Applications are now open for the 2024 TALS Academy in Advanced Legal Research and Method. The Transnational Association of Legal Scholars (TALS) is a group of legal scholars experienced in research and supervision and interested in the conduct and method of research in law. Our goal is to provide a short period of intensive training […] The post TALS Academy appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

The Legal Humanities Association (LHA) is a new learned society. It aims to foster a community dedicated to cultural understandings of law. It nurtures humanities-inflected legal scholarship, seeking innovative forms of legal knowledge and analysis. The LHA will be a home for scholars, research students, and practitioners working across law, humanities, and cultural studies, and […] The post Legal Humanities Association appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Since October, the world has watched in real time the transformation of Gaza from a concentration camp into a killing field. Besieged by land, air, and sea, Palestinian men, women, and children are now subject to a historically unprecedented program of mass extermination. Never before have the horrors of ethnic cleansing been so openly and […] The post Key Concept: Elimination in Settler Colonialism appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

During the past decade, it has become obvious that economic interconnectedness did not bring forth frictionless international relations as many liberal theorists had predicted. To the contrary, the fact that economic integration has been profoundly uneven has enabled the weaponisation of asymmetrical economic relations for the achievement of geopolitical and/or economic goals (Whyte 2022; Farrell […] The post CfP: Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Continuing our responses to A Philosophical History of Police Killing, today we bring you Carson Arthur’s response to the book. In the UK, we are seeing the attempted rewriting of ‘police accountability.’ This in response to the prosecution and in preparation for the trial of the police officer, Martyn Blake, who killed Chris Kaba, a 24-year-old, […] The post Live and let live: the mythological projection of police in the killing of Chris Kaba  appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Following the publication of Melayna Lamb’s superb book A Philosophical History of Police Power, we have asked James Martel and Carson Arthur to respond to the book. Today we bring you James’ response. Melayna Lamb’s A Philosophical History of Police Power makes the startling claim that the police are a force of anarchy (although she […] The post Are the Police Anarchic? appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Reposted from Interregnum. Whatever the contentions on the term we use to express the scale and method of killing we are witnessing in Gaza, the description at the International Court of Justice as a ‘live-streamed genocide‘ is both apt and particular to our age. For this is no 20th-century genocide we hear of through whispered rumours. Instead, […] The post The Colonial Breach and the Colonial Bind appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Epistolary International Law Date: 26 September 2024 Location: LSE Convened by Nora Jaber and Gerry Simpson Increasingly, scholars publicly intervene in international events by writing letters in which they invoke international law to denounce injustices as illegal. The weight and authority of these interventions derives, partly, from the status and proclaimed expertise of the letters’ […] The post CfP Epistolary International Law appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

We live under orders of speculation, where both financial capital and nation-state modes of accounting, or not accounting for, lives and ways of living perpetuate how we come to understand and act in the world. At the same time, such orders of speculation invites the possibility of thinking: what if there could be other ways […] The post CfP: Critical Legal Conference 2024: Speculation(s) appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more

Twenty years have passed since Jacques Derrida’s death, yet his profound philosophical contributions to the Critical Legal Studies movement in both the UK and the US continue to reverberate. His concept of deconstruction, which challenges traditional philosophical dichotomies and concepts through meticulous analysis of language and reason, has been a driving force for numerous Critical […] The post Symposium: Derrida and his Legacy within Critical Legal Studies: Twenty years since his Death appeared first on Critical Legal Thinking ..read more