Legal scholarship on the relationship between private law and human rights is dominated by (i) ‘constitutionalisation’; the idea that private law will absorb human rights norms over time (ii) the instrumental use of private law to enforce compliance with human rights...
A Masters Student Symposium Organised by the Student Salon of the Centre for the study of Colonialism, Empire and International Law (CCEIL) at SOAS, University of London, 16 March 2013 The purpose of this symposium is to assess critically the role of law as a...
What is Law’s relationship to senses? In a sense, Law, the anaesthetic par excellence, is constantly engaged in numbing the senses into common-sense; manipulating, channelling and controlling the sensible; inserting properties and forbidding contacts; dissimulating...
It is 24 years since Queen’s University Belfast last hosted the Critical Legal Conference. In that time, Northern Ireland has undergone significant political and social change spurred on by a difficult (and ongoing) process of, and yet steadfast commitment to,...
Law and Boundaries is an interdisciplinary yearly conference that aims to discuss and propose new perspectives on the challenges the legal discipline is facing regarding its object, its function, its theoretical foundations and its practical outcomes. The focus of...
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...
