We continue our series on contemporary critical (legal) books with a series of responses to Scott Veitch’s, Obligations: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2021). We will post four responses to Scott’s new work, each picking distinct themes which together...
We continue our series on contemporary critical (legal) books with a series of responses to Scott Veitch’s, Obligations: New Trajectories in Law (Routledge, 2021). We will post four responses to Scott’s new work, each picking distinct themes...
Series: Critical Legal Thinking on China Critical theory borrows liberally from various anti-liberal thinkers , such as Karl Marx and Carl Schmitt, but what should critical legal scholarship on – and in – illiberal political regimes look like? This essay discusses the...
Series: Critical Legal Thinking on China As “the factory of the world,” China’s development of the manufacturing economy in the past four decades has relied on its large informal, precarious, and marginalized internal migrant workforce. Among the country’s 800...
Series: Critical Legal Thinking on China It has been said that a poem is never finished, just abandoned. Academic writing has a touch of that too. The visions and revisions it has taken to get a text into decent shape could always do with one more run through, one...
Series: Critical Legal Thinking on China On December 4, 2020, the keynote lecture for Hong Kong’s second annual official “Constitution Day Seminar” was delivered by Peking University law professor Chen Duanhong. In his remarks, Chen firmly supported the legal climate...
