Since the global financial crash of 2008, we have witnessed increasing levels of unrest and social discontent around the world (the various Occupys, the Spanish and Greek Indignados, the Arab Spring, the continuing disturbances in Brazil). Each of these moments...
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...
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...
Enriching child protection law through musical techniques, discourses and pedagogies. 29–30 May. Improvisation, as that which occurs ‘on the spur of the moment’, is commonly assumed to eschew all law, convention, structure or form. A growing number of improvising...
You are cordially invited to the launch of Brenna Bhandar and Jonathon Goldberg-Hiller (eds) Plastic Materialities: Politics, Legality, and Metamorphosis in the Work of Catherine Malabou (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015) When: Thursday, 4th June 2015, 6:30pm...
