Anna Saunders
@annasaunders.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. International law, history of property, political economy of science and technology. Writing on patents + climate struggle.
https://law.anu.edu.au/about/our-people/anna-saunders
https://law.anu.edu.au/about/our-people/anna-saunders
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"Spain did not recognize the Maduro regime. But neither will it recognize an intervention that violates international law"
January 3, 2026 at 9:29 PM
"Spain did not recognize the Maduro regime. But neither will it recognize an intervention that violates international law"
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The legal assessment of the US intervention is not, in fact, complex
Let me sum up the reaction of the German government:
International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.
International law applies when our enemies violate it, it’s that simple.
January 3, 2026 at 8:59 PM
The legal assessment of the US intervention is not, in fact, complex
dreaming of an Australian government with an independent foreign policy, instead of this flaccid response to the wanton flouting of international law’s most basic prohibitions
January 4, 2026 at 12:59 AM
dreaming of an Australian government with an independent foreign policy, instead of this flaccid response to the wanton flouting of international law’s most basic prohibitions
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climate implications of what's happening now (US controlling venezuela's oil reserves) are unimaginably bad
January 3, 2026 at 7:55 PM
climate implications of what's happening now (US controlling venezuela's oil reserves) are unimaginably bad
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"As the Government of Chile, we express our concern and condemnation of the military actions by the United States taking place in Venezuela ..."
"Chile reaffirms its commitment to basic principles of International Law, such as ..."
"Chile reaffirms its commitment to basic principles of International Law, such as ..."
January 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM
"As the Government of Chile, we express our concern and condemnation of the military actions by the United States taking place in Venezuela ..."
"Chile reaffirms its commitment to basic principles of International Law, such as ..."
"Chile reaffirms its commitment to basic principles of International Law, such as ..."
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"Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally ... by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the [UN] Charter"
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
January 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM
"Mexico strongly condemns and rejects the military actions carried out unilaterally ... by armed forces of the United States of America against targets in the territory of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in clear violation of Article 2 of the [UN] Charter"
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
www.gob.mx/sre/prensa/m...
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you could say unbelievable, our European leaders will not condemn Trump's flagrant breach of international laws, but we've all watched them cower on US/Israel impunity in Gaza.
January 3, 2026 at 11:15 AM
you could say unbelievable, our European leaders will not condemn Trump's flagrant breach of international laws, but we've all watched them cower on US/Israel impunity in Gaza.
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Sen Mike Lee with the first account I’ve seen of the Admin’s legal theory for the strikes. On the domestic law side — something like: Art II law enforcement power to capture Maduro (by invading his own country) combined with Art II power to protect those personnel executing the warrant.
January 3, 2026 at 10:50 AM
Sen Mike Lee with the first account I’ve seen of the Admin’s legal theory for the strikes. On the domestic law side — something like: Art II law enforcement power to capture Maduro (by invading his own country) combined with Art II power to protect those personnel executing the warrant.
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🌟 Call for papers 🌟
'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'
Join us in Florence in June!
@eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'
Join us in Florence in June!
@eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🌟 Call for papers 🌟
'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'
Join us in Florence in June!
@eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
'How is the earth written, by whom and to what ends? And how is it written through law? What distinguishes the planetary, the global & the international—and how might these distinctions matter legally?'
Join us in Florence in June!
@eui-eu.bsky.social @uoelawschool.bsky.social
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The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
December 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
The deadline for paper proposals has been extended to
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
🗓️ 16 January 2026!
We would be grateful if you could forward this call to your respective networks, particularly those in the humanities.
Please find details for the call for paper here: ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
now extended to 16 Jan - please share!
Reminder that @ishtip.bsky.social is now calling for papers for the 17th annual workshop: this year hosted by the University of São Paulo on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy', 25-26 June 2026.
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
December 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
now extended to 16 Jan - please share!
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Save-the-date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa New Zealand!!
A holiday treat from us to you - save the date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa!
December 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Save-the-date for AusSTS 2026 in Aotearoa New Zealand!!
Reminder that @ishtip.bsky.social is now calling for papers for the 17th annual workshop: this year hosted by the University of São Paulo on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy', 25-26 June 2026.
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
December 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Reminder that @ishtip.bsky.social is now calling for papers for the 17th annual workshop: this year hosted by the University of São Paulo on the theme of 'Intellectual Property and Democracy', 25-26 June 2026.
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
Abstracts due 22 Dec 2025. Join us!
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British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Anna Aslanyan | On the Picket Line
On Monday morning, more than a hundred people formed a picket line outside one of the entrances to the British Library...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
British Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Applications open for Ischia Summer School!
Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS
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Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS
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About the school - Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences
Ischia 2013 Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences: About the summer school.
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December 4, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Applications open for Ischia Summer School!
Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS
ischiasummerschool.org
Confirmed faculty: Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s), Dániel Margócsy (Cambridge), He Bian (Princeton), Patrick Anthony (Uppsala), Alison Bashford (UNSW), Hannah Landecker (UCLA), Edna Suárez-Díaz (UNAM), Sabina Leonelli (TUM) #STS #HPS
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had an incredible time presenting my paper yesterday on ‘International Lawmaking With or Against Authoritarian Science’ in this year’s stacked program for Australian Progressive Legal Studies (APLS). bring on Day 2!
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
had an incredible time presenting my paper yesterday on ‘International Lawmaking With or Against Authoritarian Science’ in this year’s stacked program for Australian Progressive Legal Studies (APLS). bring on Day 2!
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If you're a friend or fan of writer Robert Skinner, you may have heard about his terrible accident a couple months ago.
This Sat night at Coburg RSL is a benefit to help him back on his feet, out of debt, and to get his razzle-dazzle back.
Music, fun and party guaranteed. Details below.
Come along!
This Sat night at Coburg RSL is a benefit to help him back on his feet, out of debt, and to get his razzle-dazzle back.
Music, fun and party guaranteed. Details below.
Come along!
The Razzle Dazzle Restoration Project
Readings, Music and More for Robert Skinner
Help Robert get his razzle-dazzle back after his bike accident!
With readings from Andy...
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December 2, 2025 at 1:17 AM
If you're a friend or fan of writer Robert Skinner, you may have heard about his terrible accident a couple months ago.
This Sat night at Coburg RSL is a benefit to help him back on his feet, out of debt, and to get his razzle-dazzle back.
Music, fun and party guaranteed. Details below.
Come along!
This Sat night at Coburg RSL is a benefit to help him back on his feet, out of debt, and to get his razzle-dazzle back.
Music, fun and party guaranteed. Details below.
Come along!
re-circulating this with a reminder that SSRN is an Elsevier platform. New Years' resolution to migrate to SocArXiv, anyone?
CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
December 5, 2025 at 5:01 AM
re-circulating this with a reminder that SSRN is an Elsevier platform. New Years' resolution to migrate to SocArXiv, anyone?
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📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
December 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
📣 Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual ISHTIP Workshop is out now 📣
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
Theme: Intellectual Property and Democracy
When: 25-26 June 2026
Where: Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil
Abstract & CV deadline: 22 December 2025
More details:
ishtip.org/forthcoming-...
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HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
HEY FRIENDS!! Did you know that Australia - #2 in the world for data centre investment - is now formally missing its climate targets thanks in large part to the resulting surge in power demand?
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
It's massive news - @crikey.com.au let me NERD OUT to explain why:
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/04/d...
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A reminder that ANU Law School is taking expressions of interest for our Visiting Fellows Program in 2026 - details and application form in link below. We are a friendly bunch and the campus is a beautiful place to think and write.
Please share!
law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...
Please share!
law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A reminder that ANU Law School is taking expressions of interest for our Visiting Fellows Program in 2026 - details and application form in link below. We are a friendly bunch and the campus is a beautiful place to think and write.
Please share!
law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...
Please share!
law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...
A reminder that ANU Law School is taking expressions of interest for our Visiting Fellows Program in 2026 - details and application form in link below. We are a friendly bunch and the campus is a beautiful place to think and write.
Please share!
law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...
Please share!
law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...
law.anu.edu.au
December 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
A reminder that ANU Law School is taking expressions of interest for our Visiting Fellows Program in 2026 - details and application form in link below. We are a friendly bunch and the campus is a beautiful place to think and write.
Please share!
law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...
Please share!
law.anu.edu.au/research/vis...
if this happens, it will be the biggest international law news in decades and will be immediately followed by several of the hardest fought sets of litigation you have ever seen. time to stop ignoring tax
Rule 1 of the global tax system is you tax multinational corporations where they SAY their profits are, not where they MAKE profit. Most countries backed flipping this 100-year-old rule in recent UN tax talks, to finally end the era of global tax abuse
#UNtaxConvention
taxjustice.net/press/un-inc...
#UNtaxConvention
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UN inches towards flipping “Rule 1” of global tax system and ending tax abuse era - Tax Justice Network
The 100-year-old cornerstone of the global tax system was put to debate last month in Nairobi as countries continued historic negotiations on a world-first UN tax convention.1 Having already committed...
taxjustice.net
December 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
if this happens, it will be the biggest international law news in decades and will be immediately followed by several of the hardest fought sets of litigation you have ever seen. time to stop ignoring tax
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Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia.
[Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
[Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
Low success rate in early career grants ‘deeply disappointing’ - Research Professional News
“Decay continues” as Australian Research Council’s Decra scheme announces 13.1 per cent success rate
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia.
[Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
[Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
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CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
"They’ve already struck an in-principle deal with T&F that all Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand university research published by T&F can be freely accessed by members of the public from 1 Jan 2026. This is kind of huge." Um, yeah it is! #highered #academicsky researchwhisperer.org/2025/11/25/l...
Librarians versus the world
Photo of London’s National Art Library by Sebastien LE DEROUT on Unsplash Here at the Research Whisperer, we love librarians. They are smart, dedicated people who want to help you with your researc…
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November 28, 2025 at 7:03 AM
CAUL negotiations with Elsevier need academic support.
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”
Until this dispute is resolved:
“Do not submit to Elsevier journals.
Do not review for Elsevier.
Pause your work on Elsevier editorial committees…
Withdraw your (free) labour. It is the simplest and most powerful statement that you can make.”