UNSW is continuing its generous Scientia Scholarship scheme, which features a full fee waiver, a $41,209 (AUD) annual stipend, and an annual professional development fund. The UNSW Scientia PhD Scholarship Scheme is part of UNSW's dedication to harnessing our...
Ben Golder
UNSW PhD Scholarship in Social Movements, Political Activism & Legal Change
Social movements often attempt to address exclusion and inequality by making political claims that rely on legal ideas such as human rights or sovereignty. They also frequently use legal institutions and forms in their political activism, for example, by pursuing...
PhD in Security, Precarious Populations and the Neoliberal Age (UNSW, Sydney)
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, is offering a four year scholarship to work in the Law School on a PhD project entitled ‘Security, Precarious Populations, and the Neoliberal Age’. The package includes full tuition, a stipend of $40,000 AUD p.a., plus a...
Human rights without humanism
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in Paris on December 10, 1948. The result of two years of drafting by a committee of the Commission on Human Rights—whose famous chair was Eleanor Roosevelt—the text of...
CfP: The Politics of Legality in a Neo-liberal Age, University of New South Wales, Symposium 1–2 August 2014
< p style="text-align: center;" align="center"> < p style="text-align: justify;"This symposium will examine the nexus between the political dominance of liberal legal ideas and the economic dominance of neo-liberal capitalism. According to classical liberal...
Foucault, Anti-Humanism & Human Rights
Responding to recent engagements with the late work of French Philosopher Michel Foucault, I will argue that he does not submit to the ‘moral superiority’ of humanism and introduce a liberal humanist subject, as is often argued. Rather, Foucault’s late investigations...