The Critical Legal Conference (“CLC”) 2012. I thought I’d leave it until a week after the event, to allow time for the dust to settle, before reflecting on the connections between the diverse papers, the intense conversations and my own theoretical preoccupations. It...
Just over five years ago, on 21 June 2007, Australia’s then prime minister John Howard announced that rates of child sex abuse in the country’s Northern Territory aboriginal communities were so high that they constituted a national emergency. Drawing on the federal...
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...
It seems a century has gone by since the political season of the Tute Bianche (White Overalls), but it was only a little over ten years ago. Ten years in which much has happened. Despite the historical shifts that have taken place in these past ten years, rebellious...
It has been a long fortnight for South Africa, which has unmistakably shown all the flaws and fallacies of its post-apartheid ‘rainbow nation’, along with the weaknesses of a non-racialist society deeply riddled with economic and social asymmetries. More importantly,...
Article the first: Public space is intended for the exchange and circulation of commodities. Like all other commodities, people may move about freely within it. Article 2: Public space is space that belongs to no one. What belongs to no one belongs to the State. The...
