Several weeks ago, UK courts dealt a blow to the legal system in two cases. Both involve the group “Palestine Action”, whose aim is to end global complicity in the genocide in Gaza. The first case involves its proscription as
During his second term, US President Donald Trump has used or threatened tariffs against numerous countries in ways that blur the borders between economic and political demands and between tariffs and unilateral economic sanctions. Trump framed his sweeping “Liberation Day”
Strategic optimism as a concept for imagining and transforming justice, politics and resistanceIt is rare to attend a conference in honour of an author, in the presence of the said author. In all my 25 years of academic experience in
Maria Aristodemou Aaron Schuster, How to Research Like a Dog: Kafka’s New Science (MIT Press, 2024)The narrator dog of one of Kafka’s short stories, “Investigations of a Dog”, declares that “all knowledge, all questions and all answers are contained in the dog.” Aaron
The first lesson Costas Douzinas gave me was silence.Not deliberately, I assume. But that is where the story began.It took me the better part of a career inside the state to understand what that silence had been teaching me.At the
Costas DouzinasThe Dalkey Archive by Flan O’Brien (First publication 1964, Fourth Estate, 2007) ‘Suspended Sentences”,
Many years ago when this blog began, we used to run a series called “what we are reading…”. The idea was simply to share some initial thoughts on texts that we were finding helpful or interesting. We hoped share a
Public Domain; Map Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.When the United Kingdom and Mauritius signed a historic treaty in May 2025 transferring sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago, the headlines proclaimed a long-overdue moment
Artist talk, garden beers & chat on everything law and humanities. 30th of June, 5pm.This end-of-year event is jointly organised by LHub (Law and the Humanities Hub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, London) and the Legal Humanities Association. Join
The 21st century has transformed the courtroom: Hearings that once drowned in paper now unfold through digital files, video links, virtual hearings, appellate courts’ YouTube channels, livestreams, e‑filing, digital case management, online bundles, and predictive analytics. Cornelia Vismann once observed
