CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
Greenland between a Rock and a Hard Place
Amid US President Trump’s looming take-over of Greenland and attempted coercion of Western allies to agree to this, Western liberal international lawyers and commentators are busy reaffirming Danish sovereignty over the territory. However, an anti-colonial international law intervention during this time of inter-imperial rivalry is not to stand with Denmark, but to stand on the side of the right to Greenlandic self-determination. Recent Developments on Greenland and International Law Following US President Trump’s tariff threats to European states who do not support his acquiring of Greenland, a seemingly bold joint statement was made by European allies that they stand ‘in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of Greenland’. Danes have taken to the streets, marching through Copenhagen with ‘Hands Off Greenland!’ placards. International Law professor Marc Weller recently indignantly stated on the question of who owns Greenland?: ‘The Danish...
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The Germanwings Disaster: A ‘Muslim-Australian’ Perspective
The intentional downing of the Germanwings aircraft on 24 March 2015 triggered an urgent media inquiry into the identity and motivations of co-pilot Andreas Lubitz. Armed with not much more than a grainy photograph of an unassuming man posing in front of the Golden...
Six Books: International Law, Human Rights and the Politics of the Turn to History
What do we mean by the turn to history in international law? We are speaking about a growing body of scholarship that is engaged in the task of bringing history to international law in a number of ways: telling the history of international law, contextualising...
JHRE Editorial: The Discourse of ‘Biocultural’ Rights
There can be little doubt of the multiple complexities facing law in the twenty-first century. Climate change alone presents a challenge of unprecedented global complexity for legal systems – a complexity arising, moreover, directly from the ‘complexity of the climate...
Australians overseas are calling for international protests against mandatory detention of asylum seekers
For decades Australia has been the subject of international institutional condemnation that has focused on Australia's policies of mandatory detention and off-shore processing of asylum seekers. In 2002 in the aftermath of Tampa, SIEV X, the spurious ‘children...
Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics
We are pleased to announce that Being Social: Ontology, Law, Politics, edited by Tara Mulqueen and Daniel Matthews, and published by COUNTERPRESS, is now available. Being Social brings together leading and emerging scholars on the question of sociality in...
Live blog: Warwick Summit on Protest
We'll be liveblogging the Warwick Summit on Protest today from 16:00 UK time. The Summit was proposed by Warwick Law School's Centre for Human Rights in response to events on campus last term which saw the University summoning the police to a Free Education...
Law’s Catastrophe and the Greatness of Syriza
Two narratives compete for the truth of today’s global political stage. On the one hand, there’s the narrative of leftist irresponsibility and incorrectness. On the other, an austere narrative of correctness based on the general notion that there’re certain...
For fragments, and not debts, we are
It may be the case that one could note the peculiar appearance of the thinking minister. A thinking minister is not suddenly a liberated or a good minister, but at least a minister who thinks and does not just administer or govern; thus maintaining for a number of...
The Greek Debt ‘Confidence Trick’
As William Shakespeare said in Much Ado About Nothing, “Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent.” As so it seems appropriate to cast our ‘eye’ upon the discourses that have defined the current Greek financial crisis from both the left and the...
To Question Law, Without Condition
Take your time but be quick about it, because you do not know what awaits you (Jacques Derrida). The heady days of Occupy Central have passed. The 79 day occupation of the...
Why we should worry about the theoretical foundations of human rights law and practice
Ivor Crewe, the former Essex Vice-Chancellor, and a political scientist, used to compare contemporary human rights activists to 19th century Christian missionaries, spreading the gospel to less enlightened peoples. There is more than a grain of truth to this ironical...
Syriza’s new contract between Greece and Europe
On Sunday 8 February 2015, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras explained the government’s policy commitments. Thanks to AnalyzeGreece and GreekReporter, we are happy to publish excerpts from his statement. The new contract between Greece and Europe which will be...
Syriza: The Greek Spring
According to an oft-repeated cliché, the recent Syriza victory has historic significance. Its place in history books as the first elected left government in Europe is assured. But its importance goes further. The Syriza victory is an important marker in three...
‘We are not with the State, We are with the Community’
All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. — E. A. Poe In an interview that Alexis Tsipras gave to the...
SYRIZA Wins: Reflections While the Tide is Turning
There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn’t. ∼ Leonard Cohen It is probably uncontroversial to argue that the Greek elections of the 25th January will be remembered as one of the most important in the history of Greece, of...
A Right to Breathe
The air is taken away from us; “we cannot breathe”. This is a commentary which draws inspiration from an evocative piece of writing by Jerome Roos which appeared earlier in Reflections on a Revolution. The title of his text, “From New York to Greece, we revolt ‘cus we...
Rewinding the Battle of Algiers in the Shadow of the Attack on Charlie Hebdo
In the classic 1966 film Battle of Algiers, Ali, a young, illiterate, unemployed bricklayer and draft dodger is arrested in Algiers for petty street crimes (he is a card swindler). In jail, Ali meets, unbeknownst to him, a member of the Algerian FLN (National...
“I am Charlie and I guard the Master’s house”
We condemn the Charlie Hebdo killings. We wholeheartedly and unreservedly condemn the killings and believe that no justification exists or can ever exist for them. We feel it necessary to make our condemnation explicit because we have found that there is a tendency to...
‘Not Afraid’
There is a close relation between satire and secularism as the latter came to emerge in Europe. Secularism, as is well-known, gained strength historically as a reaction to an era of European inter-religious violence and massacres. It was not only a desire for the...
‘Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone’? Modern Ireland, Inauthenticity and the Request to Revise Ireland v UK
In 1971 the Hillside Singers, in a song designed to inspire worldwide unity, sang of how they'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony; apparently the inspiration for the song came from the writers' experiences while delayed at Ireland's Shannon Airport....
Cuba and the Garden State: Assata Shakur, Abolition and the Problem of Pardon
My skin is black/ My arms are long/ My hair is woolly/ My back is strong/ Strong enough to take the pain/ inflicted again and again/ What do they call me/ My name is Aunt Sarah/ My name is Aunt Sarah — Nina Simone, “Four Women” The recent announcement by US...
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