'Parody Alternative Judgment: For Women Scotland [2025]' by Emily Grabham Following the Supreme Court’s decision in the For Women case last week [For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers], colleagues thought it would help to have a case summary for use in making sense of the

Brilliant parody/sampling of the For Women judgment - trying to make sense of its incoherence: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/05/01/par…

'The Pulse of Resistance: Beating Beneath Black Veils' by Behnaz Amani. The Iranian slogan ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ is one of the most beautiful and inspiring mottos of a movement we have heard in ages. Some might think it’s over and the state has won in #Iran. Still, I stand

CfP: Disarmament from the Margins At a time when the foundations of the international legal system are fracturing and the outlook for disarmament progress may look bleak, how can communities, activists and scholars gather to resist and reenergise? This conference seeks to

We have two brilliant posts coming this week on fascist regime in the US. First up Aoife O'Donoghue and Ruth Houghton: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/06/02/pro…

Delighted that the second piece on contemporary fascism is from Brian Massumi: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/06/03/som…

'Project 2025 and Manifestos for Undemocracy' by Aoife O'Donoghue and Ruth Houghton A manifesto was instrumental in the formation of the constitutional democracy that was the United States of America, and we are currently witnessing its (re)inception as an undemocracy through

'Some Points about Contemporary Fascism' by Brian Massumi We are delighted to repost Brian Massumi’s latest essay, first published on his new Substack. The maturation of the modern nation-state coincided with a progressive becoming-immanent of power to the social field.

'Tony Blair Will Not Save Us from Climate Hysteria' by Andreas Kotsakis During the climate summits In the sterile corridors of climate summits, numbers drift like ghostly apparitions. Worrying numbers. Disturbing numbers. 1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C. 36.8 gigatonnes of CO2 released

"Humiliation by Design: The Legal Aesthetics of Marginalisation" by Fabio Macioce. In liberal democracies, we are often told that law is blind to appearance. Yet, the opposite is often true. Public law and policy repeatedly mobilise aesthetic categories—such as decorum, decency,

We are excited to have the following piece by Iranian theorist Parviz Sedaghat,[1] translated into English by Leila Faghfouri Azar and first published in Farsi in pecritique.com. Israel’s Military Aggression against Iran: Some preliminary reflections 1) Israel’s

Closing date for the CLC is the 31st of July. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/06/25/cfp…

'Illegality and Law-full-ness', by Stacy Douglas A week before the 13th Berlin Biennale’s opening in June 2025, a social media account took to criticizing Biennale curator Zasha Colah’s contention, made in a recently published interview, that “there is no censorship in

'How to Reanimate Rotting Brains in the Age of AI' by Tim Christaens As artificial intelligence (AI) seeps into our daily lives, its impact on our thinking capacities is becoming increasingly clear. AI is replacing our jobs, increasing government and corporate surveillance, and

'No Hearing, No Harm? Rethinking Jurisdiction and Protection in UAE v Sudan' by Parthiban babu and Sai Ramani Garimella On 5 May 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) removed the case of UAE v Sudan from its docket, declaring it “manifest” that it lacked jurisdiction