Current debates on AI (understood here in the restricted sense of generative AI) have begun to focus almost overwhelmingly on whether AI is an author – of a text, or a picture, video, or piece of music – and whether it can, or should, have legal...
Image: Illustration of the Plan de Vida, reproduced with permission by local artist Angélica Ramírez We are working with the leading critical legal journal Law & Critique to bring their brilliant output to a broader audience. Many of the papers published with Law...
This is not a music review. It’s a proposal for a jurisprudential methodology that takes its organising metaphor from music theory but its critical object from law’s refusal to register what its own categories cannot hold. In 2017, the Australian psyche-rock...
Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Conference closed on 22 August in Addis Ababa, with President Taye Atske Selassie and foreign dignitaries, among them former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, in attendance. Parliament had established the Ethiopian...
Image: Ear Study No. 1 | Richard Sanger Smith 1840 | Public Domain Paper delivered at the Critical Legal Conference 2026, Westminster Law School. This continues a question I first broached in a chapter dedicated to The Legal Theory of Costas Douzinas,1 which in turn...
Following the untimely death of Prof Emilios Christodoulidis, in February of this year a new group of managing editors was appointed for the journal Law & Critique. We join Law and Critique as new Managing Editors with a desire to do justice to the tradition...
