Reposted by A/Prof Narrelle MorrisA/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My 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.hkCommand on Trial: Japanese Officers, War Crimes, and Command Responsibility 011
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026My 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.hkCommand on Trial: Japanese Officers, War Crimes, and Command Responsibility 011
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Wouldn’t “exposing” or “demolishing” that facade be more accurate? Does the author not know the meaning of facade? What terrible writing. 000
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026And I quite enjoy that and the tales from the archives. So keep it up! 110
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is so going in my teaching materials for statutory interpretation next year! 130
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Got 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. 000
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I feel like there’s a tiny article to be written on these repeated thought bubbles of bills to ban this or that. This is about the third bill, assuming one is put forward, in less than 2 years, each with zero chance of passing or being upheld constitutional even if it is passed. 000
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This is f**king horrifying on so many levels www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comMacquarie University swaps in-person psychology classes with AI chatbot for two subjectsUniversity’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’ 052
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026And so not reassuring to be told by an MP that MPs are broadly using Gen AI themselves. 020
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Happy Wattle Day, brought to you by UTas Faculty of Law last week! 020
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 26/08/2026And eight men at a time it seems. Photos say a lot sometimes. 020
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 23/08/2026For the book inclined, new library at MONA is worth the battle (to merely find your way there) at MONA. 000
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 23/08/2026In beautiful Hobart for war crimes. Clarification: reading proofs of. Lots of work ahead but vol 2 should be published in January. 111
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026We 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! 🍾 030
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Have you had a play with Transkribus? 010
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Yes, I concur. Handwriting. Always fun. 110
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Now we just need to persuade our own law schools that this is the way. 000
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Watching the GenAI and legal practice space is like the gift that keeps on giving. 010
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Disturbingly similar www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auThylacine head find at UK auction a 'holy grail' for collectorAfter seeing off a rival at auction, a British collector says he is now in possession of a "holy grail" — a mounted thylacine head. But the item almost went unnoticed, listed as a 'fox head'. 020
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Compare this with the conservative backlash after Beech-Jones J’s speech earlier this year. 010
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Who doesn’t want to be (re)coined for their work? 020
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 13/08/2026A corollary would be that you can’t get into a leadership position until you’ve spent 5 years there actually *learning* that place and the staff. There’s plenty that isn’t broken and doesn’t need to be upended. 010
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Only if you’re going to do a thread posting every stray international law thought that crosses your mind as you watch, somewhat like that glorious thread of a newbie reading Pride and Prejudice. 120
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This is oddly fascinating reading. 031
Reposted by A/Prof Narrelle MorrisProf Melanie O'Brien @drmelob.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Due 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.auProspective staff : Jobs at UWA : The University Of Western Australia 11012
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I tried Lexis once I saw that it sponsored the org but nothing. It's just so unusual not have have a library catalogue admit that somethings exists, even if you then don't have access to it. Doc del here we go ... 000
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Legal 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. 100
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Oh the irony of Lexis reminding us not to upload their content into "any other AI tools". 010
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Legal 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. 000
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Proofs will appear next month and publication is likely in early Jan (given the proposed date is 30 December 2026). 010
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Well, 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. 230
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Better make sure I write archive-based research on the next travel application! 010
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026and “they” don’t usually commit (allegedly) crimes resulting in death on a night out in Freo. Only the uneducated and poor do, this implies. Shame on the ABC, frankly. 000
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 13/07/2026There’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 .. 100
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026I 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.auAustralia's woeful Asian languages literacy is failing usAs Asian language enrolments wither Australia is failing to make lasting ties within our region. 011
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Honestly, 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 100
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Just 🤷♀️ at the headline but 🤦🏻♀️ at the time it *apparently* took to notice they were gone. 111
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026The perverse incentives and odd advice handed out to Australian legal academics are similar, ie being told to publish niche research on Aust law of interest mostly to Aust readers in international (US mostly) law journals. 020
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 29/06/2026I’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.comAustralians are hungry for new history books – but historians are pressured not to publish locallyA new study shows that workplace priorities for Australian historians make it harder for their work to reach Australian readers – despite strong public interest. 101
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 14/06/2026It’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. 020
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 06/06/2026The degree of lack of insight in this is staggering … opening with how US consumers are running out of money and segueing to how to protect yourself by investing your money in gold. 010
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 02/06/2026This is not why I got into pottery but it’s sure helped make it stick! 030
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 19/05/2026I spent my day in Rabaul as a desk traveller! Vol 2 of the Australian War Crimes Trials Law Reports Series is nearing manuscript submission at the end of the week. It covers the first 125 trials and is going to be BIG. It’s nudging 550,000 words. 120
A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Gah, NAA RecordSearch is down just when I need it for checking something. 000