Stacey Henderson
@staceyhenderson.bsky.social
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Associate Professor in Law, Flinders University. International law. She/her.
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this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
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“Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.”

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
Revealed: Israeli military’s own data indicates civilian death rate of 83% in Gaza war
Figures from classified IDF database listed 8,900 named fighters as dead or probably dead in May, as overall death toll reached 53,000
www.theguardian.com
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Ahead of #UNGA80, where several states are expected to recognise the State of #Palestine, we're co-hosting a webinar on "Recognition of Palestine in International Law: Australian and New Zealand Perspectives", on 18 Aug 2025, 3-4PM AEST (5-6PM NZT). Register now www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/recognitio...
Recognition of Palestine in International Law
A webinar
www.eventbrite.co.nz
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If you're in the need for some cheering up, or are just starting your day and want to unleash some oxytocin/serotonin in your brain (hormones that make you feel good), then I highly recommend going through this thread.

Lots of folks sharing photos of their animal friends with a focus on snouts. 👇
Do you have a booop snout photo of your best mate?

Show me!

Let’s fill the TL with boooop snouts
(any animal btw)
Seriously, though.

This guy.

Booooop.

#BalmainMax
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Somehow, Episode 50 of #CalledToTheBar is not that far off.

In it we plan to *answer your questions* on any international law topic (within our competence) or life in academia topic (whether we're competent or not).

So drop your questions in the comments, or email or DM one of us!
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ALL GOVERNMENTS CAN AND SHOULD BE CRITICIZED
Segal's anti-semitism "review" can, and should, be ignored. There has been a longstanding need for better government work on anti-racism, but this review is compromised by the fact its first recommendation suggests codifying criticism of Israel as anti-semitism. Everything else stems from that.
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CfP!!! The @anzsil.org Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group will be holding a workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism' on 31 October at Melbourne Law School: drive.google.com/file/d/10YPs...
Excellent piece by Don Rothwell in The Conversation: “there’s an expectation that Labor governments should be holding all states accountable for egregious breaches of international law…there’s no other way you can characterise the US strikes on Iran” #intLaw
Why the US strikes on Iran are illegal and can set a troubling precedent
The US and Israel have adopted the most wide-ranging and robust interpretations of the right of self defence. Other nations may now follow their lead.
theconversation.com
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It appears Australia now supports a doctrine of using preventative force against potential, future threats.

*Rustles international law textbook, shakes copy of UN Charter.*

Oh, right, that doesn't exist.

So, we're just supporting aggression, then.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
Australia backs US strikes on Iran while urging return to diplomacy
Anthony Albanese says action to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was acceptable, but that talks should now resume.
www.abc.net.au
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To be even clearer "preventive self-defence" is just straight up aggression
Let's be clear: Israel's attack on Iran is not simply a violation of the UN Charter. It is a manifest violation of it. Few acts are more unequivocally illegal than preventive (non-imminent) self-defence. So Israel's attack is both unlawful and criminal -- the crime of aggression.
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Remember how last week Deputy PM Richard Marles talked about our “shared values” with the United States and specified that those values were “democracy and the rule of law”.
My producer sent this to me and off the headline I was like "oh right, so she got hit by a loose round"... but then when you see it... like, that officer saw she was a reporter and shot her ~on camera~. Absolutely wild. Hope @laurentomasi.bsky.social is ok.
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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This is an abomination.

The IDF is using an interlocking set of manifestly unlawful policies, killing civilians by the dozen, either with no military objective in view or in manifest disproportion to low-value targets.

It makes a mockery of international law.
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Excellent reflection on the huge problem for learning and assessment in law degrees posed by AI.
One of the things that's in one way an interesting challenge and another *deeply, deeply depressing* is working out the sort of essay question you can ask that genuinely lets students develop skills & demonstrate competence outside of timed exams that AI can't do better than a bare pass in.