The 2017 Critical Legal Conference will be hosted by the University of Warwick, and they have just opened their call for papers and panels. The general theme is Catastrophe, but there are a wide array of different streams. You are invited to propose a paper, panel or...
Kent Law School announces its annual Kent Summer School in Critical Theory (KSSCT), running again this year in Paris, from 26 June to 7 July. The KSSCT offers the opportunity to attend a single two-week intensive seminar with a leading critical thinker. This year,...
How does language shape our understanding of politics? How are we to conceptualise desire in relation to law and language? What collaborations can be established between politics, law and language? This two-day Birkbeck conference will seek to engage with the idea of...
In the opening sentence of Peter Fitzpatrick’s seminal book, The Mythology of Modern Law, first published in 1992, the claim that “law as a unified entity can only be reconciled with its contradictory existences if we see it as myth” is described as the first...
“ To dig, to drill , to burrow, to punch, to enlarge, to fill up, to fall in, to jump over, to look through, to hide in- all of these, and indeed many others, are things we do with, around, inside, and through holes.” “A hole is there where something isn’t.” Casati...
The intersections of comics and legality represent a burgeoning area of concern within, without, and between legal, cultural, and comics communities. But what directions or distractions do comics bring to the project of justice? Are comics a valuable and important...
