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...

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...

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...

Solidarity beyond borders – Building democracy from below The programs of austerity and privatizations imposed by the Troika decide on the lives of millions of people in Europe. Together with people in Europe and the whole world we resist the rehabilitation of...

We are pleased to invite the submission of abstracts for the first Law, Social Justice and Global Development colloquium ‘An Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Social Justice,’ hosted by the Global Research Priority Programme on International Development at the University...

Feminist Legal Studies celebrated its 20 year anniversary in 2013.  After two decades of operating successfully from Kent Law School, 2013 also marked the debut of a newly constituted editorial board made up of members from other UK universities. The editorial board...

We are delighted to announce four travel and accommodation bursaries to support the attendance of PhD students or financially insecure post-docs at the Authority & Political Technologies 2014: Power in a World of Becoming, Entanglement & Attachment (University...

The conference seeks to create a cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue between students coming from European and foreign universities. The project was initially driven by the feeling that legal scholarship has remained largely silent in the aftermath of the...

Recently, there have been various calls for a move beyond ‘post-structuralism’ (i.e. Foucault, Deleuze, cultural/critical theory), which had long been seen as the radical edge of the critical social sciences. Such calls are motivated in part by the sense that...

27–28 June 2014, Goldsmiths, University of London. CFP deadline: 10 March 2014. LCCT 2014 Call for papers (pdf) The third annual London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) will offer a space for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for scholars who work with...

LUCAS (the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society) will host a three-day conference on the various ways in which literary and artistic texts have represented, interrogated or challenged juridical notions of ‘personhood’. The conference will take place from...

The Migration and Law Network aims to promote migration law as a subject in United Kingdom universities, including through occasional conferences and seminars. The overall theme of our 2014 conference is the fluidity of migration law, in the face of its own...

The London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) is an annual event that offers a space for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for scholars who work with critical traditions and concerns. In particular it aims to provide opportunities for those who frequently find...

The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The twelve first volumes are...

The 6th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory will be held at the Melbourne Law School, 9-10 December 2013. This year the forum addresses contamination. It will again bring together research students and early career researchers from all disciplines and diverse...

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Conference Dates: Saturday 26th – 27th April 2014 Deadline for abstracts: 30th November 2013 Venue: Shire Hall, Nottingham Can we imagine law without the state? Could what we now call ‘crime’ be dealt with by means other than criminal law and punishment? This...

1. Friday 5th July  1pm – 3pm  Room B33 Main Building, Birkbeck, University of London. Speakers: Etienne Balibar, Drucilla Cornell , Costas Douzinas Free and open to all. No registration, just come along. 2. Friday 12th July  2pm – 4pm Room B33 Main Building,...

Against a background of profound changes in higher education policy, and in the year in which the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) will report its findings to its sponsoring regulators in May 2013, the School of Law at Birkbeck places legal education on...

In keeping with our exploration of philosophy’s outsides, this year’s CRMEP graduate conference will focus on the coupling ‘Materiality’ and ‘Immateriality’. Historically, philosophy has often been characterised as a distancing from the material domain of sensible...

In his recent work, Guy Standing has identified a new class which has emerged from neo-liberal restructuring with, he argues, the revolutionary potential to change the world: the precariat. This is ‘a class-in-the-making, internally divided into angry and bitter...

The conventional wisdom is that corporations should aim to maximise shareholder value. Following the financial crisis, has this idea failed? Do we need to generate new ways of thinking about the ultimate purpose of the corporation? Speaker(s) Moderator: Joris...

What is Law’s relationship to senses? In a sense, Law, the anaesthetic par excellence, is constantly engaged in numbing the senses into commonsense; manipulating, channelling and controlling the sensible; inserting properties and forbidding contacts; dissimulating...

The open-access, interdisciplinary academic journal, the Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, have just released a new special issue on the theme of 'Democracy and Law'. The issue centres on the relationship between legal and political regimes, most of the...

The London Review of International Law writes to encourage submissions. The review is a new journal to be published by Oxford University Press in 2013. In addition to scholarly articles, they are seeking review essays and writings in non-traditional formats of...

When: Wednesday, March 20th, 2013 Where: Queen Mary Charterhouse Campus, Sir Anthony Dawson Room, ground floor, Dawson Hall. Time: 10am – 5pm Sponsored by: Legal Theory and Legal History Research Group, Queen Mary School of Law, and the Centre for Ethics and Politics,...

A Masters Student Symposium  Organised by the Student Salon of the Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law (CCEIL) at SOAS, University of London, 16 March 2013  The purpose of this symposium is to assess critically the role of law as a...

It is 24 years since Queen’s University Belfast last hosted the Critical Legal Conference. In that time, Northern Ireland has undergone significant political and social change spurred on by a difficult (and ongoing) process of, and yet steadfast commitment to,...

Law and Boundaries is an interdisciplinary yearly 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. The focus of...

Starts: 24 January 2013 06:00 PM Finishes: 24 January 2013 08:00 PM Venue: The Swedenborg Hall, 20–21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH Booking details: Free entry; registration required: register here On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Birkbeck Law School,...

Palestinians in Solidarity with Idle No More Indigenous people have risen up across Canada in the Idle No More movement, a mass call for Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination and rights, against colonization, racism, injustice, and oppression. As Palestinians,...

The 2013 London Critical Theory Summer School will take place at Birkbeck, University of London, from 1– 12 July 2013. This unique opportunity is for graduate students and academics to follow a course of study and to foster exchange and debate. It will consist of at...

As part of the Writing Wrongs Project, Ed Vulliamy and Ian Cobain (award winning investigative journalists from the Guardian) and Andrew Williams (Warwick Centre for Human Rights in Practice) will be discussing the topic of 'Angry Writing'. The discussion will be...

In the UK there is a current blockade of the Crossrail works at Tottenham Court Rd by Occupy London, while solidarity protests are planned in Smith Sq.,London at 5pm, and outside St.Giles Cathedral on Edinburgh's Royal Mile at 6pm. In Germany while unions have not...

The purpose of this one day Symposium on Crime Fiction and the Law is to develop an interdisciplinary and public-facing research and teaching focus on the relationship between crime fiction and the law.  This focus is broad-based and includes issues such as: the...

The Oecumene project team is delighted to announce that our Second Symposium: Deorientalizing citizenship? will take place on 12-13 November 2012 at the Goodenough College in London. The symposium is organised by the Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism research...

Over the past several decades, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s work has attracted a growing amount of interest spanning a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences, including philosophy, literary theory, political philosophy, migration...

SPACE host a lecture by Levi R. Bryant on the 5th of July at 6.30pm: Bryant is a leading thinker in the emerging fields of Object Oriented Ontology and Speculative Realism. The talk  suggestes that nature must be denatured, but without abandoning nature. Rather than...

We would like to invite you to the launch of New Critical Legal Thinking. It will take place at 6pm in the Clore Management Building, Birkbeck, University of London, on Saturday the 30th of June, during the London Conference in Critical Theory. New Critical Legal...

Occupy Research Collective Convergence (ORCC): Activism & Research Ethics 10:00-17:00 Saturday June 30th – Pearson Building, University College London, Bloomsbury, London, WC1E 6BT (enter from Gower Street). See here for directions. Are you researching Occupy or...

‘Neoliberalism solves its problems by moving them around geopolitically’ David Harvey (2005). This stream aims to create a space for dialogue about the issues that are pertinent to current geopolitical, neoliberal and socio-economic issues. We invite papers from all...

VI International Meeting of Researchers in Immigration and Asylum Law will take place from 14th to 15th June at the University of Valencia, tackling the initiative of several researchers and lecturers who have focused on the study and the critical analysis of legal...

We take up the conference theme in earnest, looking at gardens as the place of questioning. We invite you to walk through, dwell in, or simply look at gardens and to share your path. Gardens are yearned for and yet, the place in which this yearning emerges remains...

Monday June 18, 14.00 – 20.15 Aula, University Main Building, Ludwigstraße 23, Giessen Democracy in Crisis? Democratic Alienation Austerity Politics and Sacrificial Citizenship Wendy Brown (University of California Berkeley) The Politics of Speed and the Loss of...

Given the profound reverberations contemporary economic crises have had in established democracies, a new phase of post-democracy appears to have emerged, severely constraining processes of autonomous decision-making and traditional modes of contestation. At the same...

This event, at Birkbeck College, University of London, will take a critical and literary approach to questions of International Law. A theatre piece (Maria read by Yoriko Otomo and To Mourn, With No Words to Keep performed by Anastasia Tataryn) Peter Fitzpatrick Being...

Justice, Critical Theory, Post-conflict and Internationalism March 23rd Sciences-Po Paris March 24th 2012 Paris 1 University Reflection on law appears today to be one of the most productive themes of philosophy. The borders between law, morality, and politics are...

Returning the Past: Public Intimacy in Argentina’s Courts and Spaces of Memory. This paper discusses the mega-causa (trial) of those repressors involved in the capture, torture and murder of thousands at ESMA, Argentina’s most notorious detention centre, in terms of...

An interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate and early-career academics in the area of law, gender and sexuality. Friday 30 March 2012. School of Law, University of Westminster, London, UK. Law mediates various power structures and is interwoven with numerous...

You are warmly invited to the first Kings College, London, Law and Political Thought seminar of the next term, which will take place at 5.30pm on Thursday 19 January in the new year. Dr Illan Rua Wall (Oxford Brookes) will be giving a paper entitled "Unworking...