Submissions to the Annals of Air and Space Law close this Sunday (1 September) - get those #airlaw and #spacelaw papers in!

"the [air traffic] controller increased their chances of falling asleep 'by lying across two chairs, not moving, and not undertaking activities to maintain mental alertness.'" abc.net.au/news/2024-09-0… via ABC Australia

Submissions for Volume 49 are now closed; submissions for Volume 50 will open on 1 April 2025. *** Les soumissions pour le volume 49 sont maintenant terminées ; les soumissions pour le volume 50 seront ouvertes le 1er avril 2025.

Now unmasked as a co-author, together with Hristina Talkova and Rosanna Hoffmann, of the case for the IISL 33rd Manfred Lachs Space Law Moot Court Competition. Keeping it secret from the outstanding IASL team was a challenge - subterfuge isn't my forte ...

Positively stoked to have won the 2024 Brennan Essay Prize in Public International Law, with thanks to ILA Australia. For anyone interested, my essay can be downloaded here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

13 more signatures since January for the #ArtemisAccords, for a total of 47. If this pace is maintained in 2025 - a big if - then we start to close in on 50% of Outer Space Treaty parties also being parties to the Accords. Seems momentous.

My first appearance on the NUS Faculty of Law Law Research Blog: an article about AI, illustrated by an AI imagining its robot ancestor reading ancient treaties. Pleasantly meta, delightfully recursive! blog.nus.edu.sg/lawresearch/20…

A pleasure to appear alongside the inimitable Donal Hanley - Domhnall Ó hAinlighe in the latest Cape Town Convention Journal. Professor Hanley’s article looks at leasing & the Cape Town Convention. My piece focuses on restoring Convention confidence post-‘Grand Theft Aero.’ elgaronline.com/view/journals/…

Back in City of Melbourne for a few days. Somehow myki (Metro Trains) is even worse than I remember?

Vale Elizabeth Nelson (1923 - 2025), my dear grandmother, who passed away peacefully today at the age of 101. Photo is from her military identity card, taken upon her enlistment in the Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force during the Second World War.

Finally, an internet campaign I can get behind - a thylacine emoji! The Unicode Consortium Apple #TasmanianTiger

[From 🔵☁️] Excited to share my new article, 'The Exclusive Making of Space Law', published (open access) in LJIL. It took me 3 weeks to write the first draft, but 3 years to finalise - and I'm grateful to everyone who helped me along the way. doi.org/10.1017/S09221…

The 5th Machine Lawyering Conference Abstract submission deadline extended to 6 February 2025 law.cuhk.edu.hk/app/events/cal…

If you are a McGill Faculty of Law | Faculté de droit student (if not, do not apply) interested in working with me as a paid research assistant this summer on #IntellectualProperty , #Innovation, and legal theory, send me an email. Strong writing & teamwork skills necessary. Quantitative methods a bonus.

Greg Sargent Canada needs to welcome these scientists into the country through visas, positions in universities, funding, and building partnerships around them. My piece in The Globe and Mail: theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

🚨 Volume 49 is now available online via HeinOnline / Le volume 49 est maintenant disponible en ligne via HeinOnline

New post on our blog, Commentaries on Air and Space Law / Nouveau billet de blogue sur nos Commentaires sur le droit aérien et spatial : Space Object Liability Beyond the Space Treaties: A Lens on Africa mcgill.ca/iasl/article/s… via IASL

Been down this road myself - testing out large language models to see how they fare with different legal citation styles. The laborious work of citation formatting is clearly destined for automation, but we're not quite there yet. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.02763