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...
UPDATED WITH ADDITIONS 14/7 at 10:30am BST To understand the Greek crisis and the stream of ever worsening deals between the EU and Greece, it is essential to understand just how involved the EU main players have been in the creation of this situation over the past...
An antidote to anodyne “celebrations” of the Great Charter’s 800th Anniversary, Newcastle Law School is holding a one-day conference to explore how Magna Carta's legacy has been invoked in support of a range of contestable historical and contemporary constitutional...
Justice Giuliano Amato in debate with Professor Christian Joerges. The EU affects the lives of many people in ways they perceive as profoundly unjust. Lives are dramatically affected by the policies of austerity, widely understood to be EU-imposed. With the Court of...
Friday, 5 June 2015 9:30 to 19:00 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD, Room B04 This one-day symposium will take place at Birkbeck, University of London. A limited number of seats are still available. Attendance is free of charge, but registration is necessary. The...
Workshop convenor: Dr Birgit Schippers (St Mary’s University College Belfast). Recent work in political theory, in critical legal theory, and in history has challenged human rights’ purported regulatory, disciplinary and exclusionary effects; further, it has...
Law and culture are two significant forces in human life, both shaping and influencing the conduct of individuals, communities and societies, and the values they develop. The emergence of values and norms, of traditions and beliefs – of laws – is...
Law and Boundaries is an interdisciplinary annual conference that aims to discuss and propose new perspectives on the challenges the legal discipline is facing regarding its object, its function, its theoretical foundations and its practical outcomes. This year the...
We are pleased to announce that Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics, edited by Tara Mulqueen and Daniel Matthews, and published by COUNTERPRESS, is now available. Being Social brings together leading and emerging scholars on the question of sociality in...
The summit, organised by Warwick Law School's Centre of Human Rights in Practice in the wake of police brutality on campus, will be held in the Arts Centre Cinema today, 12 March between 4-6pm. Speakers will include the University Vice Chancellor, Nigel Thrift,...
This conference has now been cancelled on the grounds of 'health and safety'. Read more here → http://freespeechsouthampton.blogspot.co.uk/. You may sign a petition against the cancellation here → http://change.org Conference Dates: 17 —19 April 2015 About the...
Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Department of Literary Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland Date: 5-6 June, 2015 Application deadline: 15 March, 2015 Contemporary debates on copyright and authors' rights,...
The Greece Solidarity Campaign, Syriza London and other organisations are calling for a mass rally in support of the people of Greece on Sunday 15th February at 13.00 in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. This is part of an international wave of...
This roundtable discussion will begin with a screening of a 15 minute film made by Paul Mason: Greece: The End of Austerity? Speakers: — Costas Douzinas (Wiki); — Paul Mason (Channel 4 News) (Wiki); — Slavoj Zizek. Starts: Mar 18, 2015 07:30 PM Finishes: Mar 18, 2015...
This international conference will open at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities (University of London) on Saturday 14th March at 6pm in Room B34: Why Now is the Time for Rights Avrum Burg and Sam Bahour in conversation. The conference will continue on Sunday...
2nd International Workshop on Law and Ideology In his L'histoire comme champ de bataille Enzo Traverso points out that memory as a socially relevant phenomenon appeared widely after 1989. The fall of the Soviet empire and the ensuing defragmentation of the world led...
Ernesto Laclau died in Seville on the 13th April 2014. By a sort of historical irony, the Argentinean political theorist missed by only a few weeks the stunning success of a newborn Spanish political party, PODEMOS, which by consciously drawing on his work, became a...
Politics is either dead, dying, or changing into something new. The word ‘ideology’ has become a term of abuse, associated especially with the ‘utopian’ old left. Commitment and belief have become ‘tribalism’ and ‘dogma’. Technocracy, pragmatism, and single-issue...
*** Management takes student occupation to court *** Two students have been threatened to have to pay for legal costs *** Similar injunctions have previously been condemned by Amnesty International for breaching human rights University management are seeking to...
We are currently witnessing one of the most beautiful and tragic moments of resistance in human history. Please join with us and sign the solidarity statement (link below) alongside educators, artists, philosophers and activists. We have now arrived at the 25th day in...
The Chancellor’s Autumn Statement has served as a reminder of the wider politics of austerity and its beneficiaries in the form of tax cuts and those at its detriment experiencing wage freezes and cuts in services and benefits. It was also a reminder of how the...
The Critical Legal Conference (CLC) – an annual gathering of critical and radical legal scholars from all over the world – was inaugurated in 1984 at the University of Kent. Since then, the CLC has been held every year, mainly in the UK, but also in South Africa,...
In a contemporary discourse suffused with the theme of ‘crisis’ – political, economic, educational, social, ecological, technical – what are the resources of philosophy at this moment for thinking power relations and potentialities? ‘Power’ has long been a central...
Book Symposium: Mark Neocleous's War Power, Police Power (EUP, 2013) will be discussed by Claudia Aradau, Illan Rua Wall, Caroline Holmqvist, and Yari Lanci, with a response by Mark Neocleous. LSE, Thai Theatre, Nov 22 6-8pm. From waste to drones and no-fly zones. Why...
Marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of Bernard Stiegler’s landmark book, La Technique et le temps 1, which first outlined the project of a general organology, this conference aims to survey the range of twentieth-century and contemporary philosophical...
Intercultural Talks in the Global South: Decolonization, Law and Politics in Debate in debate intends to be a space to encourage the academic community and public in general to discuss specific problems of the global South, especially in Africa and Latin America, from...
Melbourne Law School will host the seventh annual Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory on 1–2 December 2014. The Forum brings together research students from all academic disciplines to engage with social, political, theoretical, and methodological issues raised...
Birkbeck Law School will be welcoming Professor Eduardo Mendieta for a two-day Seminar on the 11th and 12th of September. Professor Eduardo Mendieta is a Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. Born in Colombia, Professor Mendieta has become one of the...
Human trafficking, human smuggling, and illicit migration are some of the most politically volatile and pressing issues in the present day. They are also the subject of a growing amount of sociological, criminological, and historical research. This combined conference...
The tide of neoliberalism lies at the heart of the modus operandi of Western societies. Its first wave pushed an agenda of deregulation. The second wave started a reflexive process of re-regulation. Standards, codes of conduct, recommendations and other soft legal...
For anyone in the vicinity, this looks like a brilliant event: The organisers tell us that registration for the event is important. Registration is free and can be done by emailing gtcentre@unsw.edu.au with the subject line ‘Neoliberalism Symposium’. They say: Please...
International conference organised by Hyo Yoon Kang (Lucerne) & Jose Bellido (Kent) at University of Lucerne, 12-13 June 2014. Practices of commodification of scientific and cultural knowledges by intellectual property have been widely analysed from the...
This year marks the tenth anniversary of Jacques Derrida’s death. From the earliest days of Critical Legal Studies to contemporary scholarship, Derrida’s thought has provided a rich resource for critical engagements with the law. From his provocative assertion that...
What is the significance of ‘post’ in post-disaster, post-conflict and post-crisis, and how might we analyze the similarities in the governmental responses to economic, infrastructural and societal disruption? We contend that, despite disciplinary boundaries which...
20 June 2014 10am–5:30pm SOAS (University of London) College Buildings, Room 116 This symposium invites reconsideration of contemporary questions of the measure and of the measures of law and the forms of life that can be lived through law. It addresses the timeliness...