Editors: Jonnie Eriksson, Kalle Jonasson and Angus McDonald The book series “Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South” invites submissions for a new collective volume with the preliminary title Decrypting Cinema as Ideology. This volume
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Greenland between a Rock and a Hard Place
Amid US President Trump’s looming take-over of Greenland and attempted coercion of Western allies to agree to this, Western liberal international lawyers and commentators are busy reaffirming Danish sovereignty over the territory. However, an anti-colonial international law intervention during this…
CfP: Evidence on the Protection of People Threatened with Death
The protection of people threatened with death is a fundamental aspect of law enforcement and public security. This workshop will bring together academics, civil servants, legal practitioners, human rights activists and authorities from Brazil and South Africa to discuss the use of evidence for…
Militant Democracy as Neurosis
By Bart Jansen
Walter Benjamin invites us to think language in a radically different way: not as a neutral medium of communication, but as something living, something creative. For him, language is not exclusively human: everything that exists speaks. It may do so…
Cadaverous Tranquillity: Proscription, Anticipatory Repression and Coleridge
In December 1795, William Pitt’s government introduced the Treasonable Practices Bill and the Seditious Meetings Bill—the “Gagging Acts” as their opponents called them. They were designed to suppress the radical democratic societies that had flourished in the wake of the…
Law & Marxism Spring School 2026
Call for applications for the Law & Marxism Spring School on “Race, Resources and Redistribution” in Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 April 2026 Following the success in the first and second editions, this three-day focused workshop aimed at Marxist scholar-activists will challenge…
Gaza, Venezuela and International Law
1. After the genocide in Gaza, we did not expect 2026 to be a year of peace. The biggest desire of Trump, “the great peacemaker,” was to win the Nobel Peace Prize. But his first statements after the attack on…
Rage Against the End of International Law: From Venezuela to the Global
In a recent piece published at Opinio Juris,[i] Nikolas M. Rajkovic calls on international lawyers to recalibrate their “ways of seeing” to account for the multi-scalar, relational, and interconnected nature of contemporary authority and power. His article invites a critical reexamination and…
CfP: Global Law and Particular Legalities: Essays in Honour of William Twining
The Journal of Comparative Law: When William Twining passed away on 9 October 2025, the global legal academy lost one of its most original and eclectic thinkers. Twining was a scholar of extraordinary range, leading debates not only within comparative law…
Why Human Rights fail Global Southern Women
Following a tumultuous start to her role as first lady of the United States of America, wherein she was accused of destroying ‘family values’ and promoting ‘militant feminism’,[1] Hillary Clinton delivered a much-lauded speech condemning Chinese abuses of human rights and calling…