On 8 April 2024, the workshop ‘Law and the Inhuman’ took place at Tilburg Law School (TLS), in the Netherlands, convened by Marie Petersmann, Julia Dehm, Kathleen Birrell and Afshin Akhtar-Khavari. The workshop gathered ten speakers from different disciplines, who...
Questions of data, law, feminism and the environment are not new, and contrary to popular perceptions, were not discovered as a field of critical thought by contemporary scholars. These debates were already taking place in national and international fora in the 1960s...
Continuing our responses to A Philosophical History of Police Killing, today we bring you Carson Arthur’s response to the book. In the UK, we are seeing the attempted rewriting of ‘police accountability.’ This in response to the prosecution and in preparation...
Following the publication of Melayna Lamb’s superb book A Philosophical History of Police Power, we have asked James Martel and Carson Arthur to respond to the book. Today we bring you James’ response. Melayna Lamb’s A Philosophical History of Police Power...
Reposted from Interregnum. Whatever the contentions on the term we use to express the scale and method of killing we are witnessing in Gaza, the description at the International Court of Justice as a ‘live-streamed genocide’ is both apt and particular to...
Tim Christiaens In the early 2010s, many people on the left proclaimed the death of state-based socialism, the political party, and any kind of organizational authority. From Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring, the 2011 revolts put their faith in horizontalist...
