by Admin | 23 Jul 2026 | Article, What we are reading 2026
Maria Aristodemou Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press, 2024) The narrator dog of one of Kafka’s short stories, “Investigations of a Dog”, declares that “all knowledge, all questions and all answers are contained...
by Admin | 13 Jul 2026 | Article, Series, What we are reading 2026
Costas Douzinas The Dalkey Archive by Flan O’Brien (First publication 1964, Fourth Estate, 2007) ‘Suspended Sentences”, a theatrical play that was published as a chapter in Postmodern Jurisprudence by Costas Douzinas and Ronnie Warrington with Shaun McVeigh...
by Illan rua Wall | 12 Jul 2026 | Article, Series, What we are reading 2026
Many years ago when this blog began, we used to run a series called “what we are reading…”. The idea was simply to share some initial thoughts on texts that we were finding helpful or interesting. We hoped share a certain joy of texts, and to take pleasure in the...
by Tarik Kochi | 31 Mar 2026 | Article, Series, The Wrong of Law
Val was a proper old-school scholar, interested in ideas for their own sake and driven to understand and respond to the injustices of the world. As a serious intellectual she was not interested in academic trends or popularity, but in working through a set of...
by Iaan Reynolds | 30 Mar 2026 | Article, The Wrong of Law
I feel honored to have been invited to comment on Valerie Kerruish’s The Wrong of Law, a book bringing a great range of methodological approaches to bear on a problematic of great interest to me. The book’s focal point is the self-seriousness of legal discourse....
by Bert van Roermund | 27 Mar 2026 | Article, The Wrong of Law
In one of the moving tributes to Valerie Kerruish posted on Critical Legal Thinking[1] shortly after her passing away, Emilios Christidoulidis wrote that “(h)er magnum opus The Wrong of Law, which she spent the last two decades of her life writing,...
