I feel honored to have been invited to comment on Valerie Kerruish’s The Wrong of Law, a book bringing a great range of methodological approaches to bear on a problematic of great interest to me. The book’s focal point is the
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Surprising Law (Symposium)
In one of the moving tributes to Valerie Kerruish posted on Critical Legal Thinking[1] shortly after her passing away, Emilios Christidoulidis wrote that “(h)er magnum opus The Wrong of Law, which she spent the last two decades of her life writing, remains devastatingly unfinished.”…
The Foundational Wrong of Law (Symposium)
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Stephen Connelly There is an implicit assumption in jurisprudential reasoning that this reason, as form, is without inconsistency. Error is procedural: it results either from misrecognition of the ‘true’ law, from ignorance of the true facts, or from misapplication of…
The Vertigo of Self-Grounding (Symposium)
There is an image by M.C. Escher in which a staircase rises in perfect geometrical order, each step aligned, each angle exact — yet the ascent loops back upon itself. The movement is continuous, coherent, even rigorous; what unsettles is…
Symposium on Kerruish’s magnum opus: The Wrong of Law
When Valerie Kerruish died in 2022, Critical Legal Thinking hosted a series of reflections from her former colleagues, friends, and collaborators. As recounted there, Valerie spent decades from the mid-1960s teaching law in Australia with an abiding concern for the dispossession of…
CfP: Decolonial comparative law and the informal/formal economy
The Decolonial Comparative Law project (DeCoLa) at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, in partnership with the Fondation Afric’Avenir, is inviting submissions that seek to rethink the divide between the formal and informal economy through a…
Teaching as a revolutionary activity
Neoliberal universities as a place where radical thoughts come to wither away. We are living in bad times (admittedly, I struggle to remember the good times, but the current bad times do seem quite bad). And in bad times there is an…
A Red Winter: On war and the Iranian struggle for freedom
By Amin Parsa
Its shadow/ had swallowed the entire city;/ we thought/ it was a mountain…/ until it collapsed, and we saw/ it was a bubble/ blown straight from the mouth of darkness!/ Let them say that death is the end,/ but I…
CfA: Decrypting Artificial Intelligence: Genealogies, Geopolitics, Metaphysics
Book Series: Decrypting Power and Coloniality: Philosophical Perspectives from and through the Global, published by Bloomsbury (London). Introduction and Premises “Nature loves to hide,” said the philosopher Heraclitus. Strangely enough, the same is true of Artificial Intelligence, except that it…
‘After’ the Rojava Revolution? Rethinking Political Hope in a Post-Autonomy Syria
Since early 2026, Rojava in North East Syria, has been under renewed assault by the new Syrian regime. A majority-Kurdish region, Rojava has, for more than 12 years been home to one of the world’s largest experiments in democratic autonomy…