Ayça Çubukçu, Author at Critical Legal Thinking

Ayça Çubukçu

Arendt, Gaza and Personal Responsibility Under Genocide

by Ayça Çubukçu | 3 Feb 2025 | Article

In an essay crafted in 1964, “Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship,” Hannah Arendt reflects on a set of moral issues concerning our capacity to judge.1 The difficult questions she raises in this essay remain pertinent in our own genocidal times unfolding in Gaza...

Law & Critique: On Arendt, Race and Lawbreaking

by Ayça Çubukçu | 8 Mar 2021 | Article

Hannah Arendt was conservative in more ways than one.1 She valued the unprecedented, the unexpected, and the new,2 yet in ‘Civil Disobedience’ and other essays crafted at the end of the rebellious 1960s, struggled to square this valuation with a palpable desire for...