Property(In)Justice
@property-injustice.bsky.social
How does international law's conceptualisation of land as property facilitate spatial (in)justice? An ERC-funded project based at Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin, PI Amy Strecker https://www.landlawandjustice.eu/
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Delighted to say that this new co-edited volume by myself and Stefan Vogenauer is now available as volume 25 of the Global Perspectives on Legal History series. It is open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications... We have a great set of authors who contributed to this.
We are over the moon that this is out, featuring chapters from the whole Property[in]Justice team and other brilliant scholars on #Empire, #history and #law. It's open access - so please enjoy! Thank you to @donalcoffey.bsky.social @maxplancklaw.bsky.social and everyone else who worked so hard!
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I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
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Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
On Environmental Democracy and the Collisons’ “Abundance-Verse”
Andrew Jackson 21 November 2025 I. Introduction A clamour of praise greeted John Collison’s “how to get Ireland moving” Op-Ed following its publication in the Irish Times on 25th October: the Irish…
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November 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I’ve written something on John Collison’s Op-Ed and environmental democracy
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
Next time you’re out in Dublin, check if you’re being “socially de-risked” by a friendly face from his think-tank
elajucd.com/2025/11/21/o...
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'The Government doesn't have a monopoly on the common good. Just look at the state of the Irish environment, the housing, energy, water & climate crises ... Oversight by the courts of Government and public-authority decision-making has never been more important'
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
Judicial reviews serve the common good
Rather than castigating public-spirited ordinary people concerned by planning problems, the Government should focus on properly resourcing the planning and legal systems
www.irishexaminer.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
'The Government doesn't have a monopoly on the common good. Just look at the state of the Irish environment, the housing, energy, water & climate crises ... Oversight by the courts of Government and public-authority decision-making has never been more important'
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
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Spot on here by @orlakelleher.bsky.social
'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'
'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'
Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
Opinion: Beware of the judicial review red herring
Dr Orla Kelleher pushes back against the narrative that judicial reviews are to blame for the housing crisis.
www.irishlegal.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Spot on here by @orlakelleher.bsky.social
'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'
'we need to be alert to the risk that the housing crisis is potentially being weaponised to push through a deregulatory agenda in planning and environmental law'
“Land is not just property to be bought or sold.” [...] “It is where people build roots, express their culture, establish communities and a sense of belonging.”
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report
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Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
UN expert calls for people-centred approach to land that limits private property and expropriations
NEW YORK - Access to affordable, well-located and serviced land is at the heart of realising the right to adequate housing, a UN expert said today.“The global housing crisis cannot be addressed withou...
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October 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
“Land is not just property to be bought or sold.” [...] “It is where people build roots, express their culture, establish communities and a sense of belonging.”
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing presenting his latest report
www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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⚖️ 🌿 Preventing environment harms is fundamental to fulfill the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
That’s why, for my third report, I developed a framework for Environmental, Social, and Human Rights Impact Assessments.
That’s why, for my third report, I developed a framework for Environmental, Social, and Human Rights Impact Assessments.
October 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
⚖️ 🌿 Preventing environment harms is fundamental to fulfill the human right to a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
That’s why, for my third report, I developed a framework for Environmental, Social, and Human Rights Impact Assessments.
That’s why, for my third report, I developed a framework for Environmental, Social, and Human Rights Impact Assessments.
We're hosting our final project event on 29 Sept.
Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law
W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us
@amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social
Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law
W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us
@amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
We're hosting our final project event on 29 Sept.
Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law
W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us
@amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social
Land, Property and Spatial [In]Justice: Towards a Legal Geography of International Law
W/ project team & stellar guest speakers who influenced us
@amandabyer.bsky.social @sonyacotton.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social @elaj-ucd.bsky.social
Check out the recent episode of the Save Our Sperrins podcast in conversation with Amy Strecker:
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#No.13 Law, Land, and Justice: Dr Amy Strecker on the Sperrins | The Sperrins Podcast
In this episode, I speak with Dr Amy Strecker, Associate Professor at the Sutherland School of Law in UCD and one of the volunteer expert witnesses supporting the Public Inquiry into goldmining in the...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Check out the recent episode of the Save Our Sperrins podcast in conversation with Amy Strecker:
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buttonsoptions4u.podbean.com/e/law-land-a...
Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Our first project PhD has officially graduated! Congratulations @sonyacotton.bsky.social for her research on the meaning of 'community' in international law, and its effects on legal standing + spatial justice in post-apartheid southern Africa! @amandabyer.bsky.social @sineadmercier.bsky.social
📣 New journal article by @amandabyer.bsky.social just published!
'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)
Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...
'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)
Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...
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August 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📣 New journal article by @amandabyer.bsky.social just published!
'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)
Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...
'Emparking Empire: Exclusionary Nature and Spatial Injustice in Commonwealth Caribbean Environmental Law', LEAD - Law, Environment and Development Journal, 21/2 (2025)
Open Access: lead-journal.org/content/a210...
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"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law.
If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."
- Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.
If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."
- Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.
May 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"The EU supplies at least a third of Israel’s arms imports and has its most comprehensive association agreement with the country. Conditional on respect for international law.
If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."
- Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.
If the political will exists, the EU has the means to act."
- Josep Borrell, past EU Foreign Policy High Representative.
Thanks to @owenmcintyre.bsky.social and @ucc.ie Law for hosting another superb conference on Law and the Environment this year. We were delighted with the opportunity to present a project panel + discuss @property-injustice.bsky.social research with the other delegates. Go raibh maith agaibh go leir
May 2, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Thanks to @owenmcintyre.bsky.social and @ucc.ie Law for hosting another superb conference on Law and the Environment this year. We were delighted with the opportunity to present a project panel + discuss @property-injustice.bsky.social research with the other delegates. Go raibh maith agaibh go leir
Excited to see our own @amandabyer.bsky.social's book (with over 10 000 downloads) at #slsa2025. Thank you to @slsauk.bsky.social for another excellent and intellectually stimulating array of socio-legal topics. Download Byer's book (open access) at
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
April 16, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Excited to see our own @amandabyer.bsky.social's book (with over 10 000 downloads) at #slsa2025. Thank you to @slsauk.bsky.social for another excellent and intellectually stimulating array of socio-legal topics. Download Byer's book (open access) at
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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"Climate change is a gender issue" writes @cjnicoson.bsky.social. Read more at elajucd.com/2025/03/01/b...
Blog Post: Gender Shaping Climate Change – Courts, Data, and Harm
Christie Nicoson There is a notable gender imbalance in climate decision-making, with only around 20% of countries sending women to the United Nations climate negotiations,[1] and court decisions h…
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April 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
"Climate change is a gender issue" writes @cjnicoson.bsky.social. Read more at elajucd.com/2025/03/01/b...
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In 2023, and despite lack of government opposition, a Bill to protect Ireland's environment and meet climate goals lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil. Jamie McLoughlin explores this innovative and potentially transformative Bill in more detail: elajucd.com/2025/03/15/a...
An analysis of the Climate Action and Biodiversity (Mandates of Certain Organisations) Bill 2023
Jamie McLoughlin Introduction It has by now been well established that Ireland – like the rest of the world – is facing grave climate and biodiversity crises. Indeed, the Dáil declared a climate an…
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April 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In 2023, and despite lack of government opposition, a Bill to protect Ireland's environment and meet climate goals lapsed with the dissolution of the Dáil. Jamie McLoughlin explores this innovative and potentially transformative Bill in more detail: elajucd.com/2025/03/15/a...
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Sharing a new book celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Landscape, Law & Justice Research Group edited by Michael Jones, Amy Strecker, Gunhild Setten & Don Mitchell and published in November 2024.
Access the book here: doi.org/10.62077/9n5...
Access the book here: doi.org/10.62077/9n5...
February 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Sharing a new book celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Landscape, Law & Justice Research Group edited by Michael Jones, Amy Strecker, Gunhild Setten & Don Mitchell and published in November 2024.
Access the book here: doi.org/10.62077/9n5...
Access the book here: doi.org/10.62077/9n5...
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Friends, we are happy to share our CfP for the ESIL pre-conference workshop, which will take place in September in Berlin. This event will mark the official launch of our IG. We would be delighted to see many of you there 🥳
Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL
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Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL
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April 1, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Friends, we are happy to share our CfP for the ESIL pre-conference workshop, which will take place in September in Berlin. This event will mark the official launch of our IG. We would be delighted to see many of you there 🥳
Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL
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Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing IL
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"The proposed mining application in the Sperrin mountains not only has serious implications for human and animal health across our island, but also for the natural and cultural heritage of one of our island’s most precious landscapes." Read EJNI @ejni.bsky.social report at: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
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April 8, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"The proposed mining application in the Sperrin mountains not only has serious implications for human and animal health across our island, but also for the natural and cultural heritage of one of our island’s most precious landscapes." Read EJNI @ejni.bsky.social report at: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
EJNI @ejni.bsky.social have published this helpful report on the gold mine application for the Sperrin Mountains (NI) & transboundary consultation with the south: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
EJNI @ejni.bsky.social have published this helpful report on the gold mine application for the Sperrin Mountains (NI) & transboundary consultation with the south: ejni.net/wp-content/u...
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social
@antaisce.bsky.social
@foeireland.bsky.social
@birdwatchireland.bsky.social
@peatlandconserve.bsky.social
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This Thursday (10th April) at 6pm in Dublin! Asylum Under Pressure with
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...
Asylum Under Pressure: Public Lecture and Panel Discussion
Sean Rehaag (York University) w/ Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst) Hilkka C. Becker (Int Protection Appeals Tribunal) & Cathryn Costello (UCD)
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April 8, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This Thursday (10th April) at 6pm in Dublin! Asylum Under Pressure with
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...
Professor Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall Law School, York University), Professor Rebecca Hamlin (UMass Amherst Migration Working Group), Hilkka Becker (Int Protection Appeals Ireland) and me! www.eventbrite.com/e/asylum-und...
Huge congrats to Dr. Raphael Ng'etich who successfully defended his Viva at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social: "The Impact of Carbon Credit Schemes in Conservancies in Northern Kenya on the Governance of Unregistered Community Land". Thanks to Robert Kibugi, Joseph McMahon and @profccostello.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Huge congrats to Dr. Raphael Ng'etich who successfully defended his Viva at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social: "The Impact of Carbon Credit Schemes in Conservancies in Northern Kenya on the Governance of Unregistered Community Land". Thanks to Robert Kibugi, Joseph McMahon and @profccostello.bsky.social
'Property' is untenable as the dominant paradigm regulating people-place-environment. What alternatives exist, grounded in the specific conditions of communities? Welcome to the exciting and radical world of landscape research!
Raveena Tamoria and I gave an introduction to landscape law to landscape planners, landscape architects and landscape geographers. Landscape reclaiming its legal identity is so important for climate justice, cultural rights and environmental protection.
Learn more here: landscaperesearch.org
Learn more here: landscaperesearch.org
March 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
'Property' is untenable as the dominant paradigm regulating people-place-environment. What alternatives exist, grounded in the specific conditions of communities? Welcome to the exciting and radical world of landscape research!
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Some exciting post this morning. My copy of Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire arrived today from @maxplancklaw.bsky.social - includes my chapter 'A Haunting Absence' on the origins of international energy law in the legal techniques used in the colonial conquest of Ireland.
March 25, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Some exciting post this morning. My copy of Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire arrived today from @maxplancklaw.bsky.social - includes my chapter 'A Haunting Absence' on the origins of international energy law in the legal techniques used in the colonial conquest of Ireland.
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Thank you to Otto, Stefan & @donalcoffey.bsky.social & the @property-injustice.bsky.social team. All articles free & available to read open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications...
Legal Transfer and Legal Geography in the British Empire
www.lhlt.mpg.de
March 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thank you to Otto, Stefan & @donalcoffey.bsky.social & the @property-injustice.bsky.social team. All articles free & available to read open access here: www.lhlt.mpg.de/publications...
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My book Placing Property has officially reached 10k downloads!
This book explains how property is rooted in spatial injustice.
Thank you to everyone who downloaded and shared my work!
Hopefully this empowers people to think about how to reimagine land law.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book explains how property is rooted in spatial injustice.
Thank you to everyone who downloaded and shared my work!
Hopefully this empowers people to think about how to reimagine land law.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
March 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
My book Placing Property has officially reached 10k downloads!
This book explains how property is rooted in spatial injustice.
Thank you to everyone who downloaded and shared my work!
Hopefully this empowers people to think about how to reimagine land law.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
This book explains how property is rooted in spatial injustice.
Thank you to everyone who downloaded and shared my work!
Hopefully this empowers people to think about how to reimagine land law.
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Truly a viva to remember! A remarkable thesis from @sonyacotton.bsky.social congrats too to the @property-injustice.bsky.social team
Congratulations to @sonyacotton.bsky.social for passing her PhD Viva with no corrections at @ucdschooloflaw.bsky.social. Special thanks to the examiners Prof. Lucas Lixinski @heritagelaw.bsky.social and Prof. Cathryn Costello @profccostello.bsky.social and to the Chair, Prof. Ian O'Donnell
March 11, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Truly a viva to remember! A remarkable thesis from @sonyacotton.bsky.social congrats too to the @property-injustice.bsky.social team