CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
CRITICAL LEGAL THINKING
LAW AND THE POLITICAL
Resisting Neocolonial Genocidal Hyperreality: A Middle Eastern Voice
Amidst the intellectual and political tumult surrounding the genocide of the Palestinian people, this essay seeks to foreground and amplify a marginalised voice. We aim to intervene in ongoing debates within academia and the wider public in the Global North, which often fail to grasp the lived realities of the people in the Middle East, shaped for over half a century by twin forces of neocolonial warfare and despotism. We articulate a distinctly Middle Eastern perspective that is anchored in a legacy of resistance against both Western neocolonial imperialism and ethno-religious despotism. From the outset, and in keeping with the ethical and political legacy of our revolutionary predecessors, we express our principled recognition of diverse and vital traditions of resistance across the Middle East and throughout Africa, Asia and Latin America. Our intention is not to disavow other liberatory intellectual and political currents, but rather to amplify an overlooked voice from the...
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Zizek on Equity & Trusts… well almost…
Equity is something of a problem. Aside from the blatant patriarchy of the Presumption of Advancement or Common Intention Constructive Trusts, it is often a little difficult to smuggle critical (legal) theory into an Equity and Trusts course. A long time ago now,...
Resonance and the Egyptian Revolution
What has coalesced as a powerful, unstoppable force on the streets of Egypt is resonance: the assertive collective empathy created by multitudes fighting for the control of space. Resonance is an intensely bodily, spatial, political affair, materialized in the masses...
Withdrawing Consent
For the last month, we have been witnessing, in Tunisia and Egypt, the first revolution of the twenty-first century. We are indeed fortunate to live in the presence of such a world-making event, even if we are not in the streets together with those who are making it a...
Messages of Support for the Hunger Strikers in Greece from Costas Douzinas and Slavoj Zizek
The hunger strike in Greece is now on the 25th day. Three hundred sans papiers immigrants are on strike in Athens and Thessaloniki. The majority come from North Africa and have been living and working in Greece for periods of up to 7 years. This is Egypt in Athens and...
A Short Legal History of the Credit Crunch – Part 4 of 4
The suffering spreads Our notional executive’s assumption about how industry would help the banks and the economy out of the Credit Crunch was in one element correct. Borrowers had bailed out the banks, but it was only by means of workers’ redundancies, the stripping...
A Short Legal History of the Credit Crunch – Part 3 of 4
At whatever time our industrial borrower first took on the credit agreement with which it found itself, in 2009, chained and broken before its financial masters, it is likely it only had a vague inkling that anyone beyond its relationship bank was, or was to be,...
A Short Legal History of the Credit Crunch – Part 2 of 4
With the Credit Crunch in the finance sector now causing deleterious effects in the ‘real’ economy (see Part 1), concerned Finance Directors (“FDs”) turned to their relationship banks with a view to agreeing how best to muddle through what appeared to be a temporary...
A Short Legal History of the Credit Crunch – Part 1 of 4
In this series of four articles this week I examine the course of the Credit Crunch from the perspective of the interface between the hyper-financialised world of collateral debt obligations and securitisation, and the more familiar world of industrial corporate...
The People’s Revolution for Freedom and Human Dignity
People who revolt against a hostile, dependent and unjust dominion in Tunisia, Egypt and other parts of the Arab world are establishing a new social contract and values and are unified through an unconditionally prevailing normative-ethical principle. This principle,...
Bearing Justice
The ‘domino effect’ is a remarkably crude mechanical metaphor which once again implicitly informs mainstream characterisations of the revolutions in play in Tunisia, Egypt, and to a lesser...
Anomie: On civil and democratic disobedience
Greek Minister for Public Transport Reppas stated last week that the government will not let ‘Greece exposed to the risk of international disrepute and marginalization, destinations of countries characterized by anomie. The attack on the social acceptability of the...
Slavoj Zizek & Tariq Ramadan on Egypt
Badiou: Tunisia, Riots & Revolution
Today I’ll talk to you about the riots in Tunisia. We won’t leave the subject of this year’s seminar — What does “change the world” mean? – an expression whose ambiguous character I’ve already described to you. If by “riots” we mean the street actions of people who...
Regulating Intimacy (again): Sex Workers as Vixens and Victims
Get your money for nothing And your chicks for free (Dire Straits) My previous contribution on Assange and the Swedish sex scandal drew some ire from feminist bloggers who mostly raised Catherine MacKinnon’s domination politics to refute my arguments relating to...
Kettling and the Rule of Law
Lord Justice Bingham once described the Rule of Law as 'the cornerstone of a democratic society.' Although on the face of it this constitutional principle might be associated with the idea that law and order reign, the doctrine's deeper implications concern how power...
Beyond Barbarism: David Kato, Uganda, and the American Right
I, like many, am deeply saddened by the news of the violent death of David Kato, a prominent Ugandan LGBTI activist. David was murdered in his home on 26 January in a village near Kampala. Although the motives for his murder are not yet confirmed, it is highly...
Before the Law (School)
What is the role of legal education, what does it mean to learn the law? The law teacher’s first duty is to understand and teach the language of justice, the breath, spirit and equity that should move the body of law. A law without justice is dead letter, body without...
The Phantom of Liberty Always Comes with a Knife Between its Teeth
Shooting in the flesh is the high point of social oppression. All the stones torn from the pavement and thrown at the shields of cops or at the façades of commercial temples; all the flaming bottles that traced their orbits in the night sky; all the barricades erected...
Societies of Control – Blacklisted
A quick suggestion of reading from here: In the report we aimed to provide a comprehensive review of the development and implementation of the ‘terrorism lists’ over the last decade and document the crisis of legitimacy that is currently facing. Since the inception of...
Where Even Liberal Politics Is Denied: The Case of Students in Malaysia
The recent case of the 'UKM Four' has triggered a new wave of public debate in Malaysia regarding the infamous Universities and University Colleges Act 1971 (UUCA, or AUKU in Malaysian). This piece of legislation – passed at the height of student (semi-)radicalism in...
The Negation of Modernity in Education Reform
On 24th October 2010 the Iranian state radio announced that new restrictions were imposed upon 12 social sciences that are considered to be based on Western intellectual currents and therefore incompatible with Islamic teachings. The list includes law, philosophy,...
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