ISSUE VII: TRESPASSDeadline: February 6 2023 I was 16 years old when I first trespassed onto some railway tracks and write the initials of the graffiti crew (of which I was the only member) on a wall. Afterwards the most incredible thing happened – absolutely nothing....
As I sat down to write this piece on some of the less credited and understood sonorous movements in the UK and their affecting encounters with law, snippets of David Cameron’s pronouncements on ‘blitzing poverty’ and ‘bulldozing the UK’s worst sink estates’ transmute...
If you see a house, take it and let the law do its damnedest. (Dworkin 1988, 13) This seminar has been put together at a timely juncture to interrogate the changing landscapes of property and law within legislation, within buildings, within history, within...
If you see a house, take it and let the law do its damnedest (Dworkin, 1988: 13) Remember - trying to stop squatting is like stamping on a greasy golfball (All Lambeth Squatters, 1974) As of 1 September 2012, under Section 144 of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and...
William S Burroughs (1914-1997), is one of the most influential, and yet much maligned writers of the Twentieth Century. He has been described by critical legal theorist Nathan Moore as, "... one of the most fundamental diagnosticians of the 20th century [in] the role...
This piece was originally written for and presented at the Disobedience Workshop (20–21 May 2011) at the School of Law, Birkbeck College. Since putting together my abstract a few months ago, there have been some alterations and additions and analogies that have...
I recently returned from a three month fellowship in the kaleidoscopic nation that is Indonesia. I undertook research with non-governmental organisation ICRAF (World Agroforestry Centre), analysing their ‘rewards’ (Payments for Environmental Services or ‘PES’) schemes...
It seems as though a unique space within UK law is soon to be removed, or at least being discussed as so. Whilst the recent bout of occupations, and the display of revolt against the violent education cuts, reached their climax, I was away in another country. I...
A short poem inspired by the student protests, mainly on the ‘kettling of kettling’ idea used by friends and supporters of injured protestor Alfie Meadows. They created something of a 'Russian doll' effect by surrounding the police at their headquarters at Scotland...
So what stood out at the G20 protests? What was so important about such a mass of individuals swarming in their many creeds against a system that is in seeming decay? What, some said to me, was the point of such an endeavour when the leaders of the world were trying...