by Richard Clements | 28 Jul 2021 | Uncategorized
Concluding our engagement with Marketing Global Justice (CUP 2021), Richard Clements explores a particular moment of marketing the spectacle of global justice. ‘And here is now another example: I am at the barber’s, and a copy of Paris-Match is offered to me. On...
by Julia Emtseva | 27 Jul 2021 | Uncategorized
Continuing our engagement with Christine Schwöbel Patel’s Marketing Global Justice Julia Emtseva explores the role of donors in the global justice ‘sector’. Marketing Global Justice is more than a mere description of how branding strategies are...
by John Reynolds | 26 Jul 2021 | Uncategorized
We are thrilled to launch a series on contemporary critical (legal) books. Our first text in this series is Christine Schwöbel Patel’s Marketing Global Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2021). Over three posts we will explore different aspects of the book,...
by Jason Beckett | 12 Jul 2021 | Uncategorized
Public international law (PIL) is neocolonial in function. By this I mean that it continues to materialize the colonial functions of disciplining and plundering the under-developed world. Yet PIL is anti-colonial in form, officially committed to global inclusion and...
by Jason Beckett | 9 Jul 2021 | Uncategorized
Nicholas Rajkovic has recently introduced two concepts which, between them offer a fresh lens through which we can view our profession. Rajkovic developed these concepts, “performances of legality” and “vicarious litigation”, in his reflections on “lawfare”. But they...
by Angus McDonald | 7 Jul 2021 | Uncategorized
Ari, Perugia, 2019 With Ari’s death, a radiant intensity has been extinguished. That should be mourned, but that it existed at all must be celebrated. In physics, intensity of radiant energy is the power transferred per unit area, where the area is measured on the...
