Human rights and equality appear as ideals appealing to most if not all people across the globe. However, the way people understand and experience these ideals can vary significantly since even the most conservative politicians or activists use these ideals in some...
Although a common topic in colonial historiography, the influence of large-scale labor on the creation of built environments—including the design, construction, and maintenance of infrastructure, buildings and landscapes—has not been fully explored in the context of...
The Argumentation 2025 conference continues the project of creating space for alternative perspectives on law, fostering the emergence of critical jurisprudences that challenge legal orthodoxy. This year’s theme is Games of Law, an invitation to explore...
Poster (PSC Colloquium)Download We are delighted to invite you to Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence Colloquium on States of Exception, (link) taking place on Friday, 4 April 2025, at 10:00 AM at Roeterseiland Campus, Amsterdam Law School (Room...
You are warmly invited to join us for an interdisciplinary roundtable, ‘Continuities of Liberalism and Fascism: Rights ‘After Liberalism’, featuring four exciting speakers as well as artistic, activist and academic perspectives. This is a facilitated conversation...
Life in contemporary cities unfolds as a constant negotiation around problems of value. From the daily improvisation of urban dwellers to the financial flows driving planetary urbanisation, nearly every facet of urban existence can be said to depend, implicitly or...
After the success of our first year, the Centre for Law & Social Change is excited to launch the second edition at SOAS on May 8 – 10, 2025. This three-day focused workshop aimed at Marxist scholar-activists will challenge you to reflect on and...
Dear Reader, The Queer Judgments Project is an initiative that evolved from disparate conversations between the current co-editors about how legal judgments related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics could have been written...
Following the theme, Surf ‘n’ Turf: Critical Laws of the Land and Sea, the Critical Legal Conference (CLC) 2025 at the University of Exeter offers an opportunity to interrogate the dynamic interplay between land and sea within the context of critical legal thought....
University of Derby, April 24th to April 25th, 2025; The MCCT is an annual interdisciplinary conference that provides a forum for emergent critical scholarship, broadly construed. The conference is free for all to attend and follows a non-hierarchical model that seeks...
In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios Christodoulidis, reads one of his – and our – favourite thinkers, Simone Weil, and says of her ‘precious...
IALS is pleased to announce the establishment of the Law and the Humanities Hub (LHub), a dynamic initiative led by Professor Anat Rosenberg, who has recently joined the institute. LHub aims to foster academic expertise, creativity, and intellectual leadership in law...
Earlier this year, the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context and the International State Crime Initiative, based in the School of Law, partnered with Birzeit University’s Institute of Law in Palestine. The partnership was inaugurated on 28 November with an...
In recent years, the relationship between intellectual property and capitalism has received growing interest from different disciplines, particularly economic history, law, sociology, politics, and science and technology studies. This workshop aims to bring together...
Macedonian, a native language in Northern Greece was banned, and persecuted by the Greek state, yet kept it’s memory in songs “without words.” In order to be able to celebrate and play music in fairs, local musicians stopped singing, and instead focused on solely...
CCT Annual Lecture 2024_poster_updateDownload The Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent is pleased to announce its Annual Lecture, to be held on Tuesday 26 November at 6pm. This event is open to all and no registration is required. Professor Costas...
‘The State of Tuvalu (…) shall remain in perpetuity in the future, notwithstanding the impacts of climate change (…) resulting in loss to the physical territory of Tuvalu.’ (2023 constitution of Tuvalu) Tuvalu’s constitutional commitment to Sovereignty in the face of...
Guest edited by Carys Hughes (University of East London, U.K.) and Ben Manski (George Mason University, U.S.). This Special Collection will advance an emergent field of scholarly research, which is coalescing around the concept of “revolutionary constitutionalism”,...
SAI: Social Theory Symposium: UCC, Cork, April 25-26th 2025 Pluralism, fragmentation and relativism are well established features of modernity. Arguably, the rise of social media, culture wars and a segmented public sphere in recent years have exacerbated these...
The Birkbeck Centre for Law and the Humanities invites you to a book launch and discussion with Serene Richards, Biopolitics as a System of Thought (Bloomsbury, 2024), and Ian Alan Paul, The Reticular Society (PM Press, 2025). How is social life organised under...
London Review of International Law is looking to appoint a new Assistant Editor. The ideal candidate will be a doctoral student, working in the field of critical approaches to international law, with a strong sense of what makes the LRIL unique. Your...
After the fantastic success of the 39th Critical Legal Conference in Lund. The CLC decision has been made to host the 40th conference in Exeter next year. More details to follow.
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...
We live under orders of speculation, where both financial capital and nation-state modes of accounting, or not accounting for, lives and ways of living perpetuate how we come to understand and act in the world. At the same time, such orders of speculation invites the...
Tim Christiaens In the early 2010s, many people on the left proclaimed the death of state-based socialism, the political party, and any kind of organizational authority. From Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring, the 2011 revolts put their faith in horizontalist...
Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia Conference 2024 The University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law | 香港大學法律學院 16-18 December (Conference) | 15 December (PhD Day) CALL FOR PAPERS – SUBMIT BY 15 JULY This Conference is an...
Henrique Carvalho & Anastasia Chamberlen "Cage Head" by SanguineSeas The philosophy of punishment finds itself at a crossroads. On the one hand, it remains a very prolific and popular field of study, with countless works being regularly produced and revisited. On...
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,...
Once Upon a Time in Australia explores the intersections between gender, colonisation, and climate change and how they are necessarily interconnected in any transformative movement for justice. The novel challenges ideas about voice and...
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...
DATE: September 16 - September 18 2024 We live under orders of speculation, where both financial capital and nation-state modes of accounting, or not accounting for, lives and ways of living perpetuate how we come to understand and act in the world. At the same...
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...
In the past years, scholars working in the field of Law and Literature have focused on the role of affect in shaping our sense of law and justice. Although law is supposedly the domain of Reason, that is deprived of any emotions, scholars have brought to the fore both...
Centre for Policy, Citizenship and Society + Department of Social and Political Sciences, Nottingham Trent University April 5th to April 6th, 2024 Call for Stream Proposals – new extended deadline September 25th 2023 The Call for Stream Proposals is now open for the...
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...
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...
About this event Register here About the project Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg: a revolutionary theorist and political activist, whose work has provided important political economy critiques of imperialism, capitalism,...
By: David Vásquez Hurtado, Carlos Mejía Suarez and Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo On April 28th, 2021, major protests began in Colombia. Demonstrators occupied public spaces deploying multiple strategies to that their voices reached all sectors of society....
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...
Law, Text and Contrapuntal Reading The 15th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory (DFLT-15) will take place on 24 and 25 November 2022. The DFLT-15 is an annual interdisciplinary workshop hosted by graduate researchers. The Forum brings together graduate...
“Val has left us”, her partner Uwe Peterson wrote recently in an email to a few of us who had known her for a while. Valerie Kerruish was a Tutor, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at the University of Western Australia from 1965-1992, and an Associate Professor at...
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...
Critical Legal Conference 2022: Liminalities 31 August – 02 September Faculty of Law, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø Conference website here. The call for papers is now open! Please submit your paper responding to the call of each individual stream...
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...
By NOMOS: CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH ON LAW, CULTURE AND POWER On February 24, 2022, Russia has begun waging war on Ukraine. Fighting is taking place all over Ukraine, civilians are being killed or forced to flee their homes. In just seven days about 800.000...
THE PROLETARIAT RELOADED: BADIOU BEYOND MARXISM AND ANARCHISM Jon Mazzalini https://counterpress.org.uk/publications/the-proletariat-reloaded This book is an important and original attempt to overcome the opposition between Marxism and anarchism, a rift that opened up...
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,...
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’...
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,...
Frankenlaw: Community, Division, Modernity Critical Legal Conference 2021 University of Dundee, 2-4 September I lived principally in the country as a girl, and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque parts; but my...
Dr Robert Herian of The Open University Law School, in conjunction with the Equity and Trusts Research Network (ETRN) and the Law, Information, Future, Technology (LIFT) research group, invites you to join us online from 1pm (GMT) on 8th April 2021 for an exciting and...
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...
Welcome to the online book launch seminar of Constituent Power: Law, Popular Rule and Politics (EUP 2020), co-edited by Matilda Arvidsson (Gothenburg), Leila Brännström (Lund) and Panu Minkkinen (Helsinki). Recent social and political developments, including the...
Towards Decolonising the University: A Kaleidoscope for Empowered Action launches online at 2pm on Thursday 1 October Register Here A book by DecoloniseUoK, a collective of Kent students and academics campaigning for cultural democracy, will be launched online on...
The Open University Law School PhD studentships are based on full-time study for three years at the Milton Keynes campus. Students are normally expected to live within commuting distance of Milton Keynes. Studentships cover tuition fees, a generous research training...