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...
The concept of constituent power permeates several major areas of inquiry in constitutional theory. It has morphed from the Abbé de Sieyès’s distinction between constituent power and constituted powers, to Carl Schmitt’s understanding of political existence and the...
The School of Law, Birkbeck presents 2013 Annual Law Lecture IS THERE A RIGHT TO DISOBEDIENCE AND RESISTANCE? Professor Costas Douzinas Birkbeck, University of London ‘The ‘new world order’ announced in 1989 was the shortest in history coming to an abrupt end in...
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...
Whilst neoliberal institutional and economic reforms have attracted substantial scholarly attention in recent decades, the role of law in the neoliberal story has been relatively neglected. Yet law, broadly understood, features in various prominent aspects of the...
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...
