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
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Iran’s Uprising: Between Clerical Violence and Neo-colonial Aggression
The beginning of 2026 marked yet another human tragedy for Iranian society. In January, hundreds of thousands of Iranian protesters took to the streets in over 100 cities in response to political repression and growing socio-economic hardships. This new wave…
CfP: 5th Nomos Conference: Theory
The world is at the crossroads, but we know it all too well. Media are filled with disturbing news. The word ‘crisis’ is used so often that it doesn’t produce much more than the feeling of exhaustion. Such social reality…
Call to Participate in a Collective Book: Decrypting Cinema as Ideology
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…
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…