash market. (Where I also got the olive raw silk it is lined with).

I just did a really good parallel park in one go. I should probably give up on the week now. Nothing‘s going to top that.

I organised this episode because I'm horrified at how casually states are going about targeted killing. I also made an Archer gif for it

I’ve nearly completed my blue velvet frock coat with green silk lining. Just a bit (quite a bit) of finishing left to do. #sewing

@pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @alonso-gd.bsky.social

72. Assassinations: law, targetting and the changing nature of war In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) and Douglas Guilfoyle (UNSW Canberra) are joined by Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg (LSE) and

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: assassination in international law.

Tamsin Paige, Douglas Guilfoyle, Alonso Gurmendi & Emma Lush unpack drone strikes, target lists. Has killing individuals has become the “new black” in statecraft? And what does the law actually say?

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My blue velvet frock coat with olive silk lining is beginning to come together. Once the matching sleeves, collar, and fronting is on the net result may look a little … pirate-y. #sewing

Australia’s ‘Most Decorated’ Soldier Charged with Five War Crimes of Murder [Melanie O’Brien is Professor of International Law and Deputy Head of School (Research) at the University of Western Australia Law School; and visiting scholar with the University of Minnesota Law …

My piece in @opiniojuris.bsky.social on the arrest & charging of Ben Roberts-Smith for 5 #warCrimes of murder. An incredibly significant legal development in #Australia, but also in the general global fight against impunity for international crimes. #intLaw #IHL opiniojuris.org/2026/04/15/a...

My blue velvet frock coat with olive silk lining is beginning to come together. Once the matching sleeves, collar, and fronting is on the net result may look a little … pirate-y. #sewing

Academic selfie

NSW premier told to resign after protest laws struck down by top court The laws, rushed through parliament after the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, have been found to be unconstitutional by the state's highest court.

The rise of anti-democratic anti-protest laws in Australia has been chilling. Finally, one such law has been found unconstitutional. Hopefully, more such cases will follow, upholding Australia’s (anaemic) implied constitutional guarantee for political communication.

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The thing about AI replacing analysts that I think is implicit to a lot of people who understand AI, but not at all clear to the people doing layoffs is this: adversaries use AI for automation and as a force multiplier too. Humans are the deciding difference in who wins, beyond equal automation.

Why do we even bother with endnotes--this is my personal pet peeve as a historian, I need to read the spicy, sassy, whiny footnotes immediately

If you have a problem and think: “I know, I will use blockchain” then two things are true:

1) you don’t understand your problem; and

2) you don’t understand blockchain.

(I can’t recall who said it, but it was via comp.risks)

Coalition's migration plan panned as 'Trumpian', likened to 'White Australia' era Labor, the Greens and rights groups have lined up to condemn Angus Taylor's first major policy proposal as Opposition leader.

<stern auntie voice>

ANGUS JAMES TAYLOR.
I dare you to need medical care in my department, where the 'self-serving immigrants' you speak of will still give you excellent care. Because they're PROFESSIONALS. 🤨
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The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

Academic selfies: yesterday, today. Finally, autumn!

US military says blockade of Iran's ports to begin Monday, after Iran says it will not 'surrender' Washington says it

According to international law and *checks notes* the US Supreme Court - if you declare a blockade you acknowledge that the other side are lawful belligerents and that you are engaged in a war: The Prize Cases (67 U.S. 635).

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So I decided to do the lining first for my next project, so I don’t get frustrated and rush it towards the end. Downside: I’m now looking at this gorgeous olive green silk and thinking it should be the jacket, not the lining! #sewing

So I decided to do the lining first for my next project, so I don’t get frustrated and rush it towards the end. Downside: I’m now looking at this gorgeous olive green silk and thinking it should be the jacket, not the lining! #sewing

New #CalledToTheBar: What does it take to prosecute the “crime of crimes” in real time?

@drnajimagi.bsky.social is joined by Mykola Yurlov (Ukrainian MFA) and Mark Ellis (IBA) to unpack the proposed Special Tribunal for Aggression against Ukraine.

🎧 Listen now:
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I find cutting fabric at day’s end soothing. Photos don’t do this vintage raw olive silk justice. Got five metres of it for next to nothing at a de-stash market. Cutting it feels decadent. It’s going to be the lining of a long blue velvet coat - which will be amazing & hard to wear anywhere. #sewing

Academic selfie: I would like more four day weekends

Easter long weekend. Finished these trousers and made this waistcoat. The waistcoat has a lovely herringbone texture and broad windowpane check that’s easier to see in close up. The waistcoat is made entirely from recycled material from a craft destash market and scraps from other projects. #sewing

Academic selfie: dinner with friends (but only selfie-ing with @djag2.bsky.social) edition

Easter long weekend. Finished these trousers and made this waistcoat. The waistcoat has a lovely herringbone texture and broad windowpane check that’s easier to see in close up. The waistcoat is made entirely from recycled material from a craft destash market and scraps from other projects. #sewing

70. Foreign Military Bases: Empire, Sovereignty, and International Law In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, Ntina Tzouvala (UNSW) is joined by Zohra Ahmed (Boston University School of Law) and Nasia Hadjigeorgiou (University of Central Lan

New episode of #CalledToTheBar: foreign military bases, empire, and international law.

Ntina Tzouvala speaks with Zora Ahmed & Nasia Hadjigeorgiou on SOFAs, post-colonial bases, the Chagos opinion, and what these spaces reveal about sovereignty, power, and war.

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