Anna Saunders

Thanks to all who braved the rain for last night’s CIPL event on Trump 2.0.

I spoke on the defunding of climate science, in violation of customary law; energy policy and the idea of a human right to consume; and the rhetoric (if not always the reality) of resource militarism.

no aggressive war; no war on Iran.

thank you!!

Back in the classroom with something new: a course on International Law, Science and Technology, heavily tilted toward questions of ecology, unequal power, and subaltern science.

Lots of energy in the room from our students on Day 1, and looking forward to thinking together.

The Jewish Council of Australia condemns Benjamin Harnwell's appalling comment at the Advance conference and call on our leaders and the Antisemitism Envoy to speak out in condemnation.

US allows coal plants to emit more toxic mercury into the air Environmental Protection Agency rollback of standards marks latest move to boost fossil fuels

www.ft.com/content/d1f3...

an old-school DnD alignment chart, a grid of 3x3 squares, with the two axes being lawful to chaotic and good to evil. lawful good: a lengthy, well-formatted footnote with additional explanatory text neutral good: a note to future self of what to do with a footnote, but the full citation already pulled chaotic good: an incomplete footnote but the various authors are at least listed in brackets lawful neutral: a somewhat more restrained footnote than lawful good, without explanatory text true neutral: just the footnote chaotic neutral: a note from the author to the author, saying only "find this again!" lawful evil: a curt footnote saying "see, again:" with the full citation after it neutral evil: text, cut off by the screenshot: "I swear I read this somewhere; I've lost the bloody [...] goes to publication" chaotic evil: a completely blank footnote

I found this lying around in a random folder with other things I made in grad school: FOOTNOTE ALIGNMENT CHART

Lecturer in Law and Politics Ref Number B03-02945 Professional Expertise Academic Department UCL SLASH (B03) Location London Working Pattern Full time Salary £54,931-£64,644 Contract Type Permanent Working Type Hybrid Available for Secondment No Closing Date 23-Mar-2026

About the role UCL has a longstanding tradition of inter-disciplinarity across Law, Political Science and International Relations. We are looking to appoint as Lecturer one or more outstanding candidate(s) who will be able to contribute to UCL’s development and advancement of world leading teaching and research in both law and politics, understood broadly. The successful candidate will have their research home in the Faculty of Laws, while their teaching duties will be split across Laws and EISPS. Their teaching will include core modules offered by the Faculty of Laws in EU Law and in Public International Law (as expertise permits) aimed at students on non-law programmes, as well as elective interdisciplinary modules offered primarily by the EISPS Department, shaped by their expertise and research interests. Reflecting the broad strengths of the Faculty, we are keen for applications from a diverse range of scholars: those who take socio-legal, comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical, and/or theoretical approaches; those who adopt interdisciplinary approaches; and/or those who approach EU and Public International Law through economic analysis of law and intersecting legal subject areas. The deadline for applications is Monday 23 March 2026. Interviews will likely take place in the weeks commencing 11 or 18 May 2026. About you Successful candidates will be expected to engage in world leading research, and to contribute to UCL’s development and advancement of an interdisciplinary approach to EU Law / Public International Law and political science and other areas of law falling within their subject matter expertise. It is also expected that the post-holders will contribute to all aspects of the academic life of the Faculty and University.

Full time, permanent law and politics lecturer post at @laws.ucl.ac.uk. Background either a social scientist with law training, or a lawyer with social science interest. Teaching: either/both of introductory EU/PIL, plus specialist teaching. Civil lawyers welcome! www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

The social, the state, and the south: Afterword to the Foreword by Nehal Bhuta Abstract. Nehal Bhuta’s Foreword retrieves a historical understanding of social rights that reopens debates about what the state ought to be and how it mig

Once, Latin Americans imagined international social rights far more ambitiously than today.

My new piece, published in ICON (Open Access), builds on Nehal Bhuta's erudite history of social rights to recover that forgotten Latin American horizon.

academic.oup.com/icon/advance...

Kafka on submitting to law reviews:

right there with you. commiserations to both of us

Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education

"wars can be lost before they are even declared if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle."

Darwin traditional owners feel 'bulldozed' by ambitious solar farm company A renewable energy company planning to build a solar farm near Darwin is seeking a court ruling that no native title claim exists at the proposed site.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

🚨 The political economy of finance summer school is back, 3rd year running! Better still: We're bringing it to London via @lse-ei.bsky.social.

𝐓𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Finance & democracy
𝙳̲̲𝚊̲̲𝚝̲̲𝚎̲: 4-5 June 2026
𝘈𝘱𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦: March 1. Link below.

We've got brilliant instructors as usual. Please spread the word!

The International Journal of Law in Context is looking for a co-editor-in-chief. Terrific opportunity for socio-legal scholars out there: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

would be grateful for a copy!

Student arrested for eating AI art in UAF gallery protest — The Sun Star - UAF's Student Voice On Tuesday, January 13, University of Alaska Fairbanks undergraduate student Graham Granger was detained after he had been found “ripping artwork off the walls and eating it in a reported protest,” ac...

A University of Alaska student ate another student's artwork, when he discovered it was AI-generated www.uafsunstar.com/news/student...

For years, @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social & I have been frustrated with what we call the Part IV Problem in legal scholarship, the expectation of neat & feasible prescriptions to end pieces. Our frustrations are heightened in this moment of authoritarianism, as we wrote today at @lpeblog.bsky.social:

NSF building on Eisenhower Av. HUD now owns.

Destroying the NSF mural in the foyer. Of the Eisenhower building.

The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.

this film is so good and the composition (by Li Tavor) is haunting

m.soundcloud.com/li-tavor/pol...

looking forward to speaking some time at Sciences Po Law as a Senior Visiting Fellow from the first week of May to late June, and catching up with friends and colleagues in that quarter of the world - if passing through please get in touch!

closing in two days - join us!

Flyer mit allen Infos aus dem Post.

Materialist Feminist Analyses of Fascist Capitalism
International Workshop
Friday, 13 February 2026
Renate von Metzler-Saal (Cas. 1.801), Goethe-University Frankfurt
With Melinda Cooper, Penelope Deutscher, Clara Mattei, Vanessa E. Thompson, Vanessa Wills
Please register by February 6!

Back writing today, going back over my notes from December’s APLS workshop, and grateful all over again for the brilliant questions and hard thinking of colleagues and comrades

📢 Call for Papers 📢
2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.”
📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026
⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026
👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/
@davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social

Happy new year.

A reminder that the deadline for paper proposal for the annual workshop 2026 in Sao Paolo is this Friday 🕰️

This year's theme is "Intellectual Property and Democracy".

We hope you can join us!

Universities Need a New Defense The authoritarian threat is growing. The old playbook won’t work.

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next.
All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation."
www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

Our project 'Socialization in Theory and Practice: Democratizing Access to Land and Energy' now has its own website, including upcoming events, publications and resources on socialization and information about the project:
socializationproject.de

Absolutely disgraceful from the Adelaide Festival.
I hope other participants reconsider their part in it.