As the Haiti disaster unfolds to ever greater levels of misery, it’s worth flagging up a number of brilliant analyses by people on the left. Whilst I’m sure many people have already read these, I think they give us
Robert Knox
Robert Knox is an author who publishes blog content focused on international law, legal theory, and political analysis. His writings explore the intersections of law with social, economic, and political contexts, often critiquing established legal doctrines and institutions. Topics include the social construction of disasters, the role of international law in global power dynamics, jurisprudential debates on natural law, and the spatial foundations of legal orders. Knox engages with critical legal scholarship and historical perspectives, analyzing how law shapes and is shaped by broader societal forces. His work reflects a scholarly approach to understanding law beyond formal rules, emphasizing its embeddedness in political and social realities.
Resolution
By Rob La Gatta
So, yeah, as is evident I haven’t exactly been a posting machine over the last few months. In my defence I’ve been fairly busy, but that’s not very much of an excuse. So, anyway, I have made a New Year’s…
Schmitt and Space
By Rob La Gatta
Today I want to continue my discussion of Schmitt, which admittedly I started rather a long time ago. Now, this discussion has been quite difficult for me to articulate. This is because I had written some fairly comprehensive (and I…
Principled opportunism and natural law jurisprudence
By Rob La Gatta
It’s amazing how difficult it can be to make time for blogging. I’ve had a lot on, and frankly sometimes all I want to do after actually doing that stuff is … well … not very much. Hopefully I’ll free…
Schmitt and Appropriation
By Rob La Gatta
So a few months ago (!), I finished reading Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth (2003 Telos Press), which I have been meaning to do for a long time. As ever, the book has to be read with some…
Anti-terror and racial balance
By Rob La Gatta
So presumably, people have heard the hilarious news that police are stopping and searching white people under anti-terror laws so as to ‘balance’ racial statistics. Now, I have to say that this does confirm some of the anecdotal evidence I…
Multilateralism as Terror
By Rob La Gatta
Courtesy of Birkbeck’s e-print service I’m pleased to finally be able to link to China Mieville’s most excellent article ‘Mulitlateralism as Terror: International Law, Haiti and Imperialism’. I’d suggest that everyone read this as it provides a neat and…
Pre-Pre-Terrorism
By Rob La Gatta
Sorry for the lack of substantive posts, they are coming, and I’d also like to comment on the insightful post addressing my terrorism thing very soon. But I just thought this needed to be flagged up:Police have carried out…
Liberal interventionism at home…
By Rob La Gatta
Just a tiny post of little worth (more substantive stuff coming soon – I promise; and who could resist a ‘principled opportunism’/natural law post, and something on left liberalism/republican freedom), I was just reading this article about the new counter-terrorism…