Second week on strike with UCU Edinburgh. We will be on strike for five weeks - taking out the entire first half of term, up to the first assessments - but we could be back in the classroom tomorrow if management withdrew the threat of compulsory redundancies.

Day 2 and the second keynote is underway: The brilliant @pashukanist.bsky.social on “Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law”

Here’s the first of a series of 10 blogs we’re doing this week for #SafeAbortionDay #Sept28 To call for more legal witnessing of soft law barriers to abortion care and challenge harmful exclusions and unworkable time limits dflw.ie/witnessing-l... Time to address failed EMA up against 12 weeks!

Witnessing legal implementation after #repealedthe8th: Soft law and the curious case of discontinuous care after a failed early medical abortion - Doing Feminist Legal Work

“It was like an epiphany. We just felt a weight lifted off us to know that there was even an option. They told me someone local to me where I could go and

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'In Disabling Capitalism, Chis crafts a ground-breaking anti-productivist, collectivist and disability abolitionist vision. It makes essential reading for our age of intensified capitalist disablement and precarious work' Arianna Introna (Open University) author of Crip Enchantments #AcademicChatter

For many academics in the UK, there are increasingly narrow career pathways - teaching only contracts or conducting 'strategic' research. In our latest dispatch, Eva Nanopoulos interrogates how the university's two-tier system reinforces precarity 

The Two-Tier University

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BIG NEWS 💥 We are excited and proud to announce the first keynote for our upcoming 11th conference: ROBERT KNOX (@pashukanist.bsky.social). Rob will be delivering a keynote talk titled 'Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law'.

What is the human impact of the current crisis in UK higher education? Bethan Evans draws from the experiences of academics with energy limiting conditions to show how universities function as an 'exhaustion economy' Check out the latest from our Dispatches series

The exhaustion economy: Seven illustrations of life at UK universities

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Fantastic work on protest and public order offences from my @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social colleagues www.theguardian.com/law/2026/may...

New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

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Plants against Property🌱 In our latest blog, @sarahkeenan.bsky.social explores how corporate risk, colonial histories and market logics shape land value - and how plants push back, forcing land to be used as a habitat & resource rather than a market commodity ccccjustice.org/2026/02/02/e...

Delighted to be welcoming Prof. Tony Anghie to offer Reflections on International Law in a Time of Disorder (introduced by Prof. Ratna Kapur)

Really pleased to advertise these 4 LSE postdocs in the history of popular government as part of our ERC Synergy Project "Popular Government in Global Perspective (POPGOV)"

LSE Department of Government@lsegovernment.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🔺We're #hiring. We are recruiting four #research #officers who will be part of the research project “Popular Government in Global Perspective” (POPGOV) co-led by Assistant Professor @brunoleipold.com. The positions are full time for a period of four years.👇🏾 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQZ727/r...

After a very successful launch of @cclas2025.bsky.social, join us for our first event discussing Michael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx' with @michaellazarus.bsky.social and our very own Fernando Quintana : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-la...

Michael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx

Book discussion organised by the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS)

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The @timeshighered.bsky.social has reported that @ewanmg.bsky.social and I have applied to the Certification Officer regarding concerns over the 2024 UCU general secretary election. UCU has characterised this as “smearing”, via a spokesperson. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/jo-grad... /1

Jo Grady’s UCU election win challenged over ‘unfair advantage’

Candidates who stood in 2024 poll seek rerun of campaign after claiming incumbent broke rules by using union resources

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Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law. criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...

Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil

In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios

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Thrilled to have received the updated paperback edition of *Human Shields*, including a new Preface and Epilogue about the use of human shields during the genocide in Gaza.

An amazing afternoon and evening, many thanks to all our speakers!

Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS)@cclas2025.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Thanks to everyone who spoke at and joined us for the launch of the CENTRE FOR THE CRITIQUE OF LAW AND SOCIETY. Follow us here and sign up to our CCLAS newsletter tinyurl.com/CCLASNEWSLET...

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’

Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’

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Solidarity to our partners (and all staff/students) @birzeit.bsky.social as Israeli forces storm their campus english.wafa.ps/Pages/Detail...

Join us in London on 23 January for the inaugural event of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society @qmul.bsky.social. With stellar speakers we reflect on the state of (legal) critique as we confront a world of "death and destruction without alibi". 👇👇👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-state-...

The State of Critique: CCLAS Launch

Join us to celebrate the launch of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context)

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‘protesters refusing food’ if only there was a phrase that captured this

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 10mo ago

David Lammy, the justice secretary, has refused to meet lawyers for eight protesters refusing food while they await trials scheduled for months away

I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.

Legal Form@legalform.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character. legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...

Thanks for writing for us, a great post!

Marie Thøgersen@mariethogersen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.

In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character. legalform.blog/2025/11/17/i...

International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen

‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…

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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure. Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation. www.podbean.com/media/share/...

Many thanks to @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social for putting together the Marxism and EU Law symposium. Good stuff, and long overdue. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

9/ It's 100 pages and around 60,000 words of Marxist analysis of the EU. We hope that it signals a break from the past, by introducing ideas and authors that offer a challenge to the very precepts of EU law. Read the full symposium here 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #EULaw #Marxism

3/ The centrepiece of the symposium is a 24,000 word programmatice article laying the groundwork for future approaches to EU law by me, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

2/ Our introduction reflects on why Marxism has largely been absent from EU law: 🔹 EU law is often framed as technocratic & consensual, not as a site of class struggle 🔹 The field is unusually supportive of the European project, with limited critical approaches www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New symposium out now🎉 Edited by @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social + me in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social seeks to introduce Marxist approaches to EU law scholarship. Read now 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🧵 (1/9) A thread on the symposium (please share!)

This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever. This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.

Politics Theory Other@poltheoryother.bsky.social · last yr.

📢🇵🇸NEW EPISODE 📢🇵🇸 - @rafeefz.bsky.social, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Adam Hanieh on their new book, 'Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine': podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...