Critical Legal Conference 2012

Impressions of the Critical Legal Conference 2012

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22 September 2012
Crown on a Bridge in Stockholm, taken during CLC 2012 - Courtesy of Andreja Zevnik

The Crit­ical Legal Con­fer­ence (“CLC”) 2012. I thought I’d leave it until a week after the event, to allow time for the dust to settle, before reflect­ing on the con­nec­tions between the diverse papers, the intense con­ver­sa­tions and my own the­or­et­ical pre­oc­cu­pa­tions. It was hos­ted this year by the KTH Royal Insti­tute of Tech­no­logy in Stock­holm, in its beau­ti­ful, turn-​of-​the-​last-​century, lis­ted build­ings. Inter­est­ingly, the organ­iser tells me the Insti­tute doesn’t have a law depart­ment and doesn’t offer law degrees, which in a way makes it the ideal place to hold a legal con­fer­ence whose very iden­tity, to put it euphemist­ic­ally, seems forever in ques­tion. On this very site, there was dis­cus­sion over what it should be about, its (ir)relevance to the wider world, and ...
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Critical Legal Conference 2012: Download Official Book

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5 September 2012
Gardens of Justice Conference Book

The offi­cial book of the Crit­ical Legal Con­fer­ence 2012, con­tain­ing the con­fer­ence pro­gramme, plen­ary titles, streams, com­plete abstracts and more, is avail­able for free down­load here.
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Critical Legal Conference, 14 – 16 September 2012: Complete List of Streams

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2 May 2012
gardens-justice

Inter­na­tional law, Gen­o­cide and Imper­i­al­ism: The Colo­nial Ori­gins of Human Rights? We Need to Talk About Human Rights The Ques­tion: Gar­dens without Garden­ers? Garden­ers without Gardens? Con­veners: Oren Ben-​Dor (Southamp­ton) & Andreas Philippopoulos-​Mihalopoulos (West­min­ster, London) We take up the con­fer­ence theme in earn­est, look­ing at gar­dens as the place of ques­tion­ing. We invite you to walk through, dwell in, or simply look at gar­dens and to share your path. Gar­dens are yearned for and yet, the place in which this yearn­ing emerges remains hid­den from those who cre­ate and main­tain gar­dens. In hold­ing their secrets, in point­ing to their secret which is in the garden, gar­dens con­tinue to unfold as bound­ar­ies between the history(ies) within which they emerged and a more ...
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Trouble in the Garden: Critical Legal Studies & the Crisis

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30 April 2012
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By mod­est reck­on­ing 2012 is the fourth year since the Great Reces­sion began. Over the last four years the vic­tor­ies won by social­ist and trade uni­on­ist move­ments over the course of the nine­teenth and twen­ti­eth cen­tur­ies (uni­ver­sal health care, access to edu­ca­tion, pen­sions and more) have been under con­stant attack. All as part of a sys­tem­atic attempt to open up new aven­ues of accu­mu­la­tion for global cap­ital and to weaken the work­ing class, par­tic­u­larly in the ‘West’. The Occupy Move­ment, the Indig­nants and oth­ers have moun­ted stir­ring, if sporadic, protests in oppos­i­tion to this rising tide of bar­bar­ism, but as of yet the ‘Left’ has not moun­ted a ser­i­ous counter offens­ive. In effect, we are in the midst of an epochal ...
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CLC 2012: Critical Immigration, Asylum & Refugee Law Stream

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6 March 2012
No Borders

This stream aims to gather aca­dem­ics, gradu­ate stu­dents and act­iv­ists with an interest in immig­ra­tion law and policy, asylum and refugee law (as well as refugee and migra­tion stud­ies more gen­er­ally) in order to inaug­ur­ate a dis­cus­sion on legal pro­vi­sions and forms and prac­tices of cri­tique with, without or against the law. The stream calls for papers on any of the indic­at­ive top­ics lis­ted below and beyond: Immig­ra­tion Enforce­ment, Deten­tion, Refugee Camps, Deport­a­tion and resistance. Cap­it­al­ism & Human Waste pro­duc­tion in the time of per­petual crises Crim­in­al­iz­a­tion, Privat­iz­a­tion and Militarization The­or­ies of Move­ment Con­trols and the Soci­ety of Control Intern­ally Dis­placed Per­sons & Envir­on­ment­ally Dis­placed Per­sons: Cur­rent and future perspectives Crit­ical ana­lyses of legis­la­tion and policy Stream Organizers/​Chairs: Dr Thanos Zartaloudis (Birk­beck ...
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