Anna Saunders
@annasaunders.bsky.social
Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. International law, theory and history of property, politics 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
do not sleep on this absolute belter of an article
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
November 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
do not sleep on this absolute belter of an article
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Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
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Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
November 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Very good @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social summary of the really, really significant data centre growth in New South Wales, Australia - something we can see directly contributing to sustaining the burning of coal in the state
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
www.instagram.com/reel/DQbKiv9...
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So excited to return to my alma mater as a Pritzker Fellow with University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Among a long list of activities, I will host a seminar series on "The Development of Science & Technology Within Shifting U.S.-China Relations." Details: politics.uchicago.edu/fellows/curr...
October 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
So excited to return to my alma mater as a Pritzker Fellow with University of Chicago Institute of Politics. Among a long list of activities, I will host a seminar series on "The Development of Science & Technology Within Shifting U.S.-China Relations." Details: politics.uchicago.edu/fellows/curr...
more power to @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social drawing attention to the energy, water and land impacts of NSW data centres. these centres, and the wasteful technologies they feed, are not just pedagogically offensive but immensely destructive for climate and community
www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...
www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...
We need to talk about data centres
TikTok video by Abigail Boyd, Greens MP
www.tiktok.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
more power to @abigailboydmlc.bsky.social drawing attention to the energy, water and land impacts of NSW data centres. these centres, and the wasteful technologies they feed, are not just pedagogically offensive but immensely destructive for climate and community
www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...
www.tiktok.com/@abigailboyd...
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anyone who boosts AI has to explain to me why this is worth it
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
anyone who boosts AI has to explain to me why this is worth it
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Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!
📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026,
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated in November.
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026,
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated in November.
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!
Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!
📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026,
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated in November.
International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) 17th Annual Workshop
Intellectual Property and Democracy
25 & 26 June 2026,
hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Call for papers will be circulated in November.
October 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Terrific theme and host faculty for this year’s @ishtip.bsky.social - save the date and looking forward!
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Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
October 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Call for papers for a workshop on Economic Aspects of the Constitution: www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_...
Not to be missed! This afternoon for those on UK/European time.
Date: Wednesday 22 October 2025 | Time: 3.00pm (London – BST)
After Patent Republic
Speaker: Hyo Yoon Kang
After Patent Republic
Speaker: Hyo Yoon Kang
After Patent Republic – Hyo Yoon Kang (University of Warwick) – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Not to be missed! This afternoon for those on UK/European time.
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nächste Woche, 23./24.10., Book Launch und Workshop zu Stadt-Land-Boden in Würzburg www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/02...
October 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
nächste Woche, 23./24.10., Book Launch und Workshop zu Stadt-Land-Boden in Würzburg www.jura.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/02...
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I am giving a talk in a week on “After Patent Republic” as part of the International Society for the History and Theory of IP @ishtip.bsky.social seminar series.
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
After Patent Republic – Hyo Yoon Kang (University of Warwick) – ISHTIP
ishtip.org
October 15, 2025 at 7:14 AM
I am giving a talk in a week on “After Patent Republic” as part of the International Society for the History and Theory of IP @ishtip.bsky.social seminar series.
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
All welcome and you can register here (it’s online)
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Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.
It is not "attribution and sourcing" to generate post-hoc citations that have not been read and did not inform the student's writing. Those should be regarded as fraudulent: artifacts testifying to human actions and thought that did not occur.
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
www.theverge.com/news/760508/...
October 11, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Does your university have a contract with Grammarly? Write to the decision-maker asking if they think the university should be paying for a tool that is fast integrating features that can only be used for academic misconduct and cognitive offloading and request they drop the contract.
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What does de-dollarisation mean in practice? How does it relate to global law and governance?
My article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law' is now out in JIEL. I present dollar dominance and de-dollarisation as competing legal institutions.
academic.oup.com/jiel/advance...
My article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law' is now out in JIEL. I present dollar dominance and de-dollarisation as competing legal institutions.
academic.oup.com/jiel/advance...
Dollar dominance, de-dollarization, and international law
Abstract. Recent proposals to seize Russian Central Bank assets expose how little international lawyers have engaged with the intensifying competition over
academic.oup.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
What does de-dollarisation mean in practice? How does it relate to global law and governance?
My article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law' is now out in JIEL. I present dollar dominance and de-dollarisation as competing legal institutions.
academic.oup.com/jiel/advance...
My article 'Dollar Dominance, De-Dollarization, and International Law' is now out in JIEL. I present dollar dominance and de-dollarisation as competing legal institutions.
academic.oup.com/jiel/advance...
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In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open.
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!
files.taylorandfrancis.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
In case you missed this in the summer haze, our Early-Career Paper Prize 2026 is now open.
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!
Deadline: 15th December 2025.
Publication plus £1,000 for the Prize winner!
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There's a lot going on in the world, so you may have missed the announcement that next week (6-8 October) the ICJ will hold oral hearings in the advisory proceedings on the right to strike. 20 states and 5 international organisations are due to participate.
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
www.icj-cij.org
October 1, 2025 at 2:42 AM
There's a lot going on in the world, so you may have missed the announcement that next week (6-8 October) the ICJ will hold oral hearings in the advisory proceedings on the right to strike. 20 states and 5 international organisations are due to participate.
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
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I'm giving a talk on "After Patent Republic?"
on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online,
in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities.
It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series.
Everyone welcome.
Abstract and registration:
on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online,
in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities.
It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series.
Everyone welcome.
Abstract and registration:
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: After Patent Republic - Hyo Yoon Kang. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
What comes after ‘Patent Republic’? In his 2006 article, Mario Biagioli showed how the modern U.S. patent law system, with its development of examination, filing, and institutional bureaucracy, was cl...
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September 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I'm giving a talk on "After Patent Republic?"
on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online,
in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities.
It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series.
Everyone welcome.
Abstract and registration:
on 22 October, 3pm GMT, online,
in which I'll think about the role of patent law in non-democratic and authoritarian polities.
It's part of @ishtip.bsky.social's 2025-6 Seminar Series.
Everyone welcome.
Abstract and registration:
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🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🚨 Conference Announcement 🚨
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
The Land Question
October 30-31, 2025
Grimm Zentrum, HU Berlin
Full Program + Abstracts now online. 2 days, 30 scholars, 8 panels. No registration required. Keynotes by Omar Dahbour and Isabel Feichtner. Come!
criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/the-la...
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Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism.
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
September 17, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Gillian Rose's on law, history, and Marxism.
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
This should be an essential workshop with deep intellectual and theoretical engagement that is becoming rarer by the day in UK legal academia. Organised by the wonderful Rosie Woodhouse. Registration and more info here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
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I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...
Defining Away Palestine
voelkerrechtsblog.org
September 12, 2025 at 8:39 AM
I wrote a short piece on definitions that conflate anti/semitism with (anti)-Zionism and the dangers that their adoption poses specifically for international lawyers, including for our Palestinian colleagues and students: voelkerrechtsblog.org/defining-awa...
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🚨 ONLINE EVENT
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
September 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
🚨 ONLINE EVENT
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
Join us for a free panel on the war economy, the climate impacts of war & the geopolitics of the climate transition.
Speakers: @stephensemler.bsky.social, @triofrancos.bsky.social & @iliasalami.bsky.social, chaired by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
📅 16 Oct 6PM BST
🔗 shorturl.at/NwJCL
Tonight’s Wheelwright Lecture. Raewyn Connell with a masterclass in dissecting three structural tensions producing university crises, and how to begin addressing each of them. The talk ended with Tagore’s university - as a meeting place of worlds, built collectively, under the trees.
September 10, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Tonight’s Wheelwright Lecture. Raewyn Connell with a masterclass in dissecting three structural tensions producing university crises, and how to begin addressing each of them. The talk ended with Tagore’s university - as a meeting place of worlds, built collectively, under the trees.
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RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
September 8, 2025 at 8:53 AM
RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.
A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution
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It’s lovely to be in Canberra this month as a visiting fellow at the ANU Law School. On Thursday 18th September, I’ll be presenting some of the work from my new book which explores emotions and conflicts over LGBT rights. Come along if you’re around! Details here: law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve... 🌈🎓
September 3, 2025 at 9:00 AM
It’s lovely to be in Canberra this month as a visiting fellow at the ANU Law School. On Thursday 18th September, I’ll be presenting some of the work from my new book which explores emotions and conflicts over LGBT rights. Come along if you’re around! Details here: law.anu.edu.au/news-and-eve... 🌈🎓