If listening is a technique or practice of the law, which is to say also of politics/police, what would an abolitionary listening sound like? The state listens and demands a listening disposition, listening is critical to all processes of arrest,...
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In Memoriam Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy (26 July 1940 – 23 August 2021) Jean-Luc Nancy passed away on August 23. It is a huge loss of someone who both as a philosopher and as a friend was so important to many of us. His talk last January at the 'Left Theory in the 21st century’...
‘Festival of Conversations, Ideas and Performances’
Institute for International Law and the Humanities (Melbourne Law School) It’s hard to believe, but Melbourne Law School's Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) is now 15 years old. This seems like an excellent reason to celebrate, and to bring a...
Neoliberalism’s Anthems
As I sit down to write a response to John Reynolds, Julia Emtseva, and Richard Clements, who generously reviewed my book, the musical accompaniment are the tunes of the Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020. National anthems in particular ring out. The familiar tunes and lyrics...
CfP: Utopia and the legal imagination
Utopias and utopian thinking can often be seen as an exercise in dreaming; the unrealistic imagining of an impossible society. In the thinking behind laws and legal systems, there is an underpinned imagining of ideal worlds. Drawing from the work of Austin Sarat,...
Workshop: Working with Benjamin on Law
WorkshopWorking with Benjamin on Law15, 16 & 17 July 2021ZfL Berlin & Online Organized by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa (CONICET/UBA), Hannah Franzki (University of Bremen) & Rafael Vieira (UFRJ) The workshop is funded by the Walter Benjamin Award for Young...
CfP: Conceptualisations of Violence
The Australian Feminist Law Journal editorial board welcomes papers of 8,000–10,000 words for the upcoming AFLJ Special Issue on ‘Conceptualisations of Violence’. The Special Issue seeks to challenge and expand on prevailing legal conceptualisations of ‘violence’ (for...
How do we see ‘most of the world’ from Sheikh Jarrah?
Isn’t this simply the matter? Isn’t this what ultimately unites us? These are the questions that wandered through my head as I observed the cartoon illustrated by Doaa el-Adl. Along with the hashtag #SaveSheikhJarrah, the cartoon shows a woman getting dragged from the...
CfP: After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics
Societies and publics in diverse political spaces are today confronted with social and political milieus that are ‘intentionally devoid of everything that a person needs to live’ (Bradley, 2019: 137). Such ‘hostile environments’ form spaces of abandonment, debility...
Seminar: Against Grading
In the final seminar of our series with the Warwick Centre for Critical Legal Studies, Stina Soderling and Carolina Alonso Bejarano present a compelling analysis of our practices of grading. Subscribe to Critical Legal Media here....