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Call for Streams: Critical Legal Conference 2026
CLC2026 invites stream proposals exploring the theme of PROTOCOLS, via three distinct modes, each with its own dedicated call (below) – WORKS OF TEXT, PERFORMING BODIES and PROOF OF CONCEPT.For logistical reasons, we ask that each session is defined as
New Translation of Pashukanis: The Right of Asylum and the Practice of Bourgeois Governments
Introductory Note by Igor ShoikhedbrodE.B. Pashukanis (1891-1937) is best known for his General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), where he offered an original account of the genesis of the legal form under generalized
Call for Expressions of Interest: The Future of Good Decisions – Live Action Role Play
Call for Expressions of Interest: The Future of Good Decisions – Live Action Role Play by Connal Parsley | 13 Apr 2026
Deadline for Expression of Interest: 24th April 2026The Future of Good Decisions project is seeking expressions of interest
Crimmigration and the Ontology of Guilt: On Subjectivity and the Negation of Law
The contemporary figure of the foreigner is not judged for what they do, but for the fact of who they are. In regimes of crimmigration, guilt no longer follows the act—it precedes it. It attaches to presence, to mobility, to
The abuse of UK anti-terror laws to proscribe direct action protest: The case of Palestine Action
The 13 February 2026 decision of the High Court inHuda Ammori v Secretary of State for the Home Department that the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action was unlawful, provides a fascinating insight into the abuse of UK
Defending Animal Rescue as a Moral Injury to a Relational Self
As individuals participating in the open rescue of animals increasingly adopt strategies of civil disobedience and “voluntary prosecution,” courts are pressed to adjudicate the definition of intent itself within an anthropocentric legal structure that excludes animals from moral and juridical
Learning to be Surprised (Symposium)
Val was a proper old-school scholar, interested in ideas for their own sake and driven to understand and respond to the injustices of the world. As a serious intellectual she was not interested in academic trends or popularity, but in
The Wrong of Law and Marx’s Second Secret (Symposium)
I feel honored to have been invited to comment on Valerie Kerruish’s The Wrong of Law, a book bringing a great range of methodological approaches to bear on a problematic of great interest to me. The book’s focal point is the
Surprising Law (Symposium)
In one of the moving tributes to Valerie Kerruish posted on Critical Legal Thinking[1] shortly after her passing away, Emilios Christidoulidis wrote that “(h)er magnum opus The Wrong of Law, which she spent the last two decades of her life writing, remains devastatingly unfinished.”