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LAW AND THE POLITICAL
Emilios Christodoulides 1963–2026
It is with the greatest sadness that wish to inform you that our comrade, colleague, friend and amazing intellectual, Emilios Christodoulides, passed away yesterday. After a long illness that tormented him for the last two years, he passed away peacefully in Edinburgh, surrounded by his partner and three children. Those who knew him are aware of his calm and open spirit, his kindness and gentleness, his sense of humour and joie de vivre, his unwavering faith in principles and values, and, of course, his immense intellect, which set important new directions in constitutional law, labour law, critical and legal theory. Emilios was one of the most impressive critical legal scholars of his generation. He was the managing director of Law and Critique for the last four years and ensured that the journal pioneered the most radical and innovative theoretical trends in critical legal thought. The critical legal community mourns his passing and will appropriately celebrate his life, work and...
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One no, many yeses! The Greek Referendum
A victory for OXI would not just help restore a sense of dignity to Greece; it would strengthen the ground for anti-austerity struggles across Europe. Today, Greece has an opportunity to make history. The brave decision by Prime Minister Tsipras to call a referendum...
On Destroying What Destroys You: An Interview with Thomas Nail
Thomas Nail is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver and author of The Figure of the Migrant (Stanford University Press, 2015) and Returning to Revolution: Deleuze, Guattari, and Zapatismo (Edinburgh University Press, 2012). His publications...
The Greeks Deserve Better from Europe
Greek Prime Minister Alex Tspiras announced a July 5th Referendum on whether Greece should accept the Troika’s final demand that Greece accept additional austerity measures in exchange for further loans. Countering the ‘shock and awe’ tactics of the Troika, the Greek...
‘The Republic of Love’
Almost a month has passed since the verdict of ‘Yes For Love’ was returned in the same-sex marriage referendum in Ireland. For the people who drove the campaign; for those who canvassed during the hard emotional slog of its last month in particular; for all those who...
The In/determinacy of Human Rights: A Response to O’Connell
Paul O’Connell recently argued that human rights are not a trap for emancipatory and radical projects. They can be productively placed with different discourses like anti-capitalism, anti-racism or queer politics, generating productive moments of resistance. He argues...
Big Oil’s Ethical Violence
International attention has once again turned to the murky record of BP’s oil operations in Colombia. The High Court in London is to hear a case against BP, filed on behalf of Gilberto Torres, a former trade unionist who was kidnapped and tortured by state-linked...
Human Rights: Contesting the Displacement Thesis
As a general rule, the precise significance of historical shifts, developments or movements can take a long time to reveal themselves. This is no doubt also true for human rights. For good or ill, and in many ways that remains to be seen, the language of human rights...
Reforming the Welfare State for Saving Capitalism
[Given the recent success of Free Education movements and higher eductaion trades unions in blocking the 'Teach Higher' work casualisations proposals at the University of Warwick, we thought the below missive from Wildcat Germany was appropriate grounds for a pause....
Gay Rights in Russia
Homosexuality is not a criminal offence in Russia — since 1993. In 1999 it ceased to be regarded as a mental illness. Indeed, Russian history has many famous homosexuals — the poet Alexei Apukhtin; Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of the Ballets Russes; and of...
More than “the icing on the cake”: Can conservative Christians legitimately refuse to create pro-gay messages?
The legal drama over conservative Christian refusal to provide gay people with a printed or iced message has been seen as a political dispute between gay equality, on the one hand, and religious freedom or rights of expression on the other. This post argues for a...
Critical Bibliographies: Human Rights
We regularly get requests from students and activists looking for suggested readings on particular topics, so I thought it might be a good idea to supplement our critical concepts page with critical bibliographies on various important subjects for critical legal...
Solidarity, Labour, Law: Between Greece and Europe
Alain Supiot and Emilios Christodoulidis discuss the questions of solidarity and the protection of work in Greece. Emilios Christodoulidis holds the Chair of Jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow. Alain Supiot holds the Chair ‘Etat social et mondialisation:...
I’m a feminist, could that make me an extremist? Yes, according to Theresa May’s new definition
Unfortunately it is still the case that some people, for whatever reason, are yet to catch onto the monumental importance of feminism. That being said, I’ve found that it’s extremely rare, in the course of serious conversation, to encounter any expectation that I...
The Militarization of Care: the Military-Medical Gaze and the US-Mexico Border
The immigration crisis of summer 2014 made national news once more in February of 2015 when a federal judge granted an injunction on behalf of Central American mothers and children which ordered a stoppage to the Obama administration’s policy of detaining women and...
Left Thoughts from Podemos: Fear, Identity and Social change
A short while ago I spent a week in the United Kingdom, presenting Podemos in various cities, where I was able to discuss matters of major importance to Britain’s political tradition, such as the relation between parties and unions. The debate also got us involved in...
Why Muslims Can’t Trust the Legal System: The Lutfur Rahman Judgement and Institutional Racism
Institutional racism: "The collective failure of an organisation to provide an appropriate and professional service to people because of their colour, culture, or ethnic origin. It can be seen or detected in processes, attitudes and behaviour which amount to...
The foodbank dilemma (part 2 of 2)
Read Part 1 here. A Last Resort While there are endless subtle varieties in the way different foodbanks operate, there is one fundamental similarity in the reasons why people use them. Professor Dowler and her colleagues, in their report to DEFRA, found that people...
The Foodbank Dilemma (part 1 of 2)
When I think about foodbanks now, more than anything else, I think about...
Migrant Lives: Not A Commodity
This text is written by a group of people living in the United Kingdom who are migrants, students and workers. In the last few weeks alone we have witnessed the deaths of hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea and we have mourned Pinakin Patel who died in...
Reflections on #FucktheTories
To those who are arguing that people don’t have a right to protest against a government that was “democratically” voted in: Yes we do. This is a government which is waging war on the poor, the homeless, the disabled, the unemployed, immigrants, students, single mums...
On the Horns of the Moon: 5 More Years Of Pain
As I walked along the pavement early yesterday morning to get the papers, under the heavy grey sky, cussing the cold temperatures and contemplating all that a Tory majority will mean for the next five years, a few party volunteers (presumably Labour, given the...
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