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

Submit now and come to National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學 for another exciting #datagovernance #privacy #law #technology #globalgovernance conference in August 2024! ASIL International Law & Technology Interest Group SMU Yong Pung How School of Law Han-Wei Liu and Asian Privacy Scholars Network 🌍🌏🌎

Congratulations Shin-yi PENG on a truly exceptional monograph addressing challenges of WTO law Published with Cambridge University Press - Law & has received wonderful endorsements also from @taniavoon Anne van Aaken and Pierre Suavé World Bank I’m honoured to be at the launch!

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!

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.

It was wonderful to be able to present our @weaponisedtrade research to a broad audience of academics and policy makers from across the Indo-Pacific.

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…

Photos of 2023 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum: ila-asil-taiwan.org/photos ASIL International Law Association (ILA) ILA Australia

Amazing work done by Newcastle School of Law and Justice ‘s Rhanee Rego 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.

I'm thrilled to be updating my profile details, as I rejoin UNSW Law & Justice 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 CIBEL @ UNSW Law & Justice & @weaponisedtrade project. But before that, Bali holiday!

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I’m very happily back working at UNSW Law & Justice and it’s been a joy to see some new campus developments, but still see some of my favourite signage and favourite tree.

Probably my first and last post about loo paper but seriously this is gorgeous and for a good cause. yarnn.au/products/roll-…

It was a pleasure to attend this event today - lots of interesting intersections with @weaponisedtrade to get the brain cells buzzing.

‘Publish or Perish’ is now a card game — #funnynotfunny nature.com/articles/d4158…

Great piece by Nicholas Ross SMITH & 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/99/…

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

With less than a year until MC14, yesterday Australia convened 23 Trade Ministers, joined by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala 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