The Queen Mary Annual PhD Law conference 2026, organised in collaboration with the Queen Mary Law Journal, invites submissions for papers engaging with critical legal thinking in a rapidly evolving world. Critical legal thinking involves a shifting of perspectives, which
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Emilios Christodoulides 1963–2026
It is with the greatest sadness that wish to inform you that our comrade, colleague, friend and amazing intellectual, Emilios Christodoulides, passed away yesterday. After a long illness that tormented him for the last two years, he passed away peacefully in Edinburgh,…
Event: Anarchism and Sex
Emma Goldman stands as a foundational figure in anarchist political thought, embodying a radical reimagining of freedom, political activism, and the ethical conditions and possibilities of collective life. Living My Life provides not only a vivid autobiographical account but also…
CLC 2026: Protocols: Infrastructures of the Normative
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The Diapausal Life of International Law: Gaza and Beyond
Few contemporary conflicts have been as saturated with legal language as Gaza. Provisional measures issued by the International Court of Justice, arrest warrants sought by the International Criminal Court, findings by United Nations commissions of inquiry, emergency sessions of the…
Normopathy Today: Norms Behaving Badly
It is clear now, one-year into the second coming of Donald Trump, that the normative international order in place since World War II has been breached. Trump recently pronounced that he doesn’t need to follow international law because all that…
Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar
This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally published in Epohi’s special supplement on the Iranian uprising (24–25 January 2026). In the conversation, Faghfouri Azar discusses the dynamics…
New Book Series: Law, Aesthetics & Art
Legal practice is not just a matter of text-based, normative argumentation. It is also a material and bodily reality, which can be studied from aesthetic or artistic perspectives. Examples are legal architecture, paratextual elements, audiovisual representations or performances in law.…
CfP: Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism
Jointly hosted by the University Institute of Lisbon and Lisbon University Date: Wednesday to Saturday, September 9-12, 2026 IIPPE 16th Annual Conference in Political Economy The Political Economy and Law working group invites submissions of proposals for individual papers and…
One’s own morality as the highest court: A variation on Hegel’s concept of international law
Whether international law constitutes an independent legal domain endowed with sanctioning power with regard to its subjects is a question that has resurfaced in nearly every crisis that has emerged within the post Cold War new world order, and one…