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...
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...
Workshop for Young Researchers 28./29. January 2021 hosted by Walter Benjamin Archive, Berlin Leibniz-Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin and the International Walter Benjamin Society The contemporary political and legal landscape presents us with an...
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:...
The Guardian’s 29 May article (‘Soas to slash budgets and staff as debt crisis worsens in a pandemic’) has brought attention to a worrying development, which risks seeing losses of livelihoods and expertise at a unique and world-renowned institution. The danger is...
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...
The Law and Humanities Summer School is an intensive one-week study programme, to be held at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland, from 15 to 19 June 2020. The school is co-organised by the following partners: Institute for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies –...
FRANKENLAW COMMUNITY DIVISION MODERNITY Critical Legal Conference 2020 University of Dundee 3-5 September Call for Streams I lived principally in the country as a girl, and passed a considerable time in Scotland. I made occasional visits to the more picturesque...
We write as members of the UK academic community. We are deeply concerned by the marginalisation of expertise in the media coverage of the general election. In particular we would like to highlight the lack of attention paid to recent analyses by economists and...
Coloquio Internacional «Prácticas Constituyentes: Constituciones, imaginarios políticos y formas democráticas de vida» Núcleo de Teoría Social UDP, junto con el Janey Program in Latin American Studies de la The New School for Social Research y el Centro de...
External examiners for Liverpool Law School today resigned en masse over Liverpool University management's threats to students. With the authors' permission we reproduce the letter below. Solidarity with everyone striking this week! We, the undersigned, have...
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,...
We are very excited to announce that the Call for participation in the WTFLabourLaw Summer Camp 2020 is out. The Camp will be held from 3 to 7 July 2020 at the ExFadda – www.exfadda.it – in San Vito dei Normanni (BR), Puglia, Italy. After our first Camp in 2018, we...
Centre for Law and the Humanities School of Law Birkbeck Friday, 15th November, 2019, – 6-9 pm. Room TBC SPEAKERS Marinos Diamantides (Birkbeck Law School) Nanna Bonde Thylstrup (Copenhagen Business School) Eva Nanopoulos (School of Law, Queen Mary) Maria...
11-12 OCTOBER 2019 Call for Contributions Looming ecological disaster; the rise of nationalist authoritarianism; the stubborn persistence of systematic oppression based on race, gender, sexuality and other axes of social difference, the dismantling of any semblance of...
In 2018 both Bruno Latour and Giorgio Agamben published books addressing the epistemological crisis. Climate skepticism, false news and social media echo chambers have led to a profound, divisive and ugly politicisation of knowledge in the West. Latour and Agamben...
Over the last decade we have seen protests and revolts that have resonated globally: from Tahrir Square and Gezi Park to the Indignants in Greece and Spain, to the Gilet Jaunes or Occupy Wall Street or the Umbrella Movement. One of the key elements of these events has...
STOP PRESS: LINK TO CLC2019 HERE The University of Perugia would like to invite streams and papers for the 2019 Critical Legal Conference. The event will take place between 12–14 September 2019. The deadline for submission of abstracts is the 15th of July. Theme:...
24th – 25th of April 2019 16:00-21:00 Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México – ITAM Departamento de Derecho (Law School) Content Up until now, the "theory of the encryption of power" has been treated as a theory proper to political philosophy and specifically as...
For the academic year beginning 1 October 2019 the Open University Law School is inviting applications for a number of full-time funded PhD studentships. The studentships are based at the Milton Keynes campus and students are normally expected to live within...
Kent Law School announces its annual Kent Summer School in Critical Theory (KSSCT), running again this year in Paris, from 1 to 12 July. The KSSCT offers early career and doctoral researchers from all disciplines the opportunity to participate in a single two-week...
Kent Critical Law Society Annual Conference 2019 Saturday 16th March Grimmond, University of Kent “Division, Difference and Democracy” Call for Papers Kent Critical Law Society (KCLS) is a student law organization, which promotes the aims of critical legal studies...
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities Workshop LAW AND POLITICS IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: METHODS, ORIENTATIONS AND ENCOUNTERS 10th DECEMBER 2018 ROOM 101, 30 RUSSELL SQUARE Book Online Here Many now claim that we have entered a new climatic regime (the Anthropocene) that...
The Westminster Law and Theory Lab invites you to the book launch and drinks reception for Riccardo Baldissone's new book, 'Farewell to freedom: A Western genealogy of liberty', published open access by University of Westminster Press. Download free here. Date, Time,...
Thursday 31 January and Friday 1 February 2019 Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales This workshop aims to consider the different ways in which the language and frameworks of human rights have been deployed and mobilized both to make redistribute justice...
The Graduate Institute, Geneva Department of International Law Auditorium Jacques-Freymond, 132, Rue de Lausanne (Map) 7-8 September 2018 Friday 7 September, 14:30-17:30 14:30-14:50 14:50-15:00 Registration and coffee Welcoming remarks...
The 11th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory will take place on 4 and 5 December 2018. The Forum brings together graduate researchers and early career scholars from a range of disciplines and backgrounds to think methodologically, theoretically and critically...
Counterpress are pleased to announce the publication of Rethinking the University: Structure, Critique, Vocation by Soo Tian Lee. Dr Lee answers questions about his book. You use the theoretical framework of Kojin Karatani as inspiration for Rethinking the University....
WTFLabourLaw (Working on The Future of Labour Law) 1st Progressive Labour Law Scholars Summer Camp 29 August – 2 September 2018 @ ExFadda, San Vito dei Normanni (BR), Puglia, Italy CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The Call The Labour Paradigm announces this Call for...
REGENERATION 6th _ 8th September, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Call for Papers Conference theme I always thought eternity would look like Milton Keynes. JG Ballard Drawing inspiration from the visions, strategies and conflicts that engendered the creation of...
Over the last half century, discourses and practices connected to the idea that violent or dictatorial pasts should be marked as criminal have proliferated. A variety of actors – from victims groups to social movements, to expert groups such as lawyers, museums...
Sat 28 April 2018: 10:00 – 17:30 BST Room 153, Birkbeck, University Of London, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom Register Here Latin American critical legal theory still remains as the most creative and interesting scholarship for many different...
The Centre for the Study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law at SOAS University of London and Durham Law School’s Law and Global Justice research centre are delighted to launch the Postgraduate Colloquium in Critical International Law to be held at SOAS in...
Searching for Critical Environmental Law: Theories, Methods, Critiques Call for Papers, Workshop, May 11, 2018 in Oxford Co-organized by Andreas Kotsakis, Oxford Brookes University & Vito De Lucia, UiT Arctic University of Norway The field of critical...
We the undersigned, Call on the UCU national leadership to reconsider its position reached in ACAS negotiations with UUK on the 12th March 2018. The current agreement kicks a serious solution to the pension dispute in the long grass, committing to a three year process...
Applications are now open for fully funded studentships at The Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong (HKU). The Faculty is consistently ranked as one of the top 20 law schools worldwide. Each year 10-12 students are admitted to PhD, SJD and MPhil programmes....
Date: 15 June 2018 Location: SOAS University of London This is a call for proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary conference which aims to explore the debates that led to the reform of age of consent laws around the British Empire during the years 1880 to 1930. The...
Ghetti, Pablo. Constitutional Exposure: A Postulation for Democracy to Come.Oxford: Counterpress, 2017. | B & W 229 x 152 mm | Perfect Bound on White w/Matte Laminate | 226 pages | Paperback ISBN 978-1-910761-04-5 | E-book (PDF) ISBN N/A | 28 August 2017 Now...
International Conference 9-11 November 2017, Brussels Within the framework of the Jean Monnet Project I Work Therefore I am (European) Speakers and participants Emiliano Acosta (Vrije University of Bruxelles), Tiziana Andina (University of Torino), Gabriele Bischoff...
Whatever happens in today's election in the UK, Corbyn's campaign has been a success. Not in generations has there been an insurgent electoral campaign from the Labour party. By this we mean a campaign that faced down almost universal media antipathy (even hatred) but...
Spatial Justice and Diaspora, edited by Emma Patchett and Sarah Keenan, has just been published by Counterpress. We are pleased to republish the following foreword by Parvathi Raman, Chair of the Centre for Migration and Diaspora Studies, SOAS. When Emma Patchett and...
We are facing a truly pivotal moment in higher education. This government is set to usher in the full marketisation of the sector, with a wave of reforms which represent the most drastic shake-up in decades. Under the new proposals, market-oriented metrics will be...
It is with excitement that we are announcing the launch of the conference “International Law & the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism” that will be held between the 31stof March and the 2nd of April 2017 at University College Cork, a...
The Synesthesia of Law conference, a collaboration between Princeton University and Sciences Po Law School, will take place from Sept 29 to Oct 1 at Princeton. We understand the term synaesthesia as a crossing of boundaries, a sensual saturnalia and mixture of...
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Special issue of Computational Culture, a Journal of Software Studies Edited by Simon Yuill Online version of this call: http://computationalculture.net/cfps-events There is a long-standing relationship between the development of modern computing...
We are some of the staff who work at Kent Law School, one of the UK’s leading critical law schools. We value working in a place where people disagree with each other, where diverse colleagues, often from different schools of thought and political convictions, feel a...
Date: 20 June Time: 5PM Location: A130, College Building, City University London Series: On Global Law, Justice and Regulation Series The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Agreement (TTIP) is understood as one of the most controversial trade deals of all time. The...
Img: vhm-cain / Src The idea behind CLT's Key Concepts page is to provide an overview of the specialized vocabulary / terms of art used by many of the contributors to CLT, and which will be helpful to non-specialist readers as we well as researchers within the...
In 1986, people were wearing shoulder pads, watching Neighbours, and listening to Bananarama. Spain and Portugal had just joined the EEC (there was no EU), the London Stock Market had its big bang (massive deregulation), computers looked like the one below,...
This transdisciplinary symposium explores how ethics can figure eminently in the generation of art and images after modernism and postmodernism, starting from the premise that in the Anthropocene, the work cannot rest upon its separation from the world. The symposium...
Turning Points “…there are no witnesses to changes of epoch. The epochal turning is an imperceptible frontier, bound to no crucial date or event.” The present is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Are we living at a decisive turning point for global and European...
A ONE-DAY WORKSHOP Friday June 24, 2016 10am to 5pm at SOAS, University of London (Room B111) Workshop conveners: Dr. Brenna Bhandar (School of Law, SOAS) and Dr. Rafeef Ziadah (Politics and International Relations, SOAS) You are invited to a one-day workshop with...
Centre for Law and Culture St Mary’s University, Twickenham 5th–6th September 2016 Law and Culture Conference 2016 ‘(In)visibility’ Call for papers What does it mean to be seen? What does it mean to see? What can and cannot, should and should not, be visible? What are...
2-day conference: 20 May 2016: 9.00am – 5.30pm & 21 May 2016: 10.00am – 6.30pm Sponsors: Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, Birkbeck School of Law, BIMI & Serpentine Galleries Organised by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Kojo Koram Journeys from the Caribbean...
What (who) is sensing? Do senses belong to the realm of the subjective and thus non sunt disputandum? Or are they objective, as the truth-validating paradigm of vision indicates? Can we touch without being touched? What remains of the subject/object dualism when we...
Supported by Social & Legal Studies University of Kent, Canterbury From 3.00 pm 19 May - 4 pm 20 May 2016 Registration Free to attend; please send an email indicating you wish to attend to KLSResearch@kent.ac.uk stating the name of the workshop and giving your...
The Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong, 8-10 December 2016 The LLH Association of Australasia invites researchers working at the intersection of law and the humanities to Hong Kong in 2016 to explore the complex relations between law, theory, culture and...
Call for Abstracts – Deadline: March 15, 2016 Conference, New Europe College, Bucharest, 3-4 June, 2016 Migration and cosmopolitanism are consubstantial. Cosmopolitanism means to be a citizen of the world, with no borders or, at least, with permeable borders....
In recent decades many of the foundational classificatory structures of law have been challenged by entities that are familiar to law but who appear in new functions. While robots are revolutionising trade and warfare, animals, embryos and corporations are knocking...
The Kent Law School’s Centre for Critical Thought have announced their second Kent Summer School in Critical Theory. It will run in Paris, from the 13–24 June 2016. The website has all of the relevant details, but the lineup looks fantastic. This summer school is...
Kent Law School 1st – 3rd September Turning Points The Call for Stream Proposals is OPEN NOW – please send proposals of no more than 500 words along with short bios of the stream organisers to klsclc2016@kent.ac.uk. The Call for Stream Proposals closes 7 March 2016....
Within the framework of the European Academy of Legal Theory hosted by the Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, this is an open invitation to an introductory seminar on critical legal theory. Critique of Law and Law of Critique Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main,...
Call for Submissions The Birkbeck Law Review is pleased to announce a call for submissions for the first issue of its fourth volume, to be released in April 2016. The Editorial Board invites submissions from all areas of law. As part of the selection process, priority...
ISHTIP / International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property 8th Annual Workshop July 6–8, 2016 ‘Intellectual Property and Resistance’ CALL FOR PAPERS In 2016, ISHTIP comes to Scotland, the home of booksellers such as Alexander Donaldson who...
C4P-Inequality-and-Human-Rights Call for Papers The Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law invites submissions for an interdisciplinary conference on the theme “Inequality and Human Rights,” to...
On any given day, stories of protest dominate world and national news. Tahrir Square in Cairo; barricades in Kiev; a red shirt protestor shot on the streets of Bangkok; anti-fracking gatherings across the UK: protest could define the current age if it wasn’t for the...