Celebrating the first edited volume on the work of Costas Douzinas, the conference brings together his collaborators, students and contemporaries in legal critique to reflect on different aspects of his oeuvre and to celebrate his significant contribution to legal scholarship over the last 40 years. From the inauguration of a distinctly critical legal project in the UK in the mid-1980s, Costas Douzinas has been at the forefront of a number of its key theoretical, legal and political debates. With key interventions in deconstructive and postmodern legal theory, legal aesthetics, psychoanalysis and law, the radical critique of human rights and, most recently, in the critical legal theorisation of social movement, protest, sovereign power, the state of exception and non-human rights, Douzinas’s influence has been widely felt. The conference and attendant book provides a key overview of some key aspects of his oeuvre, uncovering fresh resources and new directions of analysis.

The speakers are Peter Goodrich, Gil Leung, Adam Gearey, Ozan Kamiloglou, Julia Chryssostalis, Patrick Hanafin, Cormac Deane, Ceylan Yildiz, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Marcus De Matos, Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, Illan Wall, Jaco Barnard-Naude, Can Oztas.

PROGRAMME
 
FRIDAY JUNE 26
 
10-10.15. Opening remarks – Illan Wall and Alexis Nakagawa
 
10.15- 11.45 Panel 1

Peter Goodrich – The Superfetation of Costas D
Illan Wall – The Critical (Legal) Praxis of Costas Douzinas: Traversal
Adam Gearey – Wild Mercury Text: Douzinas, Bentham, De-ontology
 
12-1.30 Panel 2
Gil Leung – Just Listening
Ozan Kamiloglou – Very short story of Douzinas’ law and images that awaits its rebuttal
Julia Chryssostalis – Towards a Legal Phenomenology of Sounds: Douzinas’ Legal Aesthetics Beyond the Image
 
1.30-2.15 Lunch
 
2.15-3.30 Panel 3
Cormac Deane – The Electrical Dialectic
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera – A Legend
 
3.30-5 Panel 4
Patrick Hanafin – The Errancy of Rights and the Refusal of Law
Alexis Nakagawa – The Paradox of Non-Human Rights
Marcus De Matos – The right to reclaim lost bodies: Alterity, hope, and revolution
 
5-7 Drinks Reception
 
SATURDAY JUNE 27
 
10-11.30 Panel 5
Ceylan Yildiz – From Anomie to Antigone: A retrospective on the right to resistance in the work of Costas Douzinas
Jaco Barnard-Naude – Antigone(‘s) remains

Can Oztas – The Diplomat and the Critic: Reading Costas Douzinas from Inside the State
 
11.45-1.15 Panel 6
Joanna Bourke – A Greek Odyssey
Elena Psyllakou and Dionysis Mitropoulos – The Scholar in Parliament
 
1.15-2pm Lunch
 
2pm-2.30 Panel 7
Costas Douzinas in conversation with Oscar Guardiola-Rivera

Contact name: Patrick Hanafin