Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks

Called to the Bar: International Law over Drinks

A podcast of informal conversation about topical issues in international law, life in academia and whatever else is on our mind. Hosted by Douglas Guilfoyle, Juliette McIntyre, Tamsin Paige, Imogen Saunders, and Nitna Tzouvala. Music: Sam Barsh, Oils of Au Lait

Episodes

63. Bombing Caracas: The Use of Force, Abducting a Head of State, and the Unravelling of International Law

January 7, 2026 • 75 mins
In this special bonus episode of Called to the Bar, the full podcast crew assembles to confront the legal fallout from the US bombing of Venezuela and the abduction of its sitting president, Nicolás Maduro. With drinks in hand and very little patience for bad legal arguments, Juliette McIntyre is joined by Imogen Saunders (ANU), Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin), Douglas Guilfoyle (UNSW Canberra), and Ntina Tzouvala (UNSW Sydney). Th...
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62. Feminist Approaches to International Law in a Time of Authoritarian Capitalism - ANZSIL GSIL Roadshow

December 19, 2025 • 45 mins
In this special roadshow episode, Associate Professor Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin University) takes Call to the Bar on the road to Melbourne for the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law’s Gender, Sexuality and International Law (GSIL) Interest Group 2025 Workshop. Across two days of papers, panels, and conversations on feminist approaches to international law under authoritarian capitalism, Tamsin sits down wit...
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61. End of year drinks: gangsterism as international law

December 13, 2025 • 68 mins
In the penultimate episode of Season 2, host Douglas Guilfoyle brings together the full Called to the Bar team — Tamsin Paige, Ntina Tzouvala, Juliette McIntyre, and Imogen Saunders — for their end-of-year drinks and a candid debrief (and group therapy session) on a tumultuous year in international law. From the explosion of advisory opinions, to debates over whether small states are pioneering new forms of legal statecraft or mer...
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60. Publishing, Peer Review and What Editors Wish You Knew

December 4, 2025 • 50 mins
In Episode 60 of Called to the Bar, host Imogen Saunders (ANU) sits down with three leading journal editors — Prof Ingrid Brunk of the American Journal of International Law, Prof Liz Fisher of the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, and Prof Jolyon Ford of the Australian Yearbook of International Law — to unpack the world of academic publishing in law. They discuss their paths into academia, what makes a submission stand out, how jour...
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59. Gaza, the Trump Peace Plan and Security Council Resolution 2803

November 27, 2025 • 61 mins
In this episode of Called to the Bar - International Law over Drinks, Douglas Guilfoyle, Tamsin Philipa Paige, and Ntina Tzouvala gather (with hot chocolate, peppermint tea, and white wine) to unravel UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and its annexed “President Donald J. Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict.” Douglas reads through the resolution’s greatest hits, prompting the panel to ask: How does any of this al...
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58. The Newcastle and Manchester Roadshow: Methodology, Feminism, and the End of the World

November 18, 2025 • 63 mins
Pack your travel mugs and methodological curiosity - Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige is on the road! This roving episode of Called to the Bar comes to you from Newcastle and Manchester, where Tamsin chats with an impressive lineup of international law scholars about everything from space law to feminist lawyering, utopias to witnesses in international criminal law, and maybe even a bit about gardens. Along the way, we hear from: Cris va...
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57. The UNRWA Opinion: The ICJ, the future of the UN system and ... K-Pop Demon Hunters?

October 31, 2025 • 60 mins
The UNRWA Opinion: The ICJ, the future of the UN system and ... K-Pop Demon Hunters? In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Juliette McIntyre (University of South Australia) is joined by Dr Tamer Morris (University of Sydney) for a dive into the International Court of Justice’s recent advisory opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations...
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56. Does Australia have Credible Climate Targets? (Spoilers: no)

October 23, 2025 • 55 mins
In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala (UNSW Sydney) is joined by Dr Julia Dehm (La Trobe Law School) and Dr Cristy Clark (University of Canberra) to unpack Australia’s newly announced 2035 emissions reduction target - a pledge to cut national emissions by 62–70% below 2005 levels - as well as the international legal framework within which it sits. The conversation examines how t...
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55. Defending the Defence: Life on the Other Side of the Courtroom

October 16, 2025 • 49 mins
In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Juliette McIntyre (University of South Australia) is joined by A/Prof Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) and special guest Kate Gibson, an international criminal defence lawyer with nearly two decades of experience before the world’s most prominent tribunals. From the ICTR to the ICC, Kate has represented accused persons in cases arising from confl...
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54. Recognition, the United Nations and the Question of Palestine

October 4, 2025 • 63 mins
In this episode, host Dr Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Professor Ardi Imseis (Queen’s Law School, Canada) for a timely conversation about international law, the United Nations, and the long struggle for Palestinian statehood. As Western states — including Australia — formally recognize the State of Palestine at the current UN General Assembly, Professor Imseis brings a unique perspective as both scholar and practitioner. A former UN...
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53. What does it mean to expel an ambassador?

September 26, 2025 • 36 mins
Following Australia's expulsion of the ambassador of Iran for Iran's complicity in anti-semitic attacks, Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Univeristy) sits down with former ambassador, and honorary ANU professor of international law, Matthew Neuhaus to talk through the legal implications. As usual, we begin with some background on Matthew's career path through international law (and favoured drink).
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52. Recusal, Impartiality, and Judicial Ideology at the ICJ

September 18, 2025 • 55 mins
In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Associate Professor Ntina Tzouvala (UNSW Sydney) is joined by Dr Juliette McIntyre (University of South Australia) and guest Dr Victor Kattan (University of Nottingham) to explore the fraught question of judicial impartiality and recusal at the International Court of Justice. Prompted by Judge Julia Sebutinde’s controversial remarks in August 2025—suggesting ...
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51. "Drug boats, cartels, and kinetic strikes, oh my"

September 9, 2025 • 42 mins
In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige is joined by Professor Rob McLaughlin and Dr Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg to unpack a troubling event: the U.S. military’s kinetic strike on a suspected drug vessel in the Caribbean resulting in the deaths of 11 people. The strike, ordered under President Trump for “deterrent” effect, has drawn widespread criticism and bizarre denials f...
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50. Your international law questions answered!

August 22, 2025 • 59 mins
Fifty episodes in, and we’re still going strong (and still without footnotes). In this special milestone edition of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Douglas Guilfoyle (Professor of International Law and Security, UNSW Canberra) is joined by the full crew: Dr Juliette McIntyre (University of South Australia), A/Prof Imogen Saunders (ANU Law School), A/Prof Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School), and A/Prof N...
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49. The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

August 7, 2025 • 69 mins
What are the consequences of the International Court of Justice's recent Advisory Opinion on climate change, especially for the small island developing States who spearheaded this initiative? Associate Professor Ntina Tzouvala talks through the opinion and its consequences with two practitioner academics with deep knowledge of the proceedings: Associate Professor Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh of the Faculty of Law, University of Ams...
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48. Life on the deep sea bed? Marine genetic resources and the Agreement on the Conservation of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

August 1, 2025 • 41 mins
David Bowie once asked, is there life on Mars? Today we ask, is there life 3,000 metres or more below sea level – and what should international law do to protect it and regulate its exploitation? In this episode we are joined by Professor Joanna Mossop of the Faculty of Law, Victoria University of Wellington to discuss the 2023 Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable ...
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47. The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency

July 25, 2025 • 56 mins
This week Ntina Tzouvala is joined by Juan Auz to discuss the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency. What is it, how did it come about and what's its significance? (Note: this episode was recorded before the ICJ advisory opinion on climate change was handed down.) Recommendations: Juan Auz, The Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ Advisory Opinion on the Climate Emergency: A Global South...
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46. Dial M for Methodology - Called to the Bar Live

July 4, 2025 • 36 mins
This week we have a special episode recorded live at the Symposium Bar and Restaurant at the Australian National University as a side-event at the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law annual conference. Douglas Guilfoyle, Tamsin Phillipa Paige, Imogen Saunders, Juliette McIntyre and Jessie Hohmann discuss methodology in international law scholarship: what is it, is it even possible and why does it freak lawyers ...
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45. Paper, Scissors - Rock or Island?

June 26, 2025 • 58 mins
Do you want a rock, DJ - or an island? This week the panel discusses the difference between rocks and islands in international law and why it matters, with special reference to the South China Sea case and subsequent legal arguments about archipelagoes. Tamsin Phillipa Paige chairs a discussion featuring co-hosts Douglas Guilfoyle and Imogen Saunders and special guest Tim Stephens. Recommendations: Alex P. Dela Cruz, Making Hist...
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44. Can the US take the war on drugs to Mexico?

June 19, 2025 • 40 mins
Is the war on drugs literally a war? This week Douglas Guilfoyle discusses the supposed "unable and unwilling" doctrine that is said to justify the use of force against non-state actors in other states' territory with Tamsin Phillipa Paige and Ntina Tzouvala. In particular, we ask could this doctrine be used to justify a US strikes on drug cartels in Mexico or Nicaragua as a response to the opioid crisis? (Spoilers: no.) Music: ...
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