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**CALL FOR PAPERS** #_Bond Law Review_: Defence and National Security Law: Crime, Cohesion, and Chaos _Where does national security law help or hinder? Where are keys areas for consolidation or reform?_ **Guest Editors**: Dominique Dalla-Pozza, Danielle Ireland-Piper, Brendan Walker-Munro

In June 2026, the Director-General (DG) of ASIO described a ‘deteriorating global and domestic security environment’ with espionage and foreign interference ‘at extreme levels, while preparation for sabotage is growing in scale and sophistication’. The DG suggested that ‘social media is amplifying and accelerating grievance narratives, eroding trust in institutions, promoting discord and inflammatory rhetoric, exacerbating polarisation and creating a permissive environment for violence’. Is the law a useful tool in seeking to counter these threats? Can the law do better? For this themed special issue of the Bond Law Review, we invite papers from legal practitioners, academics and professionals from other disciplines that explore legal issues in national security in the context of a broader polycrisis. We note that national security law is inherently interdisciplinary, constituted by disciplines such as criminal law, constitutional law, administrative law, immigration law, military law, telecommunications law, and inevitably intersecting with human rights law and principles of international law. Climate change and social cohesion have been widely acknowledged as national security issues by national security and defence agencies for some time now. We strongly encourage co-authored submissions, particularly where authors bring the benefit of a multidisciplinary professional lens. Articles that consider the following issues are particularly welcomed: * Foreign interference * Social cohesion * Generative AI * Climate change * Civil preparedness * Gender * Terrorism All articles in the special issue will meet the academic standards of scholarship and peer review. Submission requirements: * Submissions are **due by 15 February 2027**. Submissions should be edited and referenced in accordance with the AGLC 4. * Indicative word count for articles is 6000 - 8000 words (excluding footnotes). Longer articles will be considered where a particular case is made. * Submissions must be lodged with all three editors on danielle.ireland-piper@anu.edu.au ; dominique.dalla-pozza@anu.edu.au ; and brendan.walker-munro@scu.edu.au . Once the peer review process has been completed, articles will be passed to the Editors of the Bond Law Review to manage formatting and publication. * To ensure consideration for this special issue, please include “SUBMISSION – NATIONAL SECURITY – SPECIAL ISSUE OF BLR” in the title of your email. If you have questions about the theme, please email: danielle.ireland-piper@anu.edu.au ; dominique.dalla-pozza@anu.edu.au ; and brendan.walker-munro@scu.edu.au . If you have questions about the Bond Law Review and the submission process please email blr@bond.edu.au **Open Access** This is a Diamond Open Access journal that does not levy any Article Processing Charge for the processing or publication of a paper and download statistics are provided for each article. All accepted papers are published and made available at no cost to the author or the reader. Article copyright remains with the author. Published articles are made available under an Attribution NonCommercial NoDerivatives Creative Commons Licence [(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Under the terms of this licence, authors retain full rights (i.e., are not bound by the terms of the licence, and can use their works in any way, including commercially), while others are only permitted to copy and distribute their work in an unadapted form for non-commercial purposes.

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