Call for Papers - Legal History in Asia and Beyond: Lessons from the Past for the Present

17-18 March (Hong Kong) & 23 March (Oxford) 2026 (participants can join in either location)

Deadline 31 October 2025

www.law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/c...

New 'Impact Talks at UTS' Episode 25, The Right to Housing with @utsintlaw.bsky.social's @drjessiehohmann.bsky.social
pod.link/1760672339/e...

Important, but probably under most people's radar:
The Inter American Court of Human Rights has issued an advisory opinion on care work, both paid and unpaid (currently only available in Spanish).
@minmaxsunt.bsky.social - this will be of interest to you, I think.

As I wrote last year in @justsecurity.org, Israel’s pager attack in Lebanon violated the law of war.

www.justsecurity.org/103184/amend...

It's that time of the year again folks, get your nerd hat on

Great to welcome our new PhD and LLM candidates to the UTS Faculty of Law this week. Their work will make a great contribution on human rights, feminist theory, disability, First Nations, and social justice all close to @utsintlaw.bsky.social's heart.

This is a problem w/ #genocide. States (& other entities) wait until people die before they call it. But genocide is a process that starts long before the dying. My book details this process & why we should focus on all the genocide crimes, not just 'killing'. www.routledge.com/From-Discrim...

Niche post, while reading ICJ oral submissions: no one, not even the US counsel, seems to mention the 'rules based international order' before the ICJ. It's 'international law' all down the line. Make of *that* what you will.

@utsintlaw.bsky.social Dr Kathryn Greenman, quizmaster @anzsil.org #ANZSIL2025 administering a ferociously tricky IL quiz

@utsintlaw.bsky.social's members and friends in sunny Canberra #ANZSIL25

Phoebe Okowa giving an excellent Kirby Lecture on climate change obligations and the forthcoming ICJ Advisory Op #ANZSIL2025 @anzsil.org

Making linguistic diversity visible in parliament In parliament of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) in 2014, parliamentarian Mr Troy Grant spoke in Wiradjuri in a speech about the North West Wiradjuri Language And Cultural Nest. The H…

Dr Alex Grey from @utsintlaw.bsky.social has new research out on Indigenous language use in Australia's parliaments. Full text is open access (DOI 10.1080/07268602.2025.2503862) & enjoy this blog with bonus content! www.languageonthemove.com/making-lingu... (Thanks @languageonthemove.bsky.social)

A graphic depiction of a blind-folded Justitia with a scale and a sword as the logo of the "Outstanding Women of International, European and Constitutional Law" project

For July's portrait of "Outstanding Women", ALENA SCHRÖDER tells the story of Cecilia Medina Quiroga.

A Chilean lawyer, judge, and professor, she fought for women’s rights – notably in the IACtHR's historic “Cotton Field Femicide” case over which she presided.

verfassungsblog.de/outstanding-...

@utsintlaw.bsky.social's academics and PhDs are at #ANZSIL this week, talking about TWAIL perspective on deep seabed mining, Ecuador's claim to Antarctica, histories of risk and due diligence in IL, and feeding the San Fran conference on International Organization.

Book Review II of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order The AfCFTA, which aims at setting up a single market for goods and services ‘from Cairo to Cape Town’, is the subject of the eloquent monograph written by Professor Kufuor. The author, a well-known sc...

Book Review II of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order by Konstantinos D. Magliveras

www.afronomicslaw.org/category/ana...

Book Review I of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order - The Problem of Protectionism in Africa This paper explores the persistence of protectionist trade policies across Africa and their implications for economic development, regional integration, and the African Continental Free Trade Area (Af...

Book Review I of The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement: The Development of a Rules-Based Trading Order - The Problem of Protectionism in Africa by Emmanuel Opoku Awuku
www.afronomicslaw.org/category/ana...

Australia must stand firm in its support for a rules-based order and reject any US requests for military aid | Donald Rothwell Labor governments have a proud history of supporting the UN charter. The Albanese government must continue it

“Australia must stand firm in its support for a rules-based order and reject any US requests for military aid”

Completely agree with my colleague Prof Don Rothwell.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I had the honour of being featured in an episode of my friend Suren Manukyan's podcast, Unfiltered History, discussing the history of international criminal law. This link is in English; Armenian version available soon. Hopefully of use to non-lawyers & #intlaw students. youtu.be/JKHj0hdd9Gw?...

Australian citizens in Iran and Israel are desperate to leave. Is the government required to help? While the Australian government has frequently helped its citizens flee crises overseas, it is not legally obligated to do so. And repatriating citizens is complex.

Does the Australian government have a duty to repatriate citizens and permanent residents stuck in Iran and Israel? Thomas Mulder, @reginajefferies.bsky.social and I explain what international law says ... theconversation.com/australian-c...

Now available open access, including contributions by @utsintlaw.bsky.social's Colin Hawes 'Developing a Hybrid Chinese-International E-Commerce Platform Ecosystem'
www.cambridge.org/au/universit...

Student Debt w/ Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Mike Pierce Featuring Ryann Liebenthal, Chenjerai Kumanyika, and Mike Pierce on Ryann’s book Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. Interview by guest host Astra Taylor.

Dig! @astra.bsky.social interviews @ryannliebenthal.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @millennialdebt.bsky.social on Ryann's Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. How we got individualized student debt instead of socialized higher ed for all. thedigradio.com/podcast/stud...

Book cover of Race and the Question of Palestine Edited by Lana Tatour and Ronit Lentin

Race and the Question of Palestine is an essay collection that explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a classificatory system.

www.sup.org/books/middle...

@fleurjohns.bsky.social on Trump and Consular Internationalism

Decades on from the Royal Commission, why are Indigenous people still dying in custody? Indigenous people are again grieving the deaths of loved ones in custody. Would they have occurred if the royal commission recommendations had been fully implemented?

Decades on from the Royal Commission, why are Indigenous people still dying in custody? UTS Law's Thalia Anthony and Eddie Cubillo:
theconversation.com/decades-on-f...

Port of Darwin’s struggling Chinese leaseholder may welcome an Australian buy-out The biggest threat posed by the Chinese-owned Port of Darwin is not security-related but is the risk of the struggling owners becoming insolvent.

UTS Int Law's Colin Hawes comments on the Port of Darwin Controversy in @theconversation.com
Port of Darwin’s struggling Chinese leaseholder may welcome an Australian buy-out theconversation.com/port-of-darw...