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
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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…
CfP: Critical Times Summer School 2026: Bodies
“Why all the fuss about the body?” Caroline Bynum first posed this provocation in the mid-1990s, prompted by a “proliferation” of new writings and theorizations, including then-recent and now-classic works by Judith Butler, bell hooks and Susan Bordo. Looking back…
The State of Critique: Launch of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS)
To inaugurate the launch of our new research centre (formerly the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, we are bringing together intellectuals from across the disciplines of…
CfP: Decrypting Global Inequality
Call for abstracts for a collective book Editors: Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) BOOK SERIES: Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global South Introduction and Premise We are excited to announce an Open Call for Abstracts for the…
CfP: Criminological Perspectives on Palestine
The Israeli military operations in Gaza and the broader Palestinian territories over the last two years present a continuing oppression of Israel against the Palestinians, and have resulted inunprecedented levels of civilian harm and societal devastation. To this day, mass killings and mutilations of civilians, the deliberate starvation of an entire population, widespread displacement, and a near-total destruction of infrastructure continue. These acts…