Bruce Curtis, Justin Paulson, John Manwaring, Stacy Douglas, and Jennifer Henderson farewell, alan Alan Hunt, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Sociology, chose a medically-assisted death, with Rosalind Allchin, his partner of 42 years, by his side, on 8 December...
alan hunt Alan Hunt passed away on Wednesday 8 December 2021. He was at home with his partner Ros in Ottawa, Canada. Many had complicated relations with Alan, but he was no doubt a towering figure in the Department of Law and Legal Studies and at Carleton, as well as...
We continue our series on contemporary critical (legal) books with a series of responses to Scott Veitch's, Obligations: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2021). We will post four responses to Scott's new work, each picking distinct themes which together testify to...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/l1CtIlRxUxE Teaming up with the Warwick Centre for Critical Legal Studies, we are thrilled to announce a series of short seminars (please subscribe here) from brilliant critical scholars from around the world. These seminars began because...
Position in the “Transnational Regulation of the Economy” The Department of Law and Legal Studies, Faculty of Public Affairs, Carleton University invites applications for a tenure track appointment in Legal Studies at the rank of Assistant Professor commencing July...
This is an exerpt; Full text available at Canadian Dimension ... In response [to the summer's riots], many observers tried to comment on the situation, drawing out grand theories of the political, social, and economic context behind the events. Some blamed social...
In his book The Idea of Public Law Martin Loughlin outlines three ‘orders of the political’ that underpin and orient public law. The first order begins with Carl Schmitt’s famous formulation of the distinction between friend and enemy. Loughlin contends that it is...
This recording documents an event that was hosted by Communities of Resistance (CoRe) on Wednesday 4 May 2011 in London, UK. It is a rich conversation between six representatives from six diverse activist organisations, all of which focus on resisting, challeng ing,...
I, like many, am deeply saddened by the news of the violent death of David Kato, a prominent Ugandan LGBTI activist. David was murdered in his home on 26 January in a village near Kampala. Although the motives for his murder are not yet confirmed, it is highly...
The resort to kettling as a preliminary strategy of the London Met has left many of us worried – not to mention cold, hungry, and angry for hours at a time. Those of us who have been subject to the pigpen have many stories to share about being detained for hours on...