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Stephen Young

@steveisinotago.bsky.social
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Writing about law, resisting law "lawfully", legal exit, and other legal imaginaries.

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Stephen Young @steveisinotago.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m very pleased to share the news that my new book, Outlawed: Responding to the Global Rise of Sovereign Citizens and Legal Conspiracies, co-authored with Harry Hobbs, is now out. The University of Otago has written a nice little piece about the book here: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo....
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New book on the global rise of sovereign citizens
What if someone told you your mortgage is illegal, your taxes are voluntary, that you don’t have to hold a license to drive and with the right words you could free yourself from the system forever?
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Stephen Young @steveisinotago.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is "Sovereign Citizen" an oxymoron? Not really, but it shows how pseudolaw works. A new op-ed: www.abc.net.au/religion/sov.... (See the book: www.penguin.co.nz/books/outlaw...).
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It takes 1,000 words to answer 100 words of pseudolaw — therein lies its power - ABC Religion & Ethics
Pseudolegal claims should not be treated as plausible, but their significance cannot be measured by their (lack of) legal success. Pseudolaw is not just a series of bad legal arguments. It is a respon...
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Stephen Young @steveisinotago.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm rarely on here. But I have a new book with Harry Hobbs. We like it and think you will, too. Check it out: www.penguin.com.au/books/outlaw....
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Outlawed by Harry Hobbs
What if someone told you your debts were fake, your mortgage illegal, your taxes voluntary, and that with the right words you could free yourself from the system forever?
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Indrani B. 🌷🐸🐧🐻‍❄️🐈🌿🇺🇦🕯 @theotherindrani.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Yay! The gang's gettin' back together! @drjoemcintyre.bsky.social @steveisinotago.bsky.social & Harry Hobbs officially launch their book & explore the mysterious world of 'Pseudolaw and Sovereign Citizens'!
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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Australian Progressive Legal Studies is back with a call for papers on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarianism. If you want to help us understand WTF is going on, send us your abstract by the 11th of July. We are-ahem-low budget, so we can only help with domestic travel.
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Stephen Young @steveisinotago.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is underrated
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Stephen Young @steveisinotago.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
The medium is the message: youtube.com/shorts/Z64qj...
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Jon explains how the right confuses the profit/hate-driven social media algorithm with "free" speech
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Stephen Young @steveisinotago.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I wrote a little thing for CLT. Read it here.
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Dr Erin O'Donnell (she/her) 🇵🇸 @ezzyod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Join us in Ōtautahi/Christchurch for the 2025 LSAANZ conference! The theme: "how we can reimagine our socio-legal relationships in ways that foster resilience and better reflect our reciprocal relationships with each other and the world we live in." www.canterbury.ac.nz/study/academ...
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2025 LSAANZ Conference | University of Canterbury
This conference will explore how understandings of rights and responsibilities are evolving in response to legal and social change; and how we can reimagine our socio-legal relationships in ways that ...
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Stephen Young @steveisinotago.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Consider writing a key concept! One of my most cited pieces is a key concept for CLT (while proud of this, my other work is just not cited often 😅 regardless, it is good to do).
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Illan wall @illanwall.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
On CLT we want to expand our key concepts page. If you have the time, we would love to see more concepts like this on securitisation, that has just gone up. They get a MASSIVE audience (often in the tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands): criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/31/k...
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Key Concept: Securitization (Copenhagen School)
The concept of “securitization” was developed by the Copenhagen School to analyze the process whereby powerful actors such as governments identify a
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Stephen Young @steveisinotago.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Hi all, Harry Hobbs, Yasmin Olsen and I are hosting a workshop on the intersection of Indigenous Sovereignty and Sovereign Citizens in November 2025. Please share our CFP and consider submitting an abstract! Thanks.
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