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Institutional Vandalism: The University & Covid-19

Institutional Vandalism: The University & Covid-19

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...

Law & Humanities Summer School

Law & Humanities Summer School

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 –...

CfStreams: Critical Legal Conference 2020

CfStreams: Critical Legal Conference 2020

 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...

Marginalisation of Expertise & Media Bias

Marginalisation of Expertise & Media Bias

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...

Liverpool Law Externals Resign over Management Threats

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...

CfP: Critical Legal Teaching

CfP: Critical Legal Teaching

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,...

WTF Labour Law: Summer Camp

WTF Labour Law: Summer Camp

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...

CfP: What is Real about Law and Technology

CfP: What is Real about Law and Technology

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...

Critical Legal Conference 2019: Alienation

Critical Legal Conference 2019: Alienation

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:...

Rethinking the University

Rethinking the University

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....

UCU Strike Action – Open Letter

UCU Strike Action – Open Letter

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...

Editorial: Labour’s Insurgent Electoral Campaign

Editorial: Labour’s Insurgent Electoral Campaign

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: Foreword by Parvathi Raman

Spatial Justice and Diaspora: Foreword by Parvathi Raman

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...

Boycott the National Student Survey

Boycott the National Student Survey

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...

Three Brexit lessons from our work at Kent Law School.

Three Brexit lessons from our work at Kent Law School.

  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...

Call for Contributions: Key Concepts

Call for Contributions: Key Concepts

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...

A Tangled Web: The Vested Interests of the EU Right

A Tangled Web: The Vested Interests of the EU Right

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...

Is there an EU Justice Deficit?

Is there an EU Justice Deficit?

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...

Law and Culture Conference 2015: Change

Law and Culture Conference 2015: Change

  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...

Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics

Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics

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...

Today (12/3) Warwick Summit on Protest

Today (12/3) Warwick Summit on Protest

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,...

Warwick occupation served with injunction

Warwick occupation served with injunction

*** 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...

The Hunger Strike of Nikos Romanos

The Hunger Strike of Nikos Romanos

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 Further Criminalisation of Student Protest

The Further Criminalisation of Student Protest

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...

Timely Measures, Symposium SOAS 20 June 2014

Timely Measures, Symposium SOAS 20 June 2014

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...