Sonya Cotton

So excited for this event!

Please sign! "No academia as usual during Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide in Palestine. Faculty and staff in European higher education and research call on our academic leaders to end bilateral agreements with Israeli institutions"

uppsaladeclaration.se/european-dec...

Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social

📣 New journal article by @amandabyer.bsky.social just published!

'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)

Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...

Blog Post: From Blue Zone to Courtroom: Some Reflections on Loss and Damage, Liability, and the Case for Climate Reparations Patrick Toussaint Loss and damage from climate change is no longer a future scenario but the lived reality for millions around the world. And yet, despite over three decades of multilateral negotia…

Dr. Patrick Toussaint considers the evolving approaches to the climate crisis, from loss and damage to reparations and draws on personal links to climate vulnerable regions in Africa and the diaspora to highlight what's at stake in the fight for climate justice elajucd.com/2025/05/05/f...

Sinn Féin having more to say about the Norman invasion than they do about the British cultural invasion of transphobia into this country that’s happening right now rather than 1000 years ago is such a fucking own goal

Worthwhile read for cis people to understand what trans people have to go through in Ireland, if they want to access healthcare through the National Gender Service (derogatory).

It was wonderful to have the Property[in]Justice gals (including @sineadmercier.bsky.social and @amandabyer.bsky.social) together again. Thank you so much @owenmcintyre.bsky.social for this brilliant conference, very impressed that you even managed to make the weather amazing for the event.

Sherine Al Shallah and Lucas Lixinski on Cultural Objects

Who owns culture?
At #SydneyWritersFest, our own Sherine Al Shallah and
UNSW law professor Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social will unpack the ethical & legal dilemmas of cultural objects.
Mark your calendar now for this free Curiosity Lecture
📅 22 May⏰ 2pm www.swf.org.au/program/seas...

Building care-full futures requires ways of living that break the norms - "we need to practice these ways of being... not wait for them to appear at the end of the road"🌱Check out a chapter with the amazing @claradf.bsky.social 🐌 in Post-Growth Future(s) ipe.hr/wp-content/u...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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Genuinely couldn't have predicted that these words would ever manifest inside me, but I sincerely think the GDPR is the most important piece of legislation to emerge from Europe and is doing the most at holding things together. Unexpected (and admittedly dry) addition to the anti-Fascism canon.

Blog Post: Gender Shaping Climate Change – Courts, Data, and Harm Christie Nicoson There is a notable gender imbalance in climate decision-making, with only around 20% of countries sending women to the United Nations climate negotiations,[1] and court decisions h…

"Climate change is a gender issue" writes @cjnicoson.bsky.social. Read more at elajucd.com/2025/03/01/b...

This Thursday (10th April) at 6pm in Dublin! Asylum Under Pressure with
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...

In 2023, and despite lack of government opposition, a Bill to protect Ireland's environment and meet climate goals lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil. Jamie McLoughlin explores this innovative and potentially transformative Bill in more detail: elajucd.com/2025/03/15/a...

"The proposed mining application in the Sperrin mountains not only has serious implications for human and animal health across our island, but also for the natural and cultural heritage of one of our island’s most precious landscapes." Read EJNI @ejni.bsky.social report at: ejni.net/wp-content/u...

EJNI @ejni.bsky.social have published this helpful report on the gold mine application for the Sperrin Mountains (NI) & transboundary consultation with the south: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social

Well done to the incredible Dr Ng'etich for defending his Viva! I am so proud of you and so honoured to have been your colleague for the last four years.

There is no dignity watching universities, companies, grifters, countries scrambling to "embrace AI". Reminds me of other infamous geopolitical races to carve up continents. This famously does not end well.

Protest graphic by Jews for Palestine Ireland. Protest: Oppose Deportations. Solidarity with the #Berlin4 Monday April 7 1pm Department of foriegn affairs 80 Stephen's Green

Ending my social media hiatus cus we need bodies at this thing tomorrow

The 2023 biodiversity COP (COP15) received little media attention compared to climate COP27, and generated little public attention compared to Taylor Swift

Genuinely weird how little interest there is in maintaining life on Earth
www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How

Just as it's evil to privitise water (hi #Nestlé), Big Tech finds ways to monetise our most mammalian impulses to be in community with each other. I'm in the process of disengaging with #Meta (incl #Whatsapp). Hope to see you on the other side. It's greener and less complicit in war crimes

well HELLO there. Incredible name btw

Raveena Tamoria and I gave an introduction to landscape law to landscape planners, landscape architects and landscape geographers. Landscape reclaiming its legal identity is so important for climate justice, cultural rights and environmental protection.
Learn more here: landscaperesearch.org

My book Placing Property has officially reached 10k downloads!
This book explains how property is rooted in spatial injustice.
Thank you to everyone who downloaded and shared my work!
Hopefully this empowers people to think about how to reimagine land law.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

This looks really cool!

Sonya's PhD examined how 'community' can work in international law to inhibit justice & climate action. Dedicated, precise & grounded, she drove 100s of miles across Namibia & South Africa interviewing affected groups. A brilliant thinker. Hire her asap Ireland, she'll be snapped up internationally!

Go raibh maith agat. Honestly, I am so inspired by and in awe of you, Sinéad. You bring creativity, wonder and genuine feeling into everything you do and I am so happy that I got to work with you.