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Fleur Johns

@fleurjohns.bsky.social
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Dean & Head of School, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. International law, legal theory, law & technology etc. Latest books: tinyurl.com/HelpBookOUP & tinyurl.com/2cv626hf (Views expressed here are mine not those of my employer.)

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Thao Phan @thaophan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
New chapter from @smwark.bsky.social and me on the algorithmic construction of race via proxy logics 💫 Part of a superb open access volume on Global Governance by Data, Eds Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social, Gavin Sullivan, and Demitri Van Den Meerssche www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Limn is an exquisite journal illuminating (or limning) problems emerging at the interface of technology, politics, & contemporary life: limn.press I have a short essay in the latest issue, 'When the grounds shake', about platformised tsunami warning and parasitism: limn.press/article/when...
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
How do we, how can we, how might we, think about the 'right now' in international legal work? I just shared on SSRN a preprint of an article forthcoming in the Edinburgh Law Review entitled 'International Legal Critique Now: Neo-Presentism in International Law'. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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<p><span>International Legal Critique Now: Neo-Presentism in International Law</span></p>
<p><span>How are scholars of law, especially international law, struggling to diagnose and inhabit the present? And how do those various efforts speak to one an
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Hello all. My OA article “Palliative Presentism & Its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces” has been published in the European Journal of International Law. It is about time, technology, humanitarian emergencies & international law. academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
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Palliative Presentism and Its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces
Abstract. International organizations (IOs) are having growing recourse to digital technologies in emergency response. Digital interfaces, such as online e
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Victoria Adelmant @victoriaadamant.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
How does the design of digital govt infrastructure impact decision-making & accountability? @jenraso.bsky.social & I argue that data-sharing arrangements underlying digital govt programs are dispersing responsibilities within decision-making, generating what we call 'bureaucratic disempowerment' 1/4
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Data Entry and Decision Chains: Distributed Responsibility and Bureaucratic Disempowerment in the UK’s Universal Credit Programme
Abstract. Digitalising public programmes creates new accountability challenges, many of which are under-theorised. Using Universal Credit to illustrate its
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
To the extent that Trump’s foreign policy has a coherent logic, that logic — the accompanying conception of state territory & national interest etc — is best understood through the historical & legal lens of consular internationalism rather than diplomatic relations www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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On consular internationalism | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
On consular internationalism
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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Great hybrid-conversation at the Law & Society conference about our book (co-ed by Gavin Sullivan, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social & me) Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule, f’coming open access with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. 🙏to Gavin & to @mattcanfield.bsky.social for comments.
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Dimitri Van Den Meerssche @dimitrivdm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🔥🔥🔥 Excited to share this collection in @ejiltalk.bsky.social: International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading. 👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays. t.co/bd0DOcbXKp
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Itamar Mann @itamann.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Thanks to the editors of @verfassungsblog.de for publishing this new short essay, somewhat bleak, but it did give me the privilege of linking to work by my better half. verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave...
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
For anyone thinking about doing a PhD in Law, expressions of interest for Pitch-a-PhD at The University of Sydney Law School are now open for international applicants. Please share widely. Submission link: lnkd.in/gcibSc9g Scholarships info here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Ernst Fraenkel’s work is worth revisiting but the “dual state” as a diagnosis of contemporary authoritarianism (A) is misguided insofar as it maintains the separability of a “zone of legality” from a “legal abyss”, absolving the former of responsibility for A’s rise www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...
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The Frightening Precedents for Trump’s ‘Legal Abyss’
The ‘dual-state theory’ explains how authoritarians bend the law to their will.
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
In this OA article in the Leiden Journal of Int’l Law, I argue that the distinctive logic of consular internationalism can aid analysis of entanglements of imperial & commercial power & grappling with unofficial actors’ role in shaping international law www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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On consular internationalism | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
On consular internationalism
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AJIL and AJIL Unbound @ajil.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 10/03/2025
📢 Out now! #DigitalEchoes: Season 2 – 'Listening to New Normativities' New episodes 📼 every second Monday on Völkerrechtsblog & Spotify! Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke. voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
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Introducing the Second Seasons of Digital Echoes
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Our edited collection on 'Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System' will be out in January 2025. A big thanks to co-editors Shirley Scott and Jeff McGee and to the contributors for making this project possible. link.springer.com/book/9789819...
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Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System
This book explores all aspects of geopolitical considerations between key states of the Antarctica Treaty System (ATS) and lessons that can be gained.
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Belinda Reeve @belindareeve.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
New publication alert ⚠️ We evaluated controls on food marketing in six different jurisdictions, producing recommendations for effective, transparent, and accountable regulation. Key takeaway: good regulatory design is just as important as regulatory tool choice. Full version: shorturl.at/ky4fp
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Reducing unhealthy food and beverage advertising to children: a framework for strengthening performance, transparency and enforcement
Food and beverage multinationals spend vast sums of money marketing unhealthy foods and drinks to children, using an integrated array of advertising techniques and media platforms. Countries have resp...
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Rosemary Grey @rosemarygrey.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Interested in competing ideas of "gender" in international criminal law? I'll be chatting next week on this with the brilliant Akila Radhakrishnan, Valerie Oosterveld, Lily Kather, Juliana Santos de Carvalho & Lena Holzer. Tune in on Monday 3 February at 10am, Cambridge time.
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Nanna B Thylstrup @nannathylstrup.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Check out @louravn.bsky.social's wonderful interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social in Critical Humanities - it's OA and is of interest to anyone interested in critical data studies, humanitarianism and interdisciplinary legal perspectives to datafication @tgammeltoft.bsky.social #DALOSS #MOBILE
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I’m so grateful to @louravn.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about some of the arguments in my @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book ‘#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order’ in the Critical Humanities journal 👇
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Thomas Streinz @streinz.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The paper seeks to contribute to broader questions about global data/infrastructure governance. The final version of the paper will be published in a volume on governance by data edited by @fleurjohns.bsky.social @dimitrivdm.bsky.social and Gavin Sullivan.
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
I have a new article forthcoming in the European Journal of International Law (@ejiltalk.bsky.social): 'Palliative Presentism and its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces'. It is available via SSRN pending publication: ssrn.com/abstract=505... Below is an abstract:
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Conversations with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & Dr. Mohammad Amir Anwar led to this dialogue on the limits of digital dispossession as a lens onto exploitation & domination in the digital economy in the Backchannels blog of @4sweb.bsky.social of which Nanna gives a great preview. I echo her thanks.
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
As reports have come in about devastating flooding in Malaysia & Thailand, it’s time to step up ambition & engagement in regional disaster diplomacy, as I write today in The Interpreter published by @lowyinstitute.bsky.social www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Australia is out to lunch on disaster diplomacy
Despite multiple strategies, frameworks and partnerships, Canberra still lags on regional disaster relief.
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Douglas Guilfoyle @djag2.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference! The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University. The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’. Please re-post!
Dear ANZSIL members and friends,

ANZSIL Annual Conference 2025: Save the Date and Conference Theme

It is with great pleasure that the ANZSIL Annual Conference Organising Committee announces the dates, location and theme of the ANZSIL Annual Conference 2025!

The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held on Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia.

The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’.

The Postgraduate Research Student Workshop will be held on Tuesday 1 July 2025.

Save the dates now!  The Call for Papers will be issued shortly.

We look forward to seeing you in Canberra in July 2025.

Best wishes,

Imogen Saunders and Douglas Guilfoyle (Co-Chairs of the ANZSIL Conference Organising Committee 2025)
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Veronica Botticelli @veronicabotticelli.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many (Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
After COVID foiled October plans, I am especially pleased to have made it to Edinburgh Law School to deliver the 2nd of their 2024 Dean's Lectures at Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College, on Wed 20 November 2024 17:00-18:30, on ‘International Legal Critique Now’ www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Rescheduled: Dean's Lecture: (International) Legal Critique Now | Edinburgh Law School
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I’m looking forward to giving the inaugural annual lecture of SCRIPT, the Scottish Research Centre for IP & Technology Law, at the University of Edinburgh: ‘On Tech Diplomacy & Dilemmas of human-nonhuman interface’ 25 Nov 2024, 17:30 - 20:00 www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
with the final round of UN plastics treaty negotiations in two weeks, we have published a preprint paper on the risks and limits of 'plastic credits' as a solution to this planetary crisis @melaniebergma18.bsky.social @emmaanne.bsky.social @lisalsong.bsky.social zenodo.org/records/1411...
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Unpacking plastic credits: Challenges to effective and just global plastics governance
Amid growing concerns over plastic pollution and ongoing efforts to develop a global plastics treaty, this paper critically examines plastic credits as a compensatory measure for addressing plastic po...
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
I have a new paper, forthcoming (open access) in the Leiden Journal of International Law, entitled 'On Consular Internationalism'. A preprint is now available at SSRN : papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Thank you to Renske Vos & the entire LJIL team. Here's the abstract:
his article focuses international legal scholars' attention on consular relations, consular work, and related international law. It does so for two main reasons. First, as scholars of diplomatic history and international relations have observed, consular work is of growing significance in global affairs. Second, this article pursues a hunch that there may be unrealised possibilities for thinking about international law, and grappling afresh with its dilemmas, through a consular optic. International law conducted through consular offices and officials advances views of the international legal plane, its key actors, and relations among them, that are distinguishable from those advanced by diplomacy and international law as traditionally conceived, it is here shown. This article theorizes this distinctive logic as consular internationalism. Its argument is that consular internationalism is a richer resource for thought and practice in international law than commonly acknowledged. It is especially relevant, this article aims to show, for analysing historical and contemporary entanglements of imperial and commercial power, grappling with the role of lay people and unofficial communities in shaping international legal order, and, potentially, supporting anti-hierarchical struggles.
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Wonderful to have a 'Conversation with Book' Symposium in the International Trade & Business Law Review focus on my book #Help: Digital Humanitarianism & the Remaking of International Order (OUP) 🙏 to Cynthia Farid, Morshed Mannan, Michael Anthony C. Dizon & the ITBLR team. tinyurl.com/ITBLR
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Sonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social · 25/09/2024
Come work with me and @wombatscholar.bsky.social at USYD! We have a 2-year postdoc for an early career anthropologist or STS scholar to conduct research on the social, political, and epistemic aspects of medical research and public health. See bit.ly/3XVvhsd. Applications close October 22.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Full time, 24-month fixed-term position Contribute to world-class research in health social sciences Base Salary Level A1-B2 $86,584 - $127,433 + 17% superannuation About the opportunity The School of...
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Völkerrechtsblog @voelkerrechtsblog.org · 26/02/2024
Listen the first episode of our Digital Echoes audio symposium! 🔉🎤🎧 Matilda Arvidsson, @fleurjohns.bsky.social, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social, Andrea Leiter & Delphine Dogot explore how they each came to engage with international law and technology. voelkerrechtsblog.org/1st-episode-...
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1st Episode: Opening Conversation
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
I am looking forward to delivering the 9th Annual T.M.C. Asser Lecture at the Peace Palace in The Hague on 25 April 2024 and grateful to the T.M.C. Asser Institute for the invitation. All those able to join in person will be very warmly welcomed. www.asser.nl/about-the-as...
The Peace Palace in The Hague
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The LPE Project @lpeproject.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
The LPE Project is delighted to announce that we are teaming up with @peoplesparity.bsky.social to offer an open course/reading group (for EVERYONE not just law students/profs) on one of the most urgent political questions of our time: WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE COURTS?! lpeproject.org/events/open-...
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Open Course: What To Do About the Courts
The Law and Political Economy Project and the People's Parity Project are teaming up to offer an open course/reading group on the urgent question of what to do about the courts in our current…
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Samuel Moyn @samuelmoyn.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Brief comments on the Frankfurt School centenary onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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David Armitage @davidrarmitage.bsky.social · 18/12/2023
My tribute to the late, great John Pocock (1924-2023): folgerpedia.folger.edu/J._G._A._Poc...
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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 22/12/2023
[Unbelievably excited to announce] A two-year postdoctoral appointment in LABOR HISTORY, 1500-Present. Brown University, Department of History Applications due 2/15/24
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
After a hiatus, the American Journal of International Law short video series 'AJIL Bookmarked' is back with a new release. This time, I bookmarked a 1926 AJIL article by Francis Deák on "Computation of Time in International Law". Take a look here: youtu.be/Z6pB-Bg26Bg?si…
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AJIL Bookmarked - Fleur Jones on "Computation of Time in International Law"
Fleur Johns, of the AJIL Board of Editors, discusses "Computation of Time in International Law" in this episode of AJIL Bookmarked. Learn more and read the a...
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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
some brilliant warwick PGRs are organising a conference in february. the topic is law v humanity (which seems very pertinent now) and it's open to LLM research students, PhDs and post-docs. so apply apply and encourage your students to apply apply
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Warwick Law School PGR Conference 2024
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
New to Bluesky — hello! — and reminded of my first experiences on the bird app, when it felt more like a conversation than a data onslaught.
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Australian Feminist Law Journal @aflj.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
In 2023, the AFLJ celebrates its 30th anniversary!🎉 We'll celebrate sharing some of our favourite publications. Today's is Maria Giannacopoulos': "White Law/Black Deaths: Nomocide and the Foundational Absence of Consent in Australian Law". #Openaccess here 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Fleur Johns @fleurjohns.bsky.social · 05/12/2023
Call for nominations for the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law
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