This is not a music review. It’s a proposal for a jurisprudential methodology that takes its organising metaphor from music theory but its critical object from law’s refusal to register what its own categories cannot hold.In 2017, the Australian psyche-rock
Ethiopia’s National Dialogue Conference closed on 22 August in Addis Ababa, with President Taye Atske Selassie and foreign dignitaries, among them former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, in attendance. Parliament had established the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission in January 2022 and
Image: Ear Study No. 1 | Richard Sanger Smith 1840 | Public DomainPaper delivered at the Critical Legal Conference 2026, Westminster Law School.This continues a question I first broached in a chapter dedicated to The Legal Theory of Costas Douzinas,
Following the untimely death of Prof Emilios Christodoulidis, in February of this year a new group of managing editors was appointed for the journal Law & Critique. We join Law and Critique as new Managing Editors with a desire to do
The Justice Squid did not appear at Westminster Law School, during its hosting of CLC2026. The Justice Squid, in fact, failed to appear; it remained hidden and lurking behind the scenes, staged only by the performative meanderings of myself and
The Association of Law and Political Economy (ALPE) invites proposals for its second annual meeting, to be held on June 9-10, 2027, in Boston, MA. Panels, roundtables, and individual paper proposals are welcome. ALPE encourages submissions by academics, organizers, practitioners,
Photo: Siena, Piazza del Campo 13 August 2026, first day of Palio. ©Maria, author’s cousin. Mid-August: some lazy thoughts from my sofa.“What if, in Siena, it didn’t stop raining until Christmas Eve? Would the Palio1 be run on Christmas Day?”
IntroductionOccupied Jerusalem is often narrated through maps, military operations, diplomatic failures, or religious contestation (Qadir and Smith, 2025). We are told stories of borders, security, sovereignty, and conflict. Rarely are we invited into the quieter, stubborn realities of survival, the
Photo by Rana GöksuGeo-Materializing the Legal Imaginary: The Cycle of Produced and Producing Geography examines how land once rendered ‘null’ was later claimed as ‘full’, and how these transformations continue to shape our imaginaries on political authority, identity, societal organization, governing
The Godfather, The Sopranos, The Irishman, Scarface, Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco, Gomorrah, A Tale, Once Upon a Time in America, and, closer to home, Legend, taught many of us how to imagine organised crime before we ever read a court judgment. They have given us dark restaurants, family dinners,
