‼️🎙️‼️Latest COUNTERSIGN podcast just dropped! #TshepoMadlingozi and I discuss failures of reconciliation and transformation in South Africa on 30th anniversary of TRC. countersignisapodcast.com

Latest COUNTERSIGN podcast now LIVE: 'Fukushima - the art of staying with the trouble', recorded at the Fukushima nuclear Exclusion Zone, Japan. I travelled to Fukushima in early February with art curator Jason Waite, and CHIM↑POM artist Motumo. countersignisapodcast.com

"sovereign over-reach exposes the vulnerabilities of legal and political systems, and barely covers the actual weaknesses of these rapacious states. The assertion of sovereign exceptionality is never the end of the matter" @stewartmotha.bsky.social criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...

Greenland and the Spectre of Dispossession

When it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S

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Recommend this piece by @stewartmotha.bsky.social, on the parallels between the Chagos islands and Greenland.

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STEWART MOTHA (stewartmotha.bsky.social) revisits the UK’s dispossession of the Chagossians as a cautionary tale for Greenland, where security narratives may enable a fragmented absorption of territory and distract from interconnected vulnerabilities. verfassungsblog.de/greenland-ch...

I really loved speakigg bf to @stewartmotha.bsky.social about my book on interception powers, legal materialities, media theory and more for his excellent Cointersign podcast. Now online here: countersignisapodcast.com

Countersign – A podcast

Countersign is a podcast hosted by Stewart Motha, Professor of Law at Birkbeck. Stewart and guests discuss books, films, and other materials from across disciplines to consider new perspectives on law...

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This is wonderful .., ‘AI is not inevitable’ … how and why to push back!!

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They called her a mad cat woman and tried to destroy her reputation. Then they dragged her through the courts and tried to destroy her life. But @carolecadwalla.bsky.social is standing tall and continues telling the inconvenient truth. A must see. youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/06/c...

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences

For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 is a judgment that has triggered great public discussion about the position of trans people in Great Britain (for an interesting discussion of…

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Thrilled that my article 'What is (the) Matter with Climate Litigation?' has been published Open Access in JLS: lnkd.in/gYCCiTck I contest several new materialist approaches, and discuss how law conceives of ‘matter’. It is the opening of a larger project on law & nature.

🚨🎙️With Trump’s chaos, ‘The Tyranny of the Deal’ podcast with Patricia J. Williams could not be more relevant!

Stewart Motha@stewartmotha.bsky.social · last yr.

Latest Countersign podcast with Patricia J. Williams – ‘The Tyranny of the Deal: Race, Contract, and the Spirit of the Law’ - is now Live! Listen where you get your podcasts (e.g. Apple podcasts, Spotify etc), or: countersignisapodcast.com

Latest Countersign podcast with Patricia J. Williams – ‘The Tyranny of the Deal: Race, Contract, and the Spirit of the Law’ - is now Live! Listen where you get your podcasts (e.g. Apple podcasts, Spotify etc), or: countersignisapodcast.com

I am at School of Law Gothenburg University to discuss climate justice and ecocide as part of annual Joakim Dungel Lecture alongside terrific speakers. www.gu.se/en/event/cli...

Climate Justice through International Courts: Examples from the Pacific and Ukraine

Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Joakim Dungel Lectures for International Justice.

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Countersign podcast, 'When the trees have gone'-Veraibari and the Pacific in the ICJ, with international lawyers, Fleur Ramsay and Watna Mori is now live. We consider impact of biodiversity loss on culture; and examine arguments at ICJ A.O. Wherever you get podcasts - lnkd.in/gqZTX4V4

Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh 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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Latest Countersign episode on Marlen Haushofer's 'The Wall' (1963) with Dr Anna Richards (Birkbeck) is Live! Delving into this deeply eco-feminist story - we explore ways of living and relating in catastrophic times. Countersign is available wherever you get podcast - or at lnkd.in/gqZTX4V4

Episode 163 just dropped and this week out co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @rickleephilos.bsky.social & @davidgunkel.bsky.social let their conversation about justice flow like a river! hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/epis...

Episode 163: Justice - Hotel Bar Podcast

The HBS hosts survey theories of justice from the ancients to the present.

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I was privileged to accompany Watna Mori & Fleur Ramsay to Veraibari, Papua New Guinea, as they prepared for this ICJ case last month. So much riding on ICJ Advisory Op - not least the futures of many island states, peoples, and cultures. Watch and share the video below. youtu.be/bYJzophZdgM?...

From Veraibari to The Hague: Frontline Communities Demanding Climate Justice

YouTube video by Nihi Indigenous Media

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I was listening again to the prescient analysis by Prof Patricia Williams of race in the U.S, and Donald Trump's use of rhetoric and images. See my 2020 interview of her for Countersign: countersignisapodcast.com/podcasts/cul... You can subscribe for free where you get podcasts

I’ve just visited Veraibari village (pop. 1000), Kikori River, Papua New Guinea, with Pacific lawyers preparing submissions to ICJ Advisory Op on Climate. This tattered house shows the force of climate devastation. Countersign podcast with lawyers Watna Mori & Fleur Ramsay to follow soon.