@Seyhan Avşar The Enemy, The Law, The Reason The repercussion of the prosecution of Can Atalay will have a major impact on the politics in Turkey. Atalay is a socialist lawyer and rights defender who was sentenced to 18 years in prison following the ‘Gezi Trial’....
Continuing our series on Folúkẹ́ Adébísí brilliant Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge (Bristol University Press 2023), Beth Kamunge-Kpodo and Folúkẹ́ Adébísí have a conversation about how to use decolonisation to uncover the silences and absences in legal knowledge....
(24 December 1934 – 5 November 2023) My most enduring image of Enrique Dussel shows him in the role that made him happiest. That of a teacher, maestro in Spanish; with a lowercase ‘m’, as in the mastery of non-mastery. There he is, in front of a...
Dear Mr Starmer, We, the undersigned, are writing to request that the Labour party immediately clarify its position on the prohibition of collective punishment. On 11 October, you were asked on LBC radio if Israel’s siege of Gaza, and the cutting off of...
The Earth is closing on Palestinians in Gaza. As I write these lines, Israel continues to bomb more than two million Palestinians, refugees and the descendants of refugees confined to the besieged Gaza Strip, which measures a mere 365 square km. More than 300,000...
Gordon Bennett, ‘Home Decor (Relative/Absolute) Flowers for Mathinna #2 (1999) Although ‘race’ is a construction, it manifests in various juridical and political formations, and in the lived experience of everyday life. Australia, as a state and society, is one such...
