An intensive doctoral retreat in Fort Vuren, The Netherlands, 5-7 June 2023 What does it mean to be critical? Is it a core feature of any academic work or does the word signify a certain approach? Is it possible to be both critical and doctrinal at the same time...
LONDON CONFERENCE IN CRITICAL THOUGHT 2023School of Social Sciences and Professions, London Metropolitan UniversityJune 30th and July 1st, 2023 LCCT2023 CfP (full call) – deadline March 13th 2022 The Call for Presentations is now open for the...
5-9 June 2023 University of Lucerne We are pleased to announce the next in our annual series of Critical Times workshops. The theme of this year’s program is Movement(s), and you can find out more via the link. The program has been designed with...
Law & Extractivism in the Anthropocene Extractivism, as an organising concept of our times, turns on appropriation, non-reciprocity, depletion, and subjugation. Its ideology and practices are entwined with the histories and legacies of colonialism and...
Taking the Law out for a Walk in the Anthropocene Conference What is “the Anthropocene”? Prevailing scholarship identifies it as nomenclature for time, a marker of temporality. But it could also be framed as: a place, a spatio-temporal landscape, a utopia, a dystopia,...
Nomos: Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power, 2nd annual Conference, Gothenburg 12-13 May 2023...
All around the world we are witnessing rights mobilisations for a more just and egalitarian world and ecology. From the feminist revolutions in Rojava and Iran, the anti-colonial struggle in Palestine, to feminist and indigenous movements in Argentina, India, Brazil,...
For many researchers, methodology and joy don’t belong in the same sentence. Legal researchers in particular often seem to place methods-talk somewhere between irritating impediment and unbridgeable chasm. Some of these anxieties are well founded: law school legal...
As a fundamental component of the liberal script, human rights represent a favoured terrain of academic inquiry across the social sciences. Over the last few years, in particular, the subject’s historiography has become increasingly contested. This historiographical...
Legal humanities / cultural legal studies refers to the study of the broad concerns of law and justice through the methods and knowledges of the humanities. It encompasses history, culture, art, literature, philosophy, and related disciplines and interdisciplinary...