Critical Legal Thinking

Critical Legal Thinking is published by the Critical Legal Thinking collective and focuses on critical perspectives within legal scholarship. The blog covers topics such as comparative law, jurisprudence, legal history, and socio-legal studies. It engages with global legal issues, including human rights challenges faced by marginalized groups, and explores interdisciplinary approaches to law and society. The blog also highlights academic events and calls for papers related to critical legal theory, global inequality, and the critique of law and society. It serves as a platform for scholarly debate on the intersections of law, power, and social justice.

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This is not a music review. It’s a proposal for a jurisprudential methodology that takes its organising metaphor from music theory but its critical object from law’s refusal to register what its own categories cannot hold.In 2017, the Australian psyche-rock…

Image: Ear Study No. 1 | Richard Sanger Smith 1840 | Public DomainPaper delivered at the Critical Legal Conference 2026, Westminster Law School.This continues a question I first broached in a chapter dedicated to The Legal Theory of Costas Douzinas,…