Regina Jefferies

Is There a Duty to Repatriate in International Law? As thousands of foreign nationals stranded in Iran and Israel wait for repatriation flights, governments are scrambling to find safe ways to evacuate them. With airspace closed, land border crossings ...

Do governments have a duty to repatriate people under international law? We explain in this new blog @reginajefferies.bsky.social @kaldorcentre.bsky.social www.ejiltalk.org/is-there-a-d...

+1 The character arcs are good and there's a lot less yelling.

Excellent analysis by @reginajefferies.bsky.social from @kaldorcentre.bsky.social

Catch me with Damien Carrick on The Law Report @abcaustralia.bsky.social breaking down the latest SCOTUS opinions, as well as the Court's continued willingness to empower an increasingly authoritarian executive.
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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?
Our own @profjmcadam.bsky.social, Dr Thomas Mulder & @reginajefferies.bsky.social explain what international law says ...
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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.

2,700 Australians in the Middle East are looking for assisted departure, Defence Minister Richard Marles told
ABC Afternoon Briefing today.
@profjmcadam.bsky.social @reginajefferies.bsky.social &
Thomas Mulder on evacuations law in @aunz.theconversation.com
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Our latest piece on the repatriation of citizens by Australia, with @profjmcadam.bsky.social and Thomas Mulder in @theconversation.com

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"The government has a duty of care and has to be assured there is a safe way to evacuate people." I spoke to SBS News about evacuating Australians from Iran and Israel.

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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...

I think we probably know the answer, given the January 6 response.

Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right

Meanwhile, in actual US terrorism and public safety news:
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It's almost like the non-Muslim majority countries were added to the current travel ban for some other reason...

And INA 243(d) already provides an avenue to impose visa sanctions and suspend the issuance of both IV and NIVs for countries that refuse to accept deportees. Which, the Trump Admin has previously used to do just that. Suspension under INA 212(f) isn't necessary.

Isn't it interesting that of the 12 countries subject to the full suspension of travel under the Trump travel ban, the rationale for the only 4 non-Muslim majority countries (except Haiti) rests only on the overstay and failure to accept return of deportees rationale?

New global treaty must address disaster displacement: Kaldor Centre Policy Brief The latest Kaldor Centre Policy Brief highlights how States can cooperate to protect people caught up in disasters – including when disaster drives them from their home.

Govts are drafting the first-ever global treaty on disasters –
but without key changes, it risks leaving displaced people behind.
In a just-released Policy Brief, @profjmcadam.bsky.social & Dr Thomas Mulder explain how small changes to the text could protect lives.
📘 Learn more: bit.ly/3Zn17hB

6/ - Postcolonial and decolonial perspectives on air, atmosphere, and sovereignty
- Aerial/atmospheric imaginaries and critical theory

5/ - Legal responses to air’s materiality—its fluidity, volatility, and transboundary nature
- Outer space governance, including space mining and extraterrestrial law
- Air pollution, atmospheric regulation, and climate justice
- Bushfires, smoke hazards, and air as a medium of crisis

4/ - Migration, bordering and mobility via air travel, surveillance, and aerial removals
- How international aviation law intersects with the law of the sea and territorial sovereignty
- Search and rescue (SAR) zones, flight information regions (FIR), and aerial border enforcement

3/ Bringing air into critical legal thought on territory expands how we understand law’s reach and limits. We welcome contributions that interrogate air as both a site of legal governance and a force that unsettles legal orders, including:

2/ Legal geographies of migration have primarily focused on land and sea, while air—as a physical element and legal construct—remains undertheorised. Yet movement, displacement, and border enforcement occur in and through the air, governed by legal regimes around airspace, aviation, and atmosphere.

1/ Our CfP for the #ExeterCLC stream 'Where’s the air? Rethinking Legal Geographies Beyond Land and Sea' is now live, with submissions due 1 August 2025. Please send your abstract to angela.smith1@unsw.edu.au and r.jefferies@unsw.edu.au
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The draft program for the world's best-sized international law conference, ANZSIL 2025, is now out at anzsil.org.au/event-6142429 *

And yes, there will be a #CalledToTheBar live recording after the official conference closes on Friday 4 July!

(*Please let me know if you spot any errors.)

honestly wish people would just stick to becoming influencers by peddling shitty wellness schemes and posting about their fitness vacations, rather than pretending to care about, well, really anything else.

Person in a hat carrying a French Bulldog in a backpack.

One of us loves the beach and the other does not know where the camera is.

Do you have expertise in international disaster law, including knowledge of DRM and DRR? Come join @kaldorcentre.bsky.social as a PostDoc to explore how States are (or are not) integrating evacuations in their domestic DRR, DRM and related frameworks! bit.ly/43QNEBY

I wish I could go back to thinking that secured transactions was just about not taking checks.

International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn Abstract. Significant changes in social sciences often herald changes in legal theory, including in international legal theory. In light of the cognitive t

Finally there and open access! Thanks to all 16 generous and adventurous authors of the 13 chapters of this book, including my wonderful co-editor Moshe Hirsch. With gratitude also to OUPLaw

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International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn Abstract. Significant changes in social sciences often herald changes in legal theory, including in international legal theory. In light of the cognitive t

I'm excited to share that International Legal Theory & the Cognitive Turn, w/ eds @avanaaken.bsky.social
& Moshe Hirsch, is available open access @oxfordunipress.bsky.social. Grateful to have contributed a chapter on Transnational Legal Process, Cognition & Context academic.oup.com/book/59804