When Valerie Kerruish died in 2022, Critical Legal Thinking hosted a series of reflections from her former colleagues, friends, and collaborators. As recounted there, Valerie spent decades from the mid-1960s teaching law in Australia with an abiding concern for the dispossession of indigenous Australians and the unremitting violence they face. She then moved to Hamburg and founded, with Uwe Petersen and Matthias Kaiser, the Altonaer Stiftung für philosophische Grundlagenforschung.  Val was my teacher, mentor, and friend. I can hardly imagine being an academic without her inspiring works and provocations.  Emilios Christodoulidis, a legal philosopher very dear to Val, observed on her passing that she was a perfectionist, and thus her magnum opus had remained ‘devastatingly unfinished’. Emilios, too, has now left us; his life cruelly cut short. His oeuvre is a vast array of books and articles, so we can continue thinking with him. Val’s book that Emilios...