When Valerie Kerruish died in 2022, Critical Legal Thinking hosted a series of reflections from her former colleagues, friends, and collaborators. As recounted there, Valerie spent decades from the mid-1960s teaching law in Australia with an abiding concern...
Neoliberal universities as a place where radical thoughts come to wither away. We are living in bad times (admittedly, I struggle to remember the good times, but the current bad times do seem quite bad). And in bad times there is an impulse amongst decent people to...
Its shadow/ had swallowed the entire city;/ we thought/ it was a mountain…/ until it collapsed, and we saw/ it was a bubble/ blown straight from the mouth of darkness!/ Let them say that death is the end,/ but I say:/ The death of a dictator/ is the only day when...
Since early 2026, Rojava in North East Syria, has been under renewed assault by the new Syrian regime. A majority-Kurdish region, Rojava has, for more than 12 years been home to one of the world’s largest experiments in democratic autonomy and ecological living. The...
It seems that we have entered a period of endless war. The undeclared American war “Epic Fury” (the name of the attack on Iran) and Israel’s new murderous campaign has replaced the “cosmopolitan order of rules” heralded by those who saw...
It is with the greatest sadness that wish to inform you that our comrade, colleague, friend and amazing intellectual, Emilios Christodoulides, passed away yesterday. After a long illness that tormented him for the last two years, he passed away peacefully in...
