Aw thanks Laura!

Have an office and a staff profile so I guess it’s real now:

scholars.latrobe.edu.au/dsheikh

Hi La Trobe!

Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood takes two unassailable truths - billionaires are evil, the left is annoying - and spins them into narrative gold. Thrilling stuff.

Absolutely bowled over and delighted about this …

I'm thrilled that The Lawful Forest, the book I wrote with the fabulous John Page, has been awarded the 2023 Penny Pether Prize for its ‘significant contribution to the field of Australasian law, literature and humanities scholarship’.

In 2023, the AFLJ celebrates its 30th anniversary!🎉

We'll celebrate sharing some of our favourite publications.

Today's is Maria Giannacopoulos': "White Law/Black Deaths: Nomocide and the Foundational Absence of Consent in Australian Law".

#Openaccess here 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Call for nominations for the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law

Aggression, Capitalism, and International Law: Missed Opportunities or Structural Constraints? This lecture was delivered by Dr Ntina Tzouvala (ANU College of Law), as part of the Current Legal Problems Lecture Series 2023-24 and chaired by Professor C...

I am very grateful to those who turned up in person and tuned in online for this talk. If you missed it and are interested, the recording is here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGmt...

Melbourne friends, I’m presenting some new theatrical work this week on the difficulty & desirability of building utopian worlds through art. Join us a for a first reading of “Post Show Q & A”, Tuesday evening at the gorgeous Docklands Library:

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No haters only lovers.

PGP (Players gonna Play)

In my Swiftposium era.

Hurray!!!

Shocking. I’m shocked.

A 🔥🔥🔥 conversation about international law and the question of Palestine. Tomorrow at 12pm **London time** with the incredible @vasukinesiah.bsky.social @atarhindi.bsky.social @seanmacr.bsky.social and Christopher Gevers! Please share and register!

I have been interested in comparative study of law, its methods, and difficulties since the mid 90s. After having published tens of articles and many books, I think I know something about the subject. Here is the thing: reading non-scholarly novels is important for methodological imagination.

Tips & Work-arounds - Michael Gallagher Writes The bluesky app is still in development and many features you'll be used to aren't available yet. But there are work-arounds you can employ.

Very helpful tips on navigating bluesky:

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Is he? In this essay I will -

Woohoo!

The phrase burrowed into my imagination. It travelled with me as I began a PhD that attempted to find wonder in quotidian acts of queer dissent. It stayed with me as I sifted for wonder in increasingly dreary pandemic walks.

And now here it is, quite literally burrowed into my skin.

At this moment, even our wisecracking protagonist, Benedict, claims he is “so attired in wonder” that his words fail him.

What a curious and lovely turn of phrase, what an odd point in the proceedings to invoke wonder.

There was much to love in much ado, but the thing I found myself lingering on was an exchange that comes in the aftermath of a brutally called off wedding. For these characters, their worlds have collapsed in a matter of seconds, based off what will later turn to out to be an untrue allegation.

I first heard this phrase on a late 2013 evening in Ann Arbor, watching my first Shakespeare production. The show was Much Ado About Nothing, & it knocked the breath out of me. In the years that followed, I found myself returning to it repeatedly, finding fresh delights in a 500ish yr old romcom.

Strange time to get the words “I am attired in wonder” tattooed on your forearm, I’ll admit.

Then again, the imperative feels more important now than it ever has.

Nice to read this as I put the finishing touches on my abstract for Swiftposium 2024!

Ntina Tzouvala · Law’s violence (2023) Oishik Sircar, Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021). 370pp., £40.99 hb., 978 0 19012 792 3 This is a book that resists easy categoris...

100% not the most important thing in the world rn, but comrade Oishik Sircar wrote an extremely interesting book about law, modernity and violence in post-colonial India and I was very happy to review it: www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/indi...