The world is at the crossroads, but we know it all too well. Media are filled with disturbing news. The word ‘crisis’ is used so often that it doesn’t produce much more than the feeling of exhaustion. Such social reality has reshaped academia, which often feels...
Editors: Jonnie Eriksson, Kalle Jonasson and Angus McDonald The book series “Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South” invites submissions for a new collective volume with the preliminary title Decrypting Cinema as...
The protection of people threatened with death is a fundamental aspect of law enforcement and public security. This workshop will bring together academics, civil servants, legal practitioners, human rights activists and authorities from Brazil and South...
Call for applications for the Law & Marxism Spring School on “Race, Resources and Redistribution” in Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 April 2026 Following the success in the first and second editions, this three-day focused workshop aimed at Marxist scholar-activists...
The Journal of Comparative Law: When William Twining passed away on 9 October 2025, the global legal academy lost one of its most original and eclectic thinkers. Twining was a scholar of extraordinary range, leading debates not only within comparative law and...
“Why all the fuss about the body?” Caroline Bynum first posed this provocation in the mid-1990s, prompted by a “proliferation” of new writings and theorizations, including then-recent and now-classic works by Judith Butler, bell hooks and Susan Bordo. Looking back...
