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A/Prof Narrelle Morris

@narrellemorris.bsky.social
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Curtin Law School. Legal history, statutory interpretation, research and writing. Japan. Permanently at risk of being squashed by books in my office.

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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My colleague Paul Taucher has published his first book! 🍾 If you are in to war crimes (in a respectable way) buy it for your library. Or even if you are not. We once prosecuted for command responsibility in Australia and here is that history. hkupress.hku.hk/Command_On_T...
hkupress.hku.hk
Command on Trial: Japanese Officers, War Crimes, and Command Responsibility
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My colleague Paul Taucher has published his first book! 🍾 If you are in to war crimes (in a respectable way) buy it for your library. Or even if you are not. We once prosecuted for command responsibility in Australia and here is that history. hkupress.hku.hk/Command_On_T...
hkupress.hku.hk
Command on Trial: Japanese Officers, War Crimes, and Command Responsibility
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is so going in my teaching materials for statutory interpretation next year!
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Got one of those patently AI drafted email attempts to engage today which, despite disclaimer shown, has ChatGPT in the URLs on the links. Here’s the kicker … sent to me but NOT about one of my pubs. Addressed to a completely different academic by name about his book! Sent to me. Twice, no less.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is f**king horrifying on so many levels www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
Macquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjects
University’s move is part of trend that critics within academia say will lead to further staff cuts and loss of ‘everything that makes the job worth doing’
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
And so not reassuring to be told by an MP that MPs are broadly using Gen AI themselves.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Happy Wattle Day, brought to you by UTas Faculty of Law last week!
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
And eight men at a time it seems. Photos say a lot sometimes.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
How awesome
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
In beautiful Hobart for war crimes. Clarification: reading proofs of. Lots of work ahead but vol 2 should be published in January.
Proofs of vol 2 of the Law Reports SeriesKunanyi with snow
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We should equally celebrate the libraries which diligently list each chapter of an edited book in their catalogue enabling gems to be found in otherwise innocuously titled books! Looking at you Peace Palace Library in Den Haag! 🍾
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Now we just need to persuade our own law schools that this is the way.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Watching the GenAI and legal practice space is like the gift that keeps on giving.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is oddly fascinating reading.
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Prof Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Due to several retirements, UWA #Law School is recruiting multiple positions from Lvls B-D (lecturer, snr lecturer, Assoc Prof). See ad for topic areas BUT we could also really use a feminist/gender & the law person!! #job #jobFairy #academia #Perth #AUS external.jobs.uwa.edu.au/cw/en/job/52...
external.jobs.uwa.edu.au
Prospective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Legal academic friends ... has anyone got access to this: Francis Bennion, 'Confusion over Plain Language Law' (2007) 16 The Commonwealth Lawyer, pp. 63-68? My university library won't even admit the journal exists! There doesn't appear to be any, umm, free floating copies around.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Oh the irony of Lexis reminding us not to upload their content into "any other AI tools".
LexisNexis kindly reminds you not to steal their content and upload it to "any other AI tools".
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Legal academic friends ... has anyone got access to this: Francis Bennion, 'Confusion over Plain Language Law' (2007) 16 The Commonwealth Lawyer, pp. 63-68? My university library won't even admit the journal exists! There doesn't appear to be any, umm, free floating copies around.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Well, this is very exciting to see! Volume 2 covers the first 80 trials out of Rabaul 1945-51, hence the (Part A) in the title. Volumes 3 and 4 will cover the remainder of the Rabaul trials.
Proposed cover page of the forthcoming volume 2 of the Law Reports Series on the Australian War Crimes Trials 1945-51 that covers the first 80 trials at Rabaul, 1945-46. Edited by Narrelle Morris and Tim McCormack.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It’s an academic thing!
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
There’s something quite disturbingly classist? Elitist? about this coverage of a junior doctor who allegedly was “involved” in a death in Fremantle. Do we get this level of attention for everyone “involved” in a death? No, it seems to me it’s entirely because he’s a university graduate and doctor ..
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I was in the final peak of undergrads in Japanese Studies in the late 1990s and I have a PhD in Japanese Studies. There’s a reason I’m an A/Prof in a law school. Asian Studies hasn’t had sustainability in 25 years. It’s almost gone. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Australia's woeful Asian languages literacy is failing us
As Asian language enrolments wither Australia is failing to make lasting ties within our region.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Honestly, what is up with the NAA RecordSearch? It's been getting slower and less responsive all week. Now, clicking on buttons like 'search' do not work, the search engine is failing to connect to the database and even if it does, it then times out! @austhistassoc.bsky.social
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Just 🤷‍♀️ at the headline but 🤦🏻‍♀️ at the time it *apparently* took to notice they were gone.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I’m so pleased that my yelling on Twitter was partially responsible for the AHA pursuing this research on the role of the book to historians! theconversation.com/australians-...
theconversation.com
Australians are hungry for new history books – but historians are pressured not to publish locally
A new study shows that workplace priorities for Australian historians make it harder for their work to reach Australian readers – despite strong public interest.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
It’s going to be interesting seeing the size of the bureaucracy that *will* be required to support this new watchdog not due to it actually be required 24/7 but to deal with the sov cits, vexatious litigants and other nutters who will bombard it.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Gah, NAA RecordSearch is down just when I need it for checking something.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Millionth example of why Google AI Overviews (indeed all Gen AIs) can't be trusted. Here is it confidently telling me that Shimokado Zentaro was an Imperial Japanese Navy officer who was tried at Rabaul for mistreating, starving and forcing labour upon POWs and the civilian population ... cont 2/
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
@drkatybarnett.bsky.social
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
CFP: Workshop The Political Afterlives of Sexual Violence Allegations: The ICC as Case Study drive.google.com/file/d/1z8Ci...
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CFP The Political Afterlives of Sexual Violence Allegations
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Legendary. Birmingham, not Om. Or maybe that should be Birmingham on Om.
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of the Netherlands @netherlandsmfa.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the International Court of Justice 🎉: a cornerstone of the international legal order. As proud host country, the Netherlands remains committed to peaceful dispute settlement and the rule of law. #ICJat80
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I offered to revise and update the finding aid to the Papers of Sir William Flood Webb KBE Kt for the Australian War Memorial and it is now 'live'! This is the sole place where you can see the hundreds of pages draft opinion that he never submitted to the IMTFE in 1948 www.awm.gov.au/collection/a...
awm.gov.au
Guide to the papers of Sir William Webb KBE Kt (1887–1972) | Australian War Memorial
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
And we need Gen AI rules for judges too, not just bland PR statements about how a court or tribunal goes about selecting and purchasing AI systems. See my article last year: search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/...
search.informit.org
Current approaches to the use of Generative AI in Australian courts and tribunals: Should Australian judges have guidelines too?
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Brian Wolven @brianwolven.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hallucinations—the other “H” index 🤦‍♂️
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Images must be submitted as original photographs only. Kodak preferred.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Owing apologies all over the bloody country at this rate!
Headline reads Could Cyclone Narelle come as far south as Perth? and the current answer to that appears to be yes.
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Jane McAdam @profjmcadam.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Evacuations Research Hub @kaldorcentre.bsky.social at UNSW Law & Justice is excited to offer two PhD scholarships in law to examine the role of evacuations in different contexts. Applications due 18 May 2026; details here: www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...
unsw.edu.au
ARC Laureate Fellowship: PhD Scholarships on Evacuations | UNSW Sydney
UNSW Law & Justice offers two PhD scholarships for researchers who are part of the Evacuations Research Hub . Join our community of scholars today.
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Oliver Bown @olliebown.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Here is a PhD position in arts law at UNSW investigating AI, copyright and the private regulation of creativity. You'll work with the fantastic @kathybowrey.bsky.social and Louise Buckingham from the Arts Law Centre of Australia, wider team myself and Marie Hadley. www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...
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Lucas Roorda @lroorda.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Oh boy do I have thoughts. Buckle up buckaroos, we're going to take some broadsides at legal academia.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Now let’s hope we see an Australian court follow suit. And also refer the lawyers for misconduct investigation leading to being struck off. Someone(s) need to be struck off for the lesson to sink in.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Vale Mason CJ. He was such a towering figure on the High Court when I was a law student. Critiqued for activism but really he and his fellow judges were just ahead of the community in recognising the inevitability of necessary change. www.smh.com.au/national/for...
smh.com.au
Former High Court chief justice Anthony Mason dies, aged 100
Mason served as chief justice from 1987 to 1995, an era defined by a series of watershed decisions including the Mabo Indigenous land rights ruling.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Ongoing apologies for this one it seems www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Tropical Cyclone Narelle could be ‘biggest system in living memory’ when it crosses Queensland coast, authorities warn
Massive storm expected to intensify to category 5 cyclone offshore before making landfall in far north Queensland on Friday
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Apologies to Queenslanders in advance www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
abc.net.au
Track Cyclone Narelle live as it approaches Queensland coast
See the latest forecast and wind speeds as the system approaches Far North Queensland.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Well. This would be hard to improve. The rage is bubbling off it.
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Journal of Australian Studies @jas-jozstudies.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
To celebrate our 50th volume, JAS invites you to contribute to a special issue on (the Journal of) Australian Studies at 50. Please see the CFP below for details - and please circulate it far and wide! @intlausstudies.bsky.social #CFP #OzStudies #OzLit #OzHist #auspol #AustralianStudies
50In 2026, the Journal of Australian Studies
publishes its 50th volume. To mark this occasion we propose a special issue for release in late 2026. For this volume, we would like to invite scholars to revisit its back issues - perhaps with nostalgia, perhaps with criticism, but always with the purpose of evaluating what Australian Studies has been, what it currently is, and what it can be.
We seek articles of that can do one or more of the following:
Select a particular article or special issue from the past to speak to from a contemporary perspective
Revisit one of your own articles published in
JAS
to critically revise, update - or perhaps redact past scholarship
Scholarly reflections of editorial experiences with the journal focused on characterising “Australian Studies” at the time
Critical personal reflections
Debates and disputes in Australian studies (on the pages and off of
JAS
)
A critical history of/commentary on
JAS
and its relationship to the field of Australian Studies more broadly
Critical reviews of key themes the journal has covered (or not covered) over its history
Critical reviews of the role of disciplines and disciplinarity within the interdisciplinary formation of Australian Studies
We also welcome other proposals and suggestions. Please note that we are open to a wide range of lengths and formats in this context, as appropriate to the form of your contribution, and we invite contributors to specify a nominal word count in their proposal, noting that this cannot exceed 8000 words (inclusive of footnotes).
We invite all contributors to provide a 300-500 word
abstract proposal for their article by 30 March 2026
. This is to allow us to identify and remedy any potential overlaps, and to identify peer reviewers in advance.
Outcomes and feedback on abstracts will be provided by 3 April
at the latest. Please submit your abstracts to:
journalofaustralianstudies@gmail.com
with the subject line:
Attn: JAS at 50 Special Issue.
Initial manuscripts are due in ScholarOne by 17 July 2026
; however, we welcome early submissions.
All manuscripts will be peer reviewed. In the spirit of collaboration, we ask that contributors to the special issue also assist with peer reviewing other contributions. After revisions based on the peer review are made, manuscripts will undergo an editorial review, after which they may be returned for further revisions. After this round of editorial revisions, the manuscripts will then be forwarded to our copyeditor by no later than 28 August. Final manuscripts (including peer review, revision, copyediting, and revisions after copyediting) are due by 9 October 2026.
If you have any questions, please email the Editors:
jess.carniel@unisq.edu.au
and
chris.hay@flinders.edu.au
Production timeline at a glance
Abstracts:
30 March 2026
Notification of acceptance:
3 April 2026
Initial manuscript submission:
17 July 2026
Peer review and revision process completed by:
28 August 2026
Final manuscripts (including peer review and copyediting)
: 9 October 2026
Publication:
December 2026
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Let’s hope so? No sympathy here for either but it sounds like a marvellous opportunity for someone to return for their hat. www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-a...
smh.com.au
‘Kyle will definitely sue’: Sandilands and ARN face ugly legal stoush
Sources said Sandilands is preparing to sue his employer if the company sacks the controversial broadcaster.
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Keeping in mind that reading at night in 1908 is mostly still by gas light or candle light, although electricity is on the way in in Australia. So yes, reading probably did induce eye strain issues, no matter who it was.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The Epstein files name prominent Australians and senior US and UK officials. I’m calling on the Australian Government to order an independent review for survivors, for accountability, and for our national security. No one is above the law. Full statement 👇
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Extreme lawful evil is a pub with dense paragraphs with 1 footnote at the end of each and ~10+ sources sans page now. It’s the height of arrogance from established scholars meaning the sources are impeccably there but it’s a degree’s worth of reading to find the specific source for one point.
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