The CLC2022 will be hosted by the Faculty of Law of UiT The Arctic University of Tromsø. Since its first annual meeting in 1986, the Critical Legal Conference (CLC) has been a key site for the critical study of legal and political questions both in Britain and...
We live in troubled times: old forms, albeit waning, still hold sway over our world, but the new forms are still in the dark. The liberal hegemony is no longer able to sustain the ideology of capitalist tranquil happiness. Authoritarianism rears its ugly head both in...
THE PROLETARIAT RELOADED: BADIOU BEYOND MARXISM AND ANARCHISM Jon Mazzalini The Proletariat Reloaded This book is an important and original attempt to overcome the opposition between Marxism and anarchism, a rift that opened up with the First International in the...
We are delighted to announce the publication of The Critical Legal Pocketbook. Law creates an ethical and rational facade for itself, but beneath the surface it has its monsters; the leviathan of the state, the golems of racism and misogyny, the hydra of coloniality,...
Institute for International Law and the Humanities (Melbourne Law School) It’s hard to believe, but Melbourne Law School’s Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) is now 15 years old. This seems like an excellent reason to celebrate, and to...
Utopias and utopian thinking can often be seen as an exercise in dreaming; the unrealistic imagining of an impossible society. In the thinking behind laws and legal systems, there is an underpinned imagining of ideal worlds. Drawing from the work of Austin Sarat,...
