In searching for SWAIL, this project takes as its point of departure that Eastern Europe occupies a liminal space within the discipline of international law. Neither of the ‘core’, nor of the ‘periphery’, the region occupies a liminal, semi-peripheral, and...

DEADLINE: 30 SEPTEMBER 2024 Date: 18-19 Feb 2025 Venue: Hybrid (Online via Zoom & AS8 04-04)                10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore...

A New COUNTERPRESS Publication → Nick Piška and Hayley Gibson (eds.) B & W 229 x 152 mm | Perfect Bound on White w/Matte Laminate | 242 pages | Paperback ISBN 978-1-910761-23-6 | E-book (ePDF) ISBN 978-1-910761-24-3 | 10 September 2024 In May 2016 a group of trust...

Shonibare, Yinka; Nelson's Ship in a Bottle; Government Art Collection; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/nelsons-ship-in-a-bottle-253217 The Queen Mary Centre of Law and Society in a Global Context (CLSGC) is thrilled to announce a Masterclass with Professor Philipp Dann...

Applications are now open for the 2024 TALS Academy in Advanced Legal Research and Method. The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars (TALS) is a group of legal scholars experienced in research and supervision and interested in the conduct and method of research...

During the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal theorists had predicted. To the contrary, the fact that economic integration has been profoundly uneven has enabled...

Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South The volume seeks to use the theory of encryption of power (TEP) in a tight connection with the theory of archism to rethink sovereignty in at least the following manners: Do strong,...

Intersections of art, creative practice, copyright, storytelling and technology. December 4th-6th, 2024, University of Technology Sydney, Australia https://artechlaw.org/hacking-visual-culture/ Submissions are being sought for Hacking Visual Culture, a 2-day...

This year sees the launch of two books that exposes the philosophical foundations of the police and how the socio-political idea of the police is crucial to modern world-making. A Philosophical History of Police Power (Bloomsbury) by Melayna Lamb (University of Law)...

Book Series: Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South Book editor: Nicolás Panotto nicolaspanotto@gmail.com Series editors: Ricardo Sanín-Restrepo, Marinella Machado Araujo, Angus McDonald, James Martel...

We are pleased to announce the publication of Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of International Justice, edited by Christine Schwöbel-Patel and Robert Knox. In recent years, growing attention has been paid to the relationship between international law and aesthetics....

The Annual Minority Research Seminar 2024, Many Gazes of Law, is organizing a workshop for doctoral researchers on the 12th of April 2024 at Åbo Akademi University (Turku). The workshop on Methods, Minorities and Law encourages interdisciplinary engagement, enabling...

The 3rd annual conference at the NOMOS Centre for International Research on Law, Culture and Power at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The 2004 enlargement of the European Union has been not only the largest but also the most politically and socially charged...

Wednesday 28th February 2024 Keynote Speaker: Dr Ayça Çubukçu Associate Professor and Co-Director of LSE Human Rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science Warwick Law School invites abstracts for our one-day postgraduate conference on Law v...

Watch recordings of the Decolonise Palestine Teach-In events below: WATCH RECORDING HERE WATCH RECORDING HERE

4-6 November 2024 in Brasília (Brazil) Paper submission deadline: 14 January 2024    Decisions: 14 March 2024  Call available in Spanish, Portuguese, Kiswahili, and French here: https://www.mpipriv.de/decolonial THEME:  Following  workshops ...

Friday the 13th of October, 2023 12:00 – 19:00 Cornwallis George Allen Wing 205/206 University of Kent Organised by José Antonio Magalhães, Alexander Damianos and the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent. The Speculative Legal Theory Network began in...

The first critical legal geography conference brings together transdisciplinary scholars to discuss the mutual constitution of space and law, broadly conceived. The conference in February 2024 (in Turin, Italy) will be the first of a series of annual meetings on...

Recent developments in legal education and practice, including the increasing reliance on technological means to teach law and perform legal tasks, call for a new appraisal of what it means to attain, have, and use legal knowledge. The uncertain future which awaits...

The call for papers for the 2023 Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference – “Deus Ex Machina: Law – Technology – Humanities” – has been extended to Monday 18th September. The due date for applications for HDR bursaries to attend the...

What is this time if not one of endless crossing from one language, time, and place to another? As the next generation of researchers, we are encouraged to transform and transgress disciplines, knowledges, and practices to identify problems and possible solutions; but...

The People 1922 K?the Kollwitz 1867-1945 Presented by Tate Patrons 2019 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P82465 2023 Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Biannual Conference, Human Technology Law Centre, QUT Developments with new technologies in...

Update 9 August 2023: The deadline for registration has been extended to 18 August 2023. The call for papers, registration, and provision draft programme is available here: https://pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham/clc2023 Durham Law School will host the Critical Legal...

From the point of view which takes the prohibitive law to be the founding moment of the narrative, the law both produces sexuality in the form of “dispositions” and appears disingenuously at a later point in time to transform these ostensibly “natural” dispositions...

It is our delight to share the call for papers for the 2023 Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference – “Deus Ex Machina: Law – Technology - Humanities”. This is going to be an excellent event and a wonderful opportunity to gather...

The theory of encryption of power (TEP) proposes a fresh understanding of how the use of language monopolizes and hides power, preventing access to it through the denial and neutralization of differences based on class, race, and gender. TEP unveils that “transcendent...

The Argumentation 2023 conference continues in the project of providing space to alternative forms of thinking about law, helping to facilitate the emergence of minor jurisprudences that escape the usual field of legal orthodoxy (Goodrich 1996, 2). This year's theme...

The Argumentation 2023 conference continues in the project of providing space to alternative forms of thinking about law, helping to facilitate the emergence of minor jurisprudences that escape the usual field of legal orthodoxy (Goodrich 1996, 2). This year's theme...

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...

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...

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...

Contemporary feminist legal scholarship appears to have no history and almost no canonical texts. Unlike other fields in the humanities and social sciences, there has been an absence of interest in questions of feminist inheritance in law; a certain unwillingness to...

The theory of encryption of power proposes a fresh understanding of how the use of language monopolizes and hides power, preventing access to it through the denial and neutralization of differences based on class, race, and gender. It argues that coloniality exists...

One of the most iconic and concrete encounters one can have with international law is to visit its institutional buildings. Whether by eye-catching design or as dilapidated office, buildings make law physical and visible. One can see a building, maybe even touch it....

A Critical Legal Thinking Blog Carnival 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...

Our beloved friend and colleague Ari Hirvonen passed away a year ago tomorrow. This summer includes a string of events that all celebrate his memory and honour his work. The first takes place in Italy. Next week, the international Symposium Phaenomenologicum will...

In December 2015, Dianne Otto convened an Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) workshop at Melbourne Law School focused on 'queering' international law. The workshop would go on to produce the first book focused solely on queer approaches to...

Revolutionary constitution-making in the 18th century U.S. is described as an “outbreak” by Hannah Arendt. This talk looks at the power of contagion in democratic theory, focusing on the idea of democratic contagion and on efforts in political theory and popular...

  Nomos Centre Inaugural Conference, Kraków, 13-14 May 2022. Programme (with Zoom Links) available to download here. We live in troubled times: old forms, albeit waning, still hold sway over our world, but the new forms are still in the dark. The liberal hegemony is...

The International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) will be held from July 16 to 24, 2022 at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Since 2009, the OSI has successfully encouraged and promoted the interdisciplinary study and research...

The Kent Law School Graduate Conference Organising Committee is pleased to announce that the 10th annual KLS Graduate Law Student Conference will take place jointly with the annual Kent Critical Law Student Conference on 9th & 10th June 2022. ...

The Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick invites you to  the 17th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture Human, and Other Rights by Prof. David Palumbo-Liu on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 (5-7pm UK Time) The lecture will be held on...

8th International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law The  International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) will be held from July 16 to 24, 2022 at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Since 2009, the...

An intensive doctoral retreat in Gimo, 8-10 June 2022 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 and, if so, what would...

The Warwick Social Theory Centre and the Centre for Critical Legal Studies are pleased to host Grace Lavery for a reading of her new memoir Please Miss: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis, followed by discussion with Cath Lambert. The event will take place on...

Contemporary feminist legal scholarship appears to have no history and almost no canonical texts. Unlike other fields in the humanities and social sciences, there has been an absence of interest in questions of feminist inheritance in law; a certain unwillingness to...

We are delighted to announce the publication of The Critical Legal Pocketbook. Law creates an ethical and rational facade for itself, but beneath the surface it has its monsters; the leviathan of the state, the golems of racism and misogyny, the hydra of coloniality,...

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...

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,...

TRC Cliff  © 1997 Zapiro. Originally published in Sowetan. Reuse with permission - For more Zapiro cartoons visit www.zapiro.com Seminar Series The Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL) at the University of Amsterdam, and Melbourne Law School’s...

Sat 01–Sun, 30. Aug 2020 Subscribe Here where are you today is a new work by Manus Recording Project Collective, continuing the collective’s practice of documenting, sharing and circulating audio recordings from inside Australia’s on- and off-shore detention centres...

The Direito e Práxis Journal, associated to the Post-Graduate Program in Law at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), invites interested scholars to submit proposals for articles to be published as part of the June 2021 dossier “Critical Legal Studies:...

Available in paperback now from online bookshops and as a 'fair access' E-book from Counterpress Author: Ari Hirvonen Adjunct Professor in Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory at the University of Helsinki B & W 229 x 152 mm | Perfect Bound on White w/Matte Laminate...

We want to introduce a page that will intervene in the way law is being taught around the world. So we are calling for contributions to a new pedagogy page: Critical Legal Teaching. We are particularly interested in short reflections on teaching materials; texts,...