Fleur Johns
@fleurjohns.bsky.social
Dean & Head of School, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. International law, legal theory, law & technology etc. Latest books: https://tinyurl.com/HelpBookOUP & https://tinyurl.com/2cv626hf
(Views expressed here are mine not those of my employer.)
(Views expressed here are mine not those of my employer.)
Hello all. My OA article “Palliative Presentism & Its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces” has been published in the European Journal of International Law. It is about time, technology, humanitarian emergencies & international law.
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Palliative Presentism and Its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces
Abstract. International organizations (IOs) are having growing recourse to digital technologies in emergency response. Digital interfaces, such as online e
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July 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Hello all. My OA article “Palliative Presentism & Its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces” has been published in the European Journal of International Law. It is about time, technology, humanitarian emergencies & international law.
academic.oup.com/ejil/advance...
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How does the design of digital govt infrastructure impact decision-making & accountability? @jenraso.bsky.social & I argue that data-sharing arrangements underlying digital govt programs are dispersing responsibilities within decision-making, generating what we call 'bureaucratic disempowerment' 1/4
Data Entry and Decision Chains: Distributed Responsibility and Bureaucratic Disempowerment in the UK’s Universal Credit Programme
Abstract. Digitalising public programmes creates new accountability challenges, many of which are under-theorised. Using Universal Credit to illustrate its
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March 26, 2025 at 10:01 AM
How does the design of digital govt infrastructure impact decision-making & accountability? @jenraso.bsky.social & I argue that data-sharing arrangements underlying digital govt programs are dispersing responsibilities within decision-making, generating what we call 'bureaucratic disempowerment' 1/4
To the extent that Trump’s foreign policy has a coherent logic, that logic — the accompanying conception of state territory & national interest etc — is best understood through the historical & legal lens of consular internationalism rather than diplomatic relations www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
June 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
To the extent that Trump’s foreign policy has a coherent logic, that logic — the accompanying conception of state territory & national interest etc — is best understood through the historical & legal lens of consular internationalism rather than diplomatic relations www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
Great hybrid-conversation at the Law & Society conference about our book (co-ed by Gavin Sullivan, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social & me) Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule, f’coming open access with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. 🙏to Gavin & to @mattcanfield.bsky.social for comments.
May 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Great hybrid-conversation at the Law & Society conference about our book (co-ed by Gavin Sullivan, @dimitrivdm.bsky.social & me) Global Governance by Data: Infrastructures of Algorithmic Rule, f’coming open access with @cambridgeup.bsky.social. 🙏to Gavin & to @mattcanfield.bsky.social for comments.
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🔥🔥🔥 Excited to share this collection in @ejiltalk.bsky.social: International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading.
👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays.
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👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays.
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https://academic.oup.com/ejil/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ejil/chae069/7994342
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February 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🔥🔥🔥 Excited to share this collection in @ejiltalk.bsky.social: International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading.
👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays.
t.co/bd0DOcbXKp
👇 This piece draws the contours of a critical approach to IL and technology by introducing five wonderful review essays.
t.co/bd0DOcbXKp
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Thanks to the editors of @verfassungsblog.de for publishing this new short essay, somewhat bleak, but it did give me the privilege of linking to work by my better half.
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May 16, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thanks to the editors of @verfassungsblog.de for publishing this new short essay, somewhat bleak, but it did give me the privilege of linking to work by my better half.
verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave...
verfassungsblog.de/in-the-grave...
For anyone thinking about doing a PhD in Law, expressions of interest for Pitch-a-PhD at The University of Sydney Law School are now open for international applicants. Please share widely. Submission link: lnkd.in/gcibSc9g Scholarships info here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
May 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
For anyone thinking about doing a PhD in Law, expressions of interest for Pitch-a-PhD at The University of Sydney Law School are now open for international applicants. Please share widely. Submission link: lnkd.in/gcibSc9g Scholarships info here: www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Ernst Fraenkel’s work is worth revisiting but the “dual state” as a diagnosis of contemporary authoritarianism (A) is misguided insofar as it maintains the separability of a “zone of legality” from a “legal abyss”, absolving the former of responsibility for A’s rise
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...
The Frightening Precedents for Trump’s ‘Legal Abyss’
The ‘dual-state theory’ explains how authoritarians bend the law to their will.
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May 3, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Ernst Fraenkel’s work is worth revisiting but the “dual state” as a diagnosis of contemporary authoritarianism (A) is misguided insofar as it maintains the separability of a “zone of legality” from a “legal abyss”, absolving the former of responsibility for A’s rise
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/03/w...
In this OA article in the Leiden Journal of Int’l Law, I argue that the distinctive logic of consular internationalism can aid analysis of entanglements of imperial & commercial power & grappling with unofficial actors’ role in shaping international law www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
On consular internationalism | Leiden Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core
On consular internationalism
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April 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM
In this OA article in the Leiden Journal of Int’l Law, I argue that the distinctive logic of consular internationalism can aid analysis of entanglements of imperial & commercial power & grappling with unofficial actors’ role in shaping international law www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
March 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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📢 Out now! #DigitalEchoes: Season 2 – 'Listening to New Normativities' New episodes 📼 every second Monday on Völkerrechtsblog & Spotify!
Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke.
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Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke.
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Introducing the Second Seasons of Digital Echoes
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March 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
📢 Out now! #DigitalEchoes: Season 2 – 'Listening to New Normativities' New episodes 📼 every second Monday on Völkerrechtsblog & Spotify!
Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
Read the introduction by @dogot.bsky.social, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, @minorjurisprudent.bsky.social & Anna Sophia Tiedeke.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/introducing-...
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Our edited collection on 'Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System' will be out in January 2025.
A big thanks to co-editors Shirley Scott and Jeff McGee and to the contributors for making this project possible.
link.springer.com/book/9789819...
A big thanks to co-editors Shirley Scott and Jeff McGee and to the contributors for making this project possible.
link.springer.com/book/9789819...
Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System
This book explores all aspects of geopolitical considerations between key states of the Antarctica Treaty System (ATS) and lessons that can be gained.
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November 12, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Our edited collection on 'Geopolitical Change and the Antarctic Treaty System' will be out in January 2025.
A big thanks to co-editors Shirley Scott and Jeff McGee and to the contributors for making this project possible.
link.springer.com/book/9789819...
A big thanks to co-editors Shirley Scott and Jeff McGee and to the contributors for making this project possible.
link.springer.com/book/9789819...
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New publication alert ⚠️
We evaluated controls on food marketing in six different jurisdictions, producing recommendations for effective, transparent, and accountable regulation.
Key takeaway: good regulatory design is just as important as regulatory tool choice.
Full version: shorturl.at/ky4fp
We evaluated controls on food marketing in six different jurisdictions, producing recommendations for effective, transparent, and accountable regulation.
Key takeaway: good regulatory design is just as important as regulatory tool choice.
Full version: shorturl.at/ky4fp
Reducing unhealthy food and beverage advertising to children: a framework for strengthening performance, transparency and enforcement
Food and beverage multinationals spend vast sums of money marketing unhealthy foods and drinks to children, using an integrated array of advertising techniques and media platforms. Countries have resp...
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January 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
New publication alert ⚠️
We evaluated controls on food marketing in six different jurisdictions, producing recommendations for effective, transparent, and accountable regulation.
Key takeaway: good regulatory design is just as important as regulatory tool choice.
Full version: shorturl.at/ky4fp
We evaluated controls on food marketing in six different jurisdictions, producing recommendations for effective, transparent, and accountable regulation.
Key takeaway: good regulatory design is just as important as regulatory tool choice.
Full version: shorturl.at/ky4fp
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Interested in competing ideas of "gender" in international criminal law? I'll be chatting next week on this with the brilliant Akila Radhakrishnan, Valerie Oosterveld, Lily Kather, Juliana Santos de Carvalho & Lena Holzer. Tune in on Monday 3 February at 10am, Cambridge time.
January 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Interested in competing ideas of "gender" in international criminal law? I'll be chatting next week on this with the brilliant Akila Radhakrishnan, Valerie Oosterveld, Lily Kather, Juliana Santos de Carvalho & Lena Holzer. Tune in on Monday 3 February at 10am, Cambridge time.
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Check out @louravn.bsky.social's wonderful interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social in Critical Humanities - it's OA and is of interest to anyone interested in critical data studies, humanitarianism and interdisciplinary legal perspectives to datafication @tgammeltoft.bsky.social #DALOSS #MOBILE
Very pleased to see my interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social out in Critical Humanities: mds.marshall.edu/criticalhuma...! 🌞
In it, Fleur Johns explains the central arguments of her recent book “#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order“ (OUP, 2023)…🧵
In it, Fleur Johns explains the central arguments of her recent book “#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order“ (OUP, 2023)…🧵
January 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Check out @louravn.bsky.social's wonderful interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social in Critical Humanities - it's OA and is of interest to anyone interested in critical data studies, humanitarianism and interdisciplinary legal perspectives to datafication @tgammeltoft.bsky.social #DALOSS #MOBILE
I’m so grateful to @louravn.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about some of the arguments in my @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book ‘#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order’ in the Critical Humanities journal 👇
Very pleased to see my interview with @fleurjohns.bsky.social out in Critical Humanities: mds.marshall.edu/criticalhuma...! 🌞
In it, Fleur Johns explains the central arguments of her recent book “#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order“ (OUP, 2023)…🧵
In it, Fleur Johns explains the central arguments of her recent book “#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order“ (OUP, 2023)…🧵
January 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I’m so grateful to @louravn.bsky.social for the opportunity to talk about some of the arguments in my @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book ‘#Help: Digital Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Order’ in the Critical Humanities journal 👇
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The paper seeks to contribute to broader questions about global data/infrastructure governance. The final version of the paper will be published in a volume on governance by data edited by @fleurjohns.bsky.social @dimitrivdm.bsky.social and Gavin Sullivan.
December 16, 2024 at 5:14 PM
The paper seeks to contribute to broader questions about global data/infrastructure governance. The final version of the paper will be published in a volume on governance by data edited by @fleurjohns.bsky.social @dimitrivdm.bsky.social and Gavin Sullivan.
I have a new article forthcoming in the European Journal of International Law (@ejiltalk.bsky.social): 'Palliative Presentism and its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces'. It is available via SSRN pending publication: ssrn.com/abstract=505...
Below is an abstract:
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December 12, 2024 at 9:58 AM
I have a new article forthcoming in the European Journal of International Law (@ejiltalk.bsky.social): 'Palliative Presentism and its Alternatives: International Legal Emergencies via Digital Interfaces'. It is available via SSRN pending publication: ssrn.com/abstract=505...
Below is an abstract:
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Conversations with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & Dr. Mohammad Amir Anwar led to this dialogue on the limits of digital dispossession as a lens onto exploitation & domination in the digital economy in the Backchannels blog of @4sweb.bsky.social of which Nanna gives a great preview. I echo her thanks.
1/ Honored (!) to explore digital dispossession's implications for law, critical/cultural data studies & STS with @fleurjohns.bsky.social in @4sweb.bsky.social's Backchannels: 4sonline.org/news_manager.php?page=38459!Thank you Aaron Gregory and @ludovico-rella.bsky.social for editorial guidance!
Possession as Ruse—A Conversation about Digital DispossessionSearchMobile Menu
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December 9, 2024 at 7:37 PM
Conversations with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social & Dr. Mohammad Amir Anwar led to this dialogue on the limits of digital dispossession as a lens onto exploitation & domination in the digital economy in the Backchannels blog of @4sweb.bsky.social of which Nanna gives a great preview. I echo her thanks.
As reports have come in about devastating flooding in Malaysia & Thailand, it’s time to step up ambition & engagement in regional disaster diplomacy, as I write today in The Interpreter published by @lowyinstitute.bsky.social
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Australia is out to lunch on disaster diplomacy
Despite multiple strategies, frameworks and partnerships, Canberra still lags on regional disaster relief.
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December 9, 2024 at 12:48 AM
As reports have come in about devastating flooding in Malaysia & Thailand, it’s time to step up ambition & engagement in regional disaster diplomacy, as I write today in The Interpreter published by @lowyinstitute.bsky.social
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference!
The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University.
The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’.
Please re-post!
The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University.
The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’.
Please re-post!
November 27, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Save the date for the world's best-sized international law conference!
The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University.
The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’.
Please re-post!
The 32nd ANZSIL Annual Conference will be held Wednesday 2 July – Friday 4 July 2025 at the Australian National University.
The Conference Theme is: ‘International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance’.
Please re-post!
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go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many
(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
November 16, 2024 at 12:58 PM
go.bsky.app/KE77aRL new starter pack for ECRs in international law, EU law, IHRL and legal theory! 🫡 I guess it might be useful for many
(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
(Disclaimer: I added people according to *my* sense of who an early career researcher is - of course, feel free to join if you consider yourself an ECR!)
After COVID foiled October plans, I am especially pleased to have made it to Edinburgh Law School to deliver the 2nd of their 2024 Dean's Lectures at Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College, on Wed 20 November 2024
17:00-18:30, on ‘International Legal Critique Now’
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17:00-18:30, on ‘International Legal Critique Now’
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Rescheduled: Dean's Lecture: (International) Legal Critique Now | Edinburgh Law School
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November 18, 2024 at 10:24 AM
After COVID foiled October plans, I am especially pleased to have made it to Edinburgh Law School to deliver the 2nd of their 2024 Dean's Lectures at Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College, on Wed 20 November 2024
17:00-18:30, on ‘International Legal Critique Now’
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
17:00-18:30, on ‘International Legal Critique Now’
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
I’m looking forward to giving the inaugural annual lecture of
SCRIPT, the Scottish Research Centre for IP & Technology Law, at the University of Edinburgh: ‘On Tech Diplomacy & Dilemmas of human-nonhuman interface’
25 Nov 2024, 17:30 - 20:00
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
SCRIPT, the Scottish Research Centre for IP & Technology Law, at the University of Edinburgh: ‘On Tech Diplomacy & Dilemmas of human-nonhuman interface’
25 Nov 2024, 17:30 - 20:00
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
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November 18, 2024 at 10:20 AM
I’m looking forward to giving the inaugural annual lecture of
SCRIPT, the Scottish Research Centre for IP & Technology Law, at the University of Edinburgh: ‘On Tech Diplomacy & Dilemmas of human-nonhuman interface’
25 Nov 2024, 17:30 - 20:00
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
SCRIPT, the Scottish Research Centre for IP & Technology Law, at the University of Edinburgh: ‘On Tech Diplomacy & Dilemmas of human-nonhuman interface’
25 Nov 2024, 17:30 - 20:00
www.law.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...