Really, ABC? This clown driving an unnecessary 130km to a charging station he didn't bother downloading the app for first is like a petrol owner vehicle whinging because they didn't learn how to pump petrol or how to open the fuel cap. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
A tale of two futures...
have never seen a better approximation of sitting through a interminable university committee meeting than the poor Artermis II crew dealing with Trump’s call in: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQSQ...
I would watch the hell out of a series that had Louisa May Alcott as a zombie producer intent on seeking out the best YA.
Or would Fan-again be better?
Talking about Australian comedians tonight I accidentally said a spoonerism and came up with possibly the best niche drag name ever. Give a big round of applause for…. Klitty Fanagan!!
Tell me again how AI is going to take all our jobs..
Delighted that my piece with Jolyon Ford on 'International Law as Geology' - looking at ideas of core/non-core, selectivity, subjectivity and international law and what on earth is the 'rules based order' - is now open access. Available here: www.elgaronline.com/view/journal...
And season 3 of #CalledToTheBar is live! We open with a powerful conversation on feminist careers in international law. Tamsin Paige is joined by Dianne Otto, Christine Chinkin, and Judge Hilary Charlesworth to talk mentorship, activism, academia, and feminist practice
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One of those instances where circumstances make your work more useful than you hoped it might be…
An unplanned episode in our summer hiatus... please world let us get through the rest of January without needing to do another one!
New Called to the Bar episode: the full crew unpacks the US bombing of Venezuela and the abduction of Nicolás Maduro. UN Charter violations, head of state immunity, and why Washington no longer seems troubled by illegality. Bleak, sharp, and very 2026.
#CalledToTheBar
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The second last episode of season 2 of #CalledToTheBar is now out where we reflect on the gangsterism of current int relations. Thanks to @drnajimagi.bsky.social, @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social, @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social, and @djag2.bsky.social for another year
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New #CalledToTheBar! Imogen Saunders chats with editors from the American Journal of International Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and Australian Yearbook of International Law about publishing, peer review, & what makes a great article. Essential ECR listening!
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Episode 60 of Called to the Bar is out! I talk to senior editors Ingrid Brunk (American Jnl of International Law), Jolyon Ford (Australian Yearbook of International Law) and Liz Fisher (Oxford Jnl of Legal Studies) about publishing and what they wish we all knew… on.soundcloud.com/bp0fbjO0I1UX...
Showing that it's apparently far worse to point out political point scoring over a death than doing the political point scoring in the first place... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
The other categories, for those wondering are other animals (2), infrastructure (2), colours (1) and solar system (1). #afl
I’m watching the footy and amusing myself by sorting the teams into category by name. No surprise the bird category is out on top with 5 teams but a surprisingly strong showing from the people/mythic category, tying with cats (house & great) with 4 teams apiece. #afl
Somehow we got to 50 episodes….!? This one was a cracker to record and hopefully fun to listen to as well.
The 2026 #Jessup problem looks at What are “the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations”?. I do have a book on this, inspired by my own Jessup experience in 2003 where I kept asking the same question and no-one had a satisfactory answer! www.bloomsbury.com/au/general-p...
Send me your burning international law (or other!) questions as we plan to bumble our way through a Q&A for our 50th episode...
The court recalls that these AO are unlike any brought before it. But the CT can only act within its legal functions. Questions brought by the UNGA are much broader. Existential & self afflicted. Requires all humans and all human knowledge. Change our habits, comforts and way of life.
Obligation to restitute or compensate. Needs a sufficient casual nexus.
Yes, I think so! And then I paused by accident and then couldn't come back to replay it.
The question here is - is it a standalone right? Or is it inherent only?
R2E coming up now... YES
This is REALLY BIG. We haven't even got to human rights yet but the ICJ is basically saying yeah, nah to the OPEC states (and possibly a lot of the polluting states). Your bullshit convention that no-one obeys doesn't actually abdicate you of responsibility.
And again, UNFCC compliance etc not enough. 'Necessary measure' under UNCLOS is measured by objective means.
UNCLOS now - direct reference to ITLOS findings that carbon emissions can be marine pollutions.
Compliance with climate framework treaties does not mean compliance with CIL. Customary obligations are the same for all states.