Douglas Guilfoyle
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Douglas Guilfoyle
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Professor of International Law and Security, UNSW Canberra. ARC Future Fellow. International law & maritime security. Posting in a personal capacity. He/him.

Political science 41%
Environmental science 28%

New jacket nearly complete. (Another Ilford jacket from Friday Pattern Company.) #sewing

Oh good, unseasonable hail. That’s never gone wrong in Canberra.
Thunder rolling in over Canberra at about 0.4 of a standard Lovecraft/Hammer Horror unit. Which seems understated given world events.

Thunder rolling in over Canberra at about 0.4 of a standard Lovecraft/Hammer Horror unit. Which seems understated given world events.
'Unorthodox'
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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If this doesn't come with a UNGA Uniting for Peace resolution and global condemnation then the prohibition on the use of force is finished and the UN will go the way of the League of Nations.

Ask the international lawyers in your life how they are because right now I wish I weren't 10 years sober
Rules-based international order has had a rough couple of decades, but this pretty much ends it entirely. Both the strikes and the capture of Maduro are also blatant violations of US domestic law too, of course.
I think this feels particularly shocking because no matter how much you stretch the law this has absolutely no basis of legality whatsoever. No terrorists, no "threat" requiring anticipatory self defence. Nothing.
Article I, Section 8

"The Congress shall have power... To declare war"

and

United Nations Charter, Article 2(4)

"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State"

First academic selfie of 2026. Lunch in Bega with my sister, wearing the waistcoat and trousers I made for myself. Unrelatedly, got my first “are you a pensioner or do you have a concession” in a barbershop today. (The cheek!)

I once had someone describe my argument in a paper as “facile” but they appeared to mean it as a complement (as in, executed with great facility, I suppose). Again, an American.
I once read something that described some of my writing as ‘enterprising’. So I clenched my cheeks in anticipation of the takedown that was surely coming my way. Nope. He was an American. He weirdly meant it as a compliment.
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?

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I once read something that described some of my writing as ‘enterprising’. So I clenched my cheeks in anticipation of the takedown that was surely coming my way. Nope. He was an American. He weirdly meant it as a compliment.
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?

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It's a crime we never got Muppet Hunt for Red October where the only humans are Connery and Tim Curry.

My sister, modelling the Friday Pattern Co Ilford jacket I made her for her birthday. Plus shots of the details on collar, pockets and cuffs. #sewing

We took #CalledTotheBar on the road to the ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality & International Law workshop! @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social chats with a wide range of scholars about feminist approaches to international law in an age of authoritarian capitalism.🎙️
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62. Feminist Approaches to International Law in a Time of Authoritarian Capitalism - ANZSIL GSIL Roadshow
In this special roadshow episode, Associate Professor Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin University) takes Call to the Bar on the road to Melbourne for the Australian and New Zealand Society of Internation
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Wondering what it might be like to work as a mid-career or senior researcher in Australia? UNSW's Green Fellowships are 1 or 2 year positions, open to those at least 8 years post-PhD, with the possibility of converting to permanent UNSW employment.
www.unsw.edu.au/research/gre...
Green Fellowships | UNSW
The Green Fellowships Program is a prestigious initiative that welcomes academics from outside Australia whose research aligns with UNSW’s strengths and strategic priorities.
www.unsw.edu.au

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They missed one: Check out Called to the Bar - International Law over Drinks on #SoundCloud
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

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Happy to share my review (that was well late, sorry) of @glexareen.bsky.social's book "Statehood as Political Community"

He may be a moral philosophy bro but his outcomes and ethics are sound in spite of that. The book is excellent and well worth your time

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Statehood as Political Community: International Law and the Emergence of New States by Alex Green [Cambridge University Press, 2024, ISBN: 978-10091-7-6309, 254pp, £95 (h/bk)] | International & Co...
Statehood as Political Community: International Law and the Emergence of New States by Alex Green [Cambridge University Press, 2024, ISBN: 978-10091-7-6309, 254pp, £95 (h/bk)]
www.cambridge.org

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if you fancy listening to some (rather tipsy) doom and gloom chats about international law, look no further! Our end of year drinks with @djag2.bsky.social @imogenmarjorie.bsky.social @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social @drnajimagi.bsky.social are now out soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...
61. End of year drinks: gangsterism as international law
In the penultimate episode of Season 2, host Douglas Guilfoyle brings together the full Called to the Bar team — Tamsin Paige, Ntina Tzouvala, Juliette McIntyre, and Imogen Saunders — for their end-of
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End-of-year drinks with the whole Called to the Bar crew 🍸 We grade 2025 in international law (spoiler: some marks dip below an F), talk “gangsterism as international law”, advisory opinions, Gaza, Ukraine, climate, and whether the UN era is ending.

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61. End of year drinks
In the penultimate episode of Season 2, host Douglas Guilfoyle brings together the full Called to the Bar team — Tamsin Paige, Ntina Tzouvala, Juliette McIntyre, and Imogen Saunders — for their end-of
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The ANZSIL/Australian yearbook of international law student paper prize is open!

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Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law - AYBIL/ANZSIL Student Paper Prize
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🚨🚨 Call for papers!!! 🚨🚨
Together with @jenhendry.bsky.social, I am excited to ask for contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Law, dedicated to the legacy of the late and wonderful William Twining. Full details to follow:

Countdown until someone calls this piracy and @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social and I both lose our minds ...

Nine ... eight ... seven ...

Graduation day at UNSW Canberra

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“All of the strikes constitute unlawful killing."

Here’s everything you need to know about the attacks taking place in the Caribbean: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Another outing for Maritime Domain Awareness: The Board Game at a @bluesecprogram.bsky.social ECR workshop!

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Everyone imitates Tolkien all the time except when it comes to the one way it would really matter: making the protagonist of your novel for children a short, fat, 50-year-old man who doesn't want to do anything.
This is so disgusting.