Stephen Young

Yay! The gang's gettin' back together! @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social @steveisinotago.bsky.social & Harry Hobbs officially launch their book & explore the mysterious world of 'Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens'!

Australian Progressive Legal Studies is back with a call for papers on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarianism. If you want to help us understand WTF is going on, send us your abstract by the 11th of July.

We are-ahem-low budget, so we can only help with domestic travel.

A wrinkle: I've noticed on my own docs that if I save a new version, the editing timer restarts. So if a student saves a version before submitting it (which they should do) it would only show up as being edited for a few minutes.

This is underrated

He is also a Sox fan. No shortage of faith.

We will finally have deep dish sanctified as the pizza of God.

I mean, wow, Joe. Now I've discovered how many hours I've wasted on nonsense.

Wow, Joe. I'm going to have to look into this.

there are too many ways to spell it and none of them seem to matter

The GOP cannot be considered "conservative" and they're not "progressive". They must be "regressive" and the DNC have become "conservatives". Right?

How do you see 2min editing time on the doc?

YouTube video by The Daily Show Jon explains how the right confuses the profit/hate-driven social media algorithm with "free" speech

The medium is the message: youtube.com/shorts/Z64qj...

I wrote a little thing for CLT. Read it here.

Join us in Ōtautahi/Christchurch for the 2025 LSAANZ conference!

The theme: "how we can reimagine our socio-legal relationships in ways that foster resilience and better reflect our reciprocal relationships with each other and the world we live in."

www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academ...

We need a tariff tracker.

It is a shame that "performative" means ersatz or going thru the motions, but at least some theories of performative acts allow for these type of dominant re-ascriptions.

Consider writing a key concept! One of my most cited pieces is a key concept for CLT (while proud of this, my other work is just not cited often 😅 regardless, it is good to do).

Key Concept: Securitization (Copenhagen School) The concept of “securitization” was developed by the Copenhagen School to analyze the process whereby powerful actors such as governments identify a

On CLT we want to expand our key concepts page. If you have the time, we would love to see more concepts like this on securitisation, that has just gone up. They get a MASSIVE audience (often in the tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands): criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/31/k...

Hi all, Harry Hobbs, Yasmin Olsen and I are hosting a workshop on the intersection of Indigenous Sovereignty and Sovereign Citizens in November 2025. Please share our CFP and consider submitting an abstract! Thanks.

The Structural Limits of the Law: The Event Horizon of Legality This book examines how, in response to crises, law tends to construct singular ‘events’ that obscure the underlying structural causes that any adequate response needs to acknowledge and address.  Liti...

Anyone willing to write a review of my book: www.routledge.com/The-Structur...? The Otago Law Review wants to publish one. Of course, I'll send you a copy. Let me know!