With less than a year until MC14, yesterday Australia convened 23 Trade Ministers, joined by @NOIweala to discuss the future of the WTO
A reformed and strengthened WTO will be the cornerstone of the rules-based trading system and our best guarantor of openness and predictability
Vale @John_woodward1, a dear friend & a wise, insightful lawyer. A staunch advocate for dispute resolution & member of the @ADRResearch network. He was also a watercolour artist, great coffee companion, dedicated teacher, proud grandpa & more.
We are going to work out how to honour John's contribution to dispute resolution over the coming weeks. If you would like to contribute ideas, a paper or if you have any recollections that we can share, let me know.
I think this is an apt final post on this platform before I migrate fully to Ltoohey on Bluesky. It’s a real honour & privilege to celebrate the 75th anniversary of #Fulbright, an organisation dedicated to dialogue, engagement, research & global understanding. These things matter
Great piece by @1NRSmith & Bonnie Holster showing the value of "eschewing a western-centric understanding of foreign policy for a more relational view based on indigenous knowledge and perspectives (in this case, from te ao Māori: the Māori worldview)" academic.oup.com/ia/article/…
I’m very happily back working at @UNSWLaw and it’s been a joy to see some new campus developments, but still see some of my favourite signage and favourite tree.
I'm thrilled to be updating my profile details, as I rejoin @UNSWLaw on 12 Feb as a Professor in the School of Private & Commercial Law. I look forward to rejoining many of my colleagues, including working with @CIBELUNSW & @weaponisedtrade project. But before that, Bali holiday!
Amazing work done by @uonlawschool ‘s @Rhanee__ Rhanee Rego - persistence over so many years to address Australia’s most egregious wrongful conviction. Law school staff were all on stage at graduation ceremony when the result was announced & the news rippled across the stage.
Kathleen Folbigg, once labelled as the nation's worst female serial killer, has her convictions for killing her four children overturned by the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal. ab.co/4agOzwi
Vale Professor Riza Noer Arfani - I was last on a panel with him in October so this has come as a shock. I’ll miss his good humour and intellect - a scholar and a gentleman. wtochairs.org/memory-dr-riza…
@TooheyL & @MarkusAWagner presented their ongoing and timely research project on the international law applicable to varied measures of economic statecraft used to advance foreign policy objectives, and asked whether a doctrine of “weaponized trade” is (and should be) emerging.
I’ve travelled to Asia over a long enough period that I should know better than to order “pungent” dumplings, esp for breakfast.
The taste is sensational but the chilli/Szechuan pepper combo has left me coughing in a fashion that is no longer acceptable in the covid era.
In Hsinchu today, with a steam of interesting activities including learning about the innovation ecosystem at the Hsinchu science park, and the universities that have contributed the expertise of 15,000 PhD graduates!
Congratulations @pengshinyi on a truly exceptional monograph addressing challenges of @wto law Published with @CUP_Law & has received wonderful endorsements also from @taniavoon @AakenAnne and Pierre Suavé @WorldBank I’m honoured to be at the launch!
This was a bit of an unexpected trip - I was expecting R&D on aquaculture and traceability. Instead, I got a bit of traceability, a big tank of sharks, and some extraordinary preserved specimens. #lostintranslation