Ross Tugade
@rosselle.bsky.social
Filipino lawyer and writer. PhD researcher, UNSW Faculty of Law & Justice.
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Ross Tugade
@rosselle.bsky.social
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Lawyer, Teacher, Writer
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I guess we’re *sort of* doing introductions again?
Posting a link to my stuff here to pin!
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Posting a link to my stuff here to pin!
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All that spectacle on flood control corruption and not a single person criminally charged. Filipinos do not deserve this.
November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
All that spectacle on flood control corruption and not a single person criminally charged. Filipinos do not deserve this.
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Ruby Rosselle L. Tugade’s Article surveys a century of international law scholarship in the PLJ to examine ways in which Philippine legal scholars have continuously engaged “Asia” and the Philippines’ place within it. philippinelawjournal.org/wp-content/u...
November 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Ruby Rosselle L. Tugade’s Article surveys a century of international law scholarship in the PLJ to examine ways in which Philippine legal scholars have continuously engaged “Asia” and the Philippines’ place within it. philippinelawjournal.org/wp-content/u...
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Reposted by Ross Tugade
Philippines warns of deadly storm surges as massive Typhoon Fung-wong nears super typhoon strength reut.rs/4qPzlGI
Philippines warns of deadly storm surges as massive Typhoon Fung-wong nears super typhoon strength
The Philippines' weather bureau warned of life-threatening storm surges of up to five metres and destructive winds as Typhoon Fung-wong churns toward the country's eastern coast, where it is forecast to intensify into a super typhoon before making landfall on Sunday night.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Philippines warns of deadly storm surges as massive Typhoon Fung-wong nears super typhoon strength reut.rs/4qPzlGI
ICC warrant out for Senator Bato according to Sec Remulla. Bato can now get his Christmas wish of joining Rody at The Hague
November 8, 2025 at 3:54 AM
ICC warrant out for Senator Bato according to Sec Remulla. Bato can now get his Christmas wish of joining Rody at The Hague
Just published in the @phillawjournal.bsky.social
Ruby Rosselle L. Tugade’s Article surveys a century of international law scholarship in the PLJ to examine ways in which Philippine legal scholars have continuously engaged “Asia” and the Philippines’ place within it. philippinelawjournal.org/wp-content/u...
November 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just published in the @phillawjournal.bsky.social
I hesitated posting this, but maybe it’s time to share so it serves its original purpose: an internal accounting, to bookend this part of my life.
Not Another Drug War Essay but also, yes another drug war essay. One that does not aspire to do grand things at all.
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Not Another Drug War Essay but also, yes another drug war essay. One that does not aspire to do grand things at all.
open.substack.com/pub/rosselle...
A Personal History of Histories
Writing about and working in the face of annihilation
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November 3, 2025 at 5:21 AM
I hesitated posting this, but maybe it’s time to share so it serves its original purpose: an internal accounting, to bookend this part of my life.
Not Another Drug War Essay but also, yes another drug war essay. One that does not aspire to do grand things at all.
open.substack.com/pub/rosselle...
Not Another Drug War Essay but also, yes another drug war essay. One that does not aspire to do grand things at all.
open.substack.com/pub/rosselle...
A Quezon (2025) review by way of three book titles:
- The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State (Leia Castañeda Anastacio)
- Massacre in the Clouds (Kim Wagner)
- Everything is Tuberculosis (John Green)
Screening in some HOYTS cinemas!!
- The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State (Leia Castañeda Anastacio)
- Massacre in the Clouds (Kim Wagner)
- Everything is Tuberculosis (John Green)
Screening in some HOYTS cinemas!!
November 1, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A Quezon (2025) review by way of three book titles:
- The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State (Leia Castañeda Anastacio)
- Massacre in the Clouds (Kim Wagner)
- Everything is Tuberculosis (John Green)
Screening in some HOYTS cinemas!!
- The Foundations of the Modern Philippine State (Leia Castañeda Anastacio)
- Massacre in the Clouds (Kim Wagner)
- Everything is Tuberculosis (John Green)
Screening in some HOYTS cinemas!!
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Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Perceiving Time and Hope in International Law Through Hadestown
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...
Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Perceiving Time and Hope in International Law Through Hadestown
[Ruby Rosselle ‘Ross’ Tugade is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Sydney), researching anti-communicst state violence in the Philippines] Anaïs Mitch…
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October 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Perceiving Time and Hope in International Law Through Hadestown
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...
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Weekend reading, for your consideration: a piece I wrote that’s included in the 5th Annual Pop Culture and International Law Symposium of @opiniojuris.bsky.social.
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...
Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: Perceiving Time and Hope in International Law Through Hadestown
[Ruby Rosselle ‘Ross’ Tugade is a PhD student at the Faculty of Law & Justice, University of New South Wales (Sydney), researching anti-communicst state violence in the Philippines] Anaïs Mitch…
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October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Weekend reading, for your consideration: a piece I wrote that’s included in the 5th Annual Pop Culture and International Law Symposium of @opiniojuris.bsky.social.
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/31/f...
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We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...
What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
October 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
We have a new preprint: osf.io/preprints/so...
What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
What have we learned about social media - the constantly moving target of empirical research - over the past decade?
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Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
Their Professors Caught Them Cheating. They Used A.I. to Apologize.
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October 30, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Two professors at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign said they grew suspicious after receiving identical apologies from dozens of students they had accused of academic dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
In the Philippines, we mostly call aunts “tita” and this includes even your parent’s friends. Anyway this is Filipina drag artist Tita Baby. She is your tita now.
October 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
In the Philippines, we mostly call aunts “tita” and this includes even your parent’s friends. Anyway this is Filipina drag artist Tita Baby. She is your tita now.
I made the cut in this year’s @opiniojuris.bsky.social Pop Culture and IL symposium. My piece comes out on Friday.
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/27/f...
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/27/f...
Fifth Annual Symposium on Pop Culture and International Law: An Introduction
[Dr Sarah Zarmsky is a Lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast School of Law and Deputy Managing Editor of Opinio Juris Dr Alonso Gurmendi is a Fellow in Human Rights and Politics at the London Scho…
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October 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
I made the cut in this year’s @opiniojuris.bsky.social Pop Culture and IL symposium. My piece comes out on Friday.
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/27/f...
opiniojuris.org/2025/10/27/f...
Two water-hungry abominations we ought to despise: AI data centers and golf courses. I will not explain
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Two water-hungry abominations we ought to despise: AI data centers and golf courses. I will not explain
Gonna watch Quezon on Friday so I can join the Discourse
October 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Gonna watch Quezon on Friday so I can join the Discourse
Exactly one angry netizen complaining about the 1935 Constitution in the comments section of a review of “Quezon” (in Mr Avanceña’s wall no less). Legal transfers bleeding out into Facebook thanks to Jerrold Tarog’s film, I guess??
October 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Exactly one angry netizen complaining about the 1935 Constitution in the comments section of a review of “Quezon” (in Mr Avanceña’s wall no less). Legal transfers bleeding out into Facebook thanks to Jerrold Tarog’s film, I guess??
Someone has to write how increasingly corny the Philippine Bar Exams have become. The 2026 Bar chair’s special letter to examinees took it up a notch by sounding like an Alpha Male motivational script.
October 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Someone has to write how increasingly corny the Philippine Bar Exams have become. The 2026 Bar chair’s special letter to examinees took it up a notch by sounding like an Alpha Male motivational script.
Spring is shaping to be me versus wattle and my inner saboteur.
October 15, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Spring is shaping to be me versus wattle and my inner saboteur.
Nothing like a rawdogged 6km afternoon walk under the sun to make me realise a key concept I overlooked in my project. I call this the idiot walk
October 15, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Nothing like a rawdogged 6km afternoon walk under the sun to make me realise a key concept I overlooked in my project. I call this the idiot walk
Encountering truly devastating grief four months into the PhD—TWICE—not in my bingo card but it is life, which must go on, and the best way to honor the people I lost is to just believe in me and make the distance make sense
October 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Encountering truly devastating grief four months into the PhD—TWICE—not in my bingo card but it is life, which must go on, and the best way to honor the people I lost is to just believe in me and make the distance make sense
One of the few times I will invoke that Filipino nationalist card is to defend our pop girlie Olivia Rodrigo. I have claws out.
October 4, 2025 at 5:27 AM
One of the few times I will invoke that Filipino nationalist card is to defend our pop girlie Olivia Rodrigo. I have claws out.
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The IIMM has released a report on the destruction of #Rohingya property in #Myanmar, positioning this as #genocide. I spoke to @janethanderson.bsky.social, who covered the report. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150350-my...
Myanmar: Making sure there is no return
On September 29, the UN Fact-Finding Mechanism on Myanmar publishes a report on “the destruction and seizure of Rohingya homes, farms, mosques, and other property in 2017.” An integral part of the gen...
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September 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The IIMM has released a report on the destruction of #Rohingya property in #Myanmar, positioning this as #genocide. I spoke to @janethanderson.bsky.social, who covered the report. www.justiceinfo.net/en/150350-my...
This is probably the biggest PH corruption scandal I have seen in recent memory. This is just one district, one province. They build poor infra on purpose to rake in BILLIONS. Meanwhile, it is so common now for Pinoys to die and lose homes in floods.
www.rappler.com/philippines/...
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'All Bulacan 1st District projects from 2019 to 2025 are substandard' – Brice Hernandez
(1st UPDATE) On average, only 30% to 50% of the contract amount actually goes to the construction of the project
www.rappler.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:47 AM
This is probably the biggest PH corruption scandal I have seen in recent memory. This is just one district, one province. They build poor infra on purpose to rake in BILLIONS. Meanwhile, it is so common now for Pinoys to die and lose homes in floods.
www.rappler.com/philippines/...
www.rappler.com/philippines/...