Cheryl Saunders

Laureate Professor Emeritus, Melbourne Law School. Constitutions and public law, in Australia & globally.

[Belinduh Pyne @belinduhpyne]

No media outlet seems to be covering this, but we’ve seen many young Brethren Church (cult) members showing up to booths in Liberal getup all over the country. But if you speak to them, they know nothing about local issues or how our democratic system works.

Under their church rules, they’re not allowed to vote but are allowed to interfere in elections. ATO was onto and raided them last year and they then closed their accounting firm.

I dug a bit deeper and they are donors to The Liberal Party, and it just gets darker. It makes complete sense why they are harassing voters nationwide. Probably a lot of them sitting in that room with Dutton today.

If you want to add anything to the thread please do, it’s concerning and not enough people are talking about it. Keep religion out of politics.

[Emily Kidd White @emilykiddwhite]

"Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law" by (the ever-brilliant) Maks Del Mar @CambridgeUP

https://t.co/qT5mJ6QJJ9

I have been waiting for this one.

[IACL-AIDC @iacl_aidc]

Announcement 📣The program for an International Conference on Constitutionalism and Post-Conflict Society, to be held at the University of Sarajevo on 28 April 2025, is now available.
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[Jean d'Aspremont @JdA_IntLaw]

New seminar series on accountability for mass atrocities in Gaza and the region | We start this Wednesday 29 January 2025 with a session on The International Criminal Court & the situation in Palestine | Registration: https://t.co/ymW6HuGdde| More events to be announced soon.

[Adem Kassie Abebe (Dr) @AdamAbebe]

#Kenya for free movement of #Africa'ns. More of this please!

@PR_Diomaye Senegal also doing great with Visa on arrival for virtually all Africans. I hope your pan-African ideals will lead you to take this further and abolition the visa requirements 🤩

https://t.co/2YXkc3MDFR

[Sam Bookman @SamBookman]

I'll be teaching an intensive Masters course on "Constitutional Law and Climate Change" at @MelbLawSchool in March. Tackling all things climate through conlaw theory and comparative practice! If you or someone you know are interested, see here - https://t.co/0NfIJSNWds

[Cheryl Saunders @CherylSaunders1]

And a great honour it is! A wonderful collection of papers by wonderful scholars, edited by my very good friends and colleagues @Adrienne_Stone1 and Lulu Weis. Many thanks to all involved.

[Comparative Constitutional Studies @CompConStudies]

Need New Year reading? Volume 2.2 in honour of @CherylSaunders1 is out now open access: https://t.co/QrG2UFKpDQ with contributions on federalism, comparative constitutionalism and constitution making from @Javiercouso6 @AMDziedzic Vicki Jackson Madhav Khosla @DineshaSam

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

In 2024, truth sought refuge under the covers of books. Rahul Bhatia chronicled democracy’s unraveling, Neha Dixit captured the struggles of displacement, and Gulzar’s poetry worried about the winds of change. Each book is an invitation to reclaim our country and join Krishna Kumar in saying ‘Thank you, Gandhi’.

Explore my list of 10 readings from the year gone by: https://t.co/E0OQbJpz9N

@IndianExpress #Year2024

[Tomás Daly @DemocracyTalk]

2024 was a very busy and mixed year, but more than anything it will always be the year that we lost our dear friend Julius Yam. Thinking of you my friend and wish you could be here with us still.

#friends #2024

[Cheryl Saunders @CherylSaunders1]

Looking forward to them both!

[Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88]

2025 is the 75th anniversary of the Indian Constitution & the 15th anniversary of the Kenyan Constitution.

So, I have two books coming out.

On 26 Jan: The Indian Constitution: A Conversation with Power (Harper): a critique of the Constitution through the lens of power.

[Cheryl Saunders @CherylSaunders1]

Also the extra strain placed on management of the pandemic by state governments, through lockdowns and border closures

[bradpsychology @bradpsychology]

There's a PhD for anyone who can calculate the total lives lost because of the Coaltition's vaccine stroll-out.

[Anmol Jain @AnmolJain_law]

A short review of 2024 - I argue that in this super year for elections, the biggest trend from India is the fall from grace of the ECI, and the electoral process.

[First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria @firstpeoplesvic]

Hope you mob are getting some down time over the break. Maybe even a bit of travel? If so, share a pic in the comments of where you are and tell us what Country you're on.

[𝕸𝖆𝖄𝖆 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝕶 @mayemusk4pf]

@oscar_contardo Dado lo inédito de la humanitaria iniciativa que fue Vicaría en una región en que las jerarquías de la Iglesia fueron tímidas (y a veces cómplices) ante ola de crueles dictaduras militares, pondría el énfasis en lo valioso que fue el caso chileno, y no en la mitad del vaso vacío.

[Zaid Al-Ali @zalali]

There’s No Need for a Constitution Right Now https://t.co/Q8vfu24MrK via @TheMediaLine

[Yoorrook Justice Commission @yoorrookjc]

We invite you to listen, learn and share.

Shared Truths brings together people's short submissions to Yoorrook, describing experiences of land, health, education and everyday life.

Collectively they build a picture of First Peoples strength and resistance, and the impacts of systemic injustice in Victoria from the start of colonisation, right through to today.

We invite you to learn from Shared Truths to understand our shared history, and work towards our shared future together and share the links and resources in our new Advocacy Hub: https://t.co/hFSZFs5FEV

#SharedTruths #FirstPeoples #SharedFuture #TruthTelling

[First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria @firstpeoplesvic]

When it comes to Aboriginal communities, cultures and lands, the experts are Aboriginal people. Treaty is about making sure our mobs can use local knowledge to come up with practical solutions at a local level. Thanks for walking with us in 2024!

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”

[𝕸𝖆𝖄𝖆 𝕸𝖚𝖘𝕶 @mayemusk4pf]

@Joyce_S_Berger Más allá de q discrepo de la evaluación del final de su posteo, en una época en q líderes abiertamente hostiles al Estado de Derecho son "legión", un Presidente q se ajusta a las formas jurídicas, q respeta a sus adversarios y q evita la violencia verbal, es sumamente bienvenido.

[Adem Kassie Abebe (Dr) @AdamAbebe]

I.e, 100 Billion each year, since 1982, paid in interest alone by the poorest to the richest!

Don't even mention the illicit transfers, and unfair trade terms!

To be poor is very, very expensive!

Not being an ingrate, but this complicates the "who is helping who" question.