Multi- and inter-disciplinary research into the global dimensions of law and society
@QMSchoolofLaw
. Est. 2013. Partnered with The Institute of Law
@BirzeitU
The Dialectics of Democracy: Towards a Socialist Constitutionalism
We are launching this years LAW AND MARXISM book series with Dimitrios Kivotidis' new monograph, in conversation with Maria Tzanakopoulou, August Nimtz and Fernando Quintana.
Register here
// LAW AND MARXISM: SPEAKER SERIES //
We are delighted to have
@pashukanist
deliver the inaugural lecture for our new speaker series with his talk 'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
Hold the date: 12/12/22, 5.30-7pm
Tickets available soon
// LAW AND MARXISM: SPEAKER SERIES //
Excited to be launching this new series with
@pashukanist
and his talk 'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
// PASHUKANIS
@100
//
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Pashukanis' 'General Theory of Law and Marxism', a group of marxist legal scholars are organising a number of events and activities over the year.
Keep checking out here for more details:
Our colleague Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian has been arrested and is being investigated for incitement to violence and terrorism for speaking out against genocide in Gaza.
Our 2023 Annual Lecture will be delivered by Prof. Tshepo Madlingozi
@CALS_ZA
"A Century after the Pan-African Congress, London: Pan-Africanism and the Making of Black Inter-national Constitution(s)"
Register here:
Staff
@qmul
have written a letter defending our colleague Prof. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, who was arrested in Israel & subject to inhuman treatment. Addressed to the VC, it asks him to condemn the arrest and suspend QM's partnership w/ Hebrew University
// PASHUKANIS
@100
//
To celebrate 100 years of Pashukanis' 'A General Theory of Law and Marxism', we are co-hosting a 2 day in-person workshop.
Register for both days here
Keep up to date with future events related to the series
CfP: Law, Society, and Inequality
w/keynote speaker is Professor Sally Sheldon
Please submit abstracts (up to 500
words) to qmul.lsi
@gmail
.com by 15 February 2023.
We were delighted to have
@pashukanist
launch our Law and Marxism: Speaker Series with his talk 'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
The recording of the lecture is here
Prof
@TshepoMadlingo1
@CALS_ZA
will deliver our 2023 Annual Lecture titled 'A Century after Pan-African Congress, London: Pan-Africanism and the Making of Black Inter-national Constitution(s)'
Register here:
THE LAW AND MARXISM SERIES:
Event 1: BOOK DISCUSSION- Global Justice and Social Conflict: The Foundations of Liberal Order w/ the author
@TarikKochi
joined by
@CSchwobelPatel
and
@KellyJoBluen
Register here:
//] LAW AND MARXISM: SPEAKER SERIES //
Excited to be launching this new series THIS WEEK with
@pashukanist
and his talk 'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
You can still get tickets here
We are delighted to announce that our co-director
@enanopoulos
has been awarded the Leverhulme Fellowship for her project 'A Decolonial Legal History of Sanctions.'
// LAW AND MARXISM: SPEAKER SERIES //
Excited to be launching this new series on Monday with
@pashukanist
and his talk 'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
A few extra tickets are available here
Warm congrats to our co-director Isobel Roele, and our former colleague
@DrJessieHohmann
, for winning a
@ModernLRev
conference grant on 'Mapping the Material Turn for International Law: Transformative Agendas and Disciplinary Boundaries'.
Our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury recently reviewed
@BerihunGebeye
's new book 'A Theory Of African Consitutionalism' for Jurisprudence. You can read it here.
11 October: *Oceans as Sites of Global Dis/Ordering* with
@SurabhiRanganat
&
@renisamawani
.
Which legal and political temporalities, geographies, and subjectivities might ‘thinking oceanically’ generate?
For more details and (wonderful!) resources:
"THE TEMPORALITIES OF LAW"
For those of you in New York City, the Racial Justice Project
@NYLawSchool
is hosting this event with our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury and
@ZinaidaMiller
// LAW AND MARXISM: SPEAKER SERIES //
We are delighted to have
@pashukanist
deliver the inaugural lecture for our new speaker series with his talk 'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
Tickets available here
// LAW AND MARXISM: SPEAKER SERIES //
Excited to be launching this new series with
@pashukanist
and his talk 'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
Register here
Our 2023 Annual Lecture will be delivered by Prof
@TshepoMadlingo1
@CALS_ZA
"A Century after Pan-African Congress, London: Pan-Africanism and the Making of Black Inter-national Constitution(s)"
Register here:
Great episode by
@BorderlineJuris
with
@ntinatzouvala
on what thinking critically means in law/jurisprudence (and juxtaposing this to analytical legal philosohy), the political economy and contingent boundaries of disciplines and much more.
Our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury will be joining
@pashukanist
as new members of the editorial collective over
@form_legal
Also check out the latest post there by
@CSchwobelPatel
and her response to the symposium on her book
BOOK DISCUSSION: Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge
We are delighted to be joined by the author
@folukeifejola
with discussants
@KatieBales2
and Dr Beth Kamunge-Kpodo
Register here
Our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury will be on two panels
@law_soc
The first 'Temporality, (In)justice and the law' will also include our own and brilliant
@fletcher_ruth
The second 'Decolonising Public Law' will also have the superb
@TshepoMadlingo1
as discusant
#LSA2022
// PASHUKANIS
@100
//
To celebrate 100 years of Pashukanis' 'A General Theory of Law and Marxism', we are co-hosting a 2 day in-person workshop.
Register for both days here
Keep up to date with future events related to the series
CfP- Pashukanis
@100
: Univerisidad de Humano Cristano
Continuing our centenary celebration of The General Theory of Law and Marxism, we are working with University De Humano Cristano (Chile) to issue this call for papers.
Read more details here
CfP- Pashukanis & Critique of Right in the Twenty First Century.
Continuing our Pashukanis
@100
, our colleagues at the University of Lund are organising this 2 day conference.
Our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury has a paper forthcoming in the Spring 2024 volume
@JournLawSociety
titled 'Executive Robbery: UK Public Law, 'Race' and regimes of dispossession in the Chagos Archipelago'
'The Non-Human turn in law'
We are delighted to be co-hosting this international colloquium organised by our fantastic colleague
@AlvarezNakagawa
Register here
Delighted & honoured that Jennifer Pitts will be giving our Annual Lecture
@clsgcQM
@QMSchoolofLaw
on 15 January: 'The Society of Nations, Imperialism, and the Color Line: Three Conceptions of the International'. Chaired by Richard Bourke. Register here:
If you belong to this select group of people who think that $110 is too much for a book, but $88 is just the right price, this discount flyer for my book is THE thing for you.
**WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!**
If you are researching on Marxist approaches to Law (broadly understood), we would love to here from you- esepcially if you are from the Global South.
Send an email to both e.nanopoulos
@qmul
AND tanzil.chowdhury
@qmul
.ac.uk
#LawAndMarxismQMUL
Fantastic paper by
@ntinatzouvala
@pashukanist
on how Bolshevik theories imperialism illustrated the limits of Wilsonian self-determination and IL with fascinating explorations of the Congress of the Peoples of the East and the CRC.
A must read
An important, wonderful new book by our friend
@rose_parfitt_
if interested in international law, historiography, inequality, and resistance don't miss it
Very warm congrats to Renisa Mawani
@renisamawani
and join us for a symposium on the book on 3 March with a super panel including Luis Eslava
@l_eslava
Surabhi Ranganathan
@SurabhiRanganat
Laleh Khalili
@LalehKhalili
Stewart Motha and Simon Layton
Congratulations to
@renisamawani
! Her book, Across Oceans of Law, is a finalist for the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize from the Socio-Legal Studies Association
@SLSA_UK
! Read the intro to the book here:
We are thrilled to announce that Professor Lorraine Daston will be giving our 2021 Cotterrell Lecture in Sociological Jurisprudence
@QMSchoolofLaw
The interview below highlights Professor Daston's new project on the history of rules. See also:
"It was Ian Hacking’s 'The Emergence of Probability' that changed my path — literally overnight."
@LAReviewofBooks
interviews Lorraine Daston on the history of calculation, emergences of formal rationality, & the importance of interdisciplinarity
#histsci
In this blog post, our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury explains some of the claims of his forthcoming paper for
@JournLawSociety
titled '‘Executive robbery’: UK public law, ‘race’, and ‘regimes of dispossession’ in the Chagos Archipelago'
Givens of Global Data - CLSGC Annual Lecture on 20 November 2019. This indicates what I’m going to be talking about. If you’re in London, feel free to stop by and say hello.
In her lecture this Wednesday, Fleur Johns will also address the implications of her research for our three thematic concerns: time and place; power and capital; aesthetics and materiality. Thank you
@FleurEJ
for engaging, these kinds of dialogue are invaluable!
Our co-director Eva Nanopoulos discusses her recently published edited collection, Marxism and the Capitalist State, with Rafael Khachaturian
@rafkhach
and Rob Hunter
@selfactingmule
// PASHUKANIS
@100
//
To celebrate 100 years of Pashukanis' 'A General Theory of Law and Marxism', we are co-hosting a 2 day in-person workshop.
We have a brilliant line up of speakers too!
Register for both days here
Our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury will today be joining a fantastic group of academics today to discuss 'Capital, Law and Resistance: Between Abolition and Critique'
@SussexGlobal
// PASHUKANIS
@100
//
To celebrate 100 years of Pashukanis' 'A General Theory of Law and Marxism', we are co-hosting a 2 day in-person workshop on 11 and 12 Jan.
Register for both days here
// CALLING ALL LEGAL SECTOR WORKERS //
Our Centre &
@NotesFrom_Below
are inviting UK legal sector workers to write about the organisation and class composition of their work.
New writers encouraged to apply and grants will be provided.
Read more here:
Next in THE LAW AND MARXISM SERIES, we will also be hosting
@maia_pal
and her book 'Jurisdictional Accumulation' with discussants Prof Claire Cutler and Prof Benno Teschke on 22nd March, 5pm (GMT)
Register here:
#LawAndMarxismQMUL
BOOK DISCUSSION: Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge
We are delighted to be joined by the author
@folukeifejola
with discussants
@KatieBales2
and Dr Beth Kamunge-Kpodo
Register here
//LAW AND MARXISM SERIES//
We are continuing our book discussions with
@CSchwobelPatel
'Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law' with some amazing discussants.
#LawAndMarxismQMUL
Next week we launch our LAW AND MARXISM SERIES with a discussion of "Global Justice and Social Conflict: The Foundations of Liberal Order". Join author
@TarikKochi
with discussants
@CSchwobelPatel
and
@KellyJoBluen
Register here:
📢📢THE LAW AND MARXISM SERIES📢📢
We'll be hosting
@maia_pal
and her book 'Jurisdictional Accumulation' with discussants Prof Claire Cutler and Prof Benno Teschke on 22nd March, 5pm (GMT). Register here:
#LawAndMarxismQMUL
Our Centre co-director Tanzil Chowdhury will be joining a fantastic group of speakers for this week long conference on Constitutionalizing in the Anthropocene
@TilburgLaw
We have four roundtables discussing how globalization and the Anthropocene have unsettled/ impacted/ resonated with theoretical registers and conceptual and methodological tools that are central for making sense of socio-legal phenomena, processes, and institutions.
**FORTHCOMING CENTRE EVENTS**
'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
'Rules: A Short History of What We Live By'
"Once again — "Where are the women?"
We are delighted to have Prof
@TshepoMadlingo1
@CALS_ZA
deliver our 2023 Annual Lecture titled 'A Century after Pan-African Congress, London: Pan-Africanism and the Making of Black Inter-national Constitution(s)'
Register here:
Our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury will be joining a set of fantastic speakers to discuss 'Law and Class in the 21st Century' on the 14 and 15 December.
Get in touch with
@m_clark5
for details on how to join.
very excited to announce the apls 'law and class' conference draft program is out happening on 14-15 december. If you/your comrades are keen to come (in person or online), please get in touch with me or the other organisers
@ntinatzouvala
@Dylan_Lino
@EddieSynot
and Coel Kirkby
20 new Lectureships in Humanities & the Social Sciences available
@QMUL
- apps welcome in all areas of HSS, incl all areas of law. If you're interested in multi & inter-disciplinary research on law & society in a global context get in touch with us
@clsgcQM
@QMSchoolofLaw
Our co-director Tanzil Chowdhury joined others
@ICON__S
to discuss
@ntinatzouvala
's book Capitalism as Civilisation and how this work might be useful for public lawyers and those working on intersections of Law and Marxism
This month, we are also very lucky to be hosting Fleur Johns, who will be giving our annual lecture 'On Data: Givens of Global Law' on the 20th of November. Join us!
🚨Next Thursday 5.30pm🚨
The EU Law + the Critique of Capitalism series continues w Eva Nanopoulos presenting a "Road Map to a Marxist History and Theory of EU Law" (
@clsgcQM
) + Michael Wilkinson (
@LSELaw
) as discussant.
Read the abstract and register now:
***EXCEPT PALESTINE***
Traditions of solidarity in Tower Hamlets and beyond
Hear from activists and writers about the rich local histories of solidarity with Palestinian liberation.
Sign up here
// WG HART WORKSHOP 2024 CfP // Historicising Jurisprudence: Person, Community, Form
Our collague Maks Del Mar is co-organising this workshop. Details here:
Really delighted to share the news that Roxana Banu is joining us
@QMSchoolofLaw
as a Lecturer in Private International Law. Watch this space for more theory & history of private international law () including feminist approaches:
//LAW AND MARXISM SERIES//
We are continuing our book discussions with
@CSchwobelPatel
'Marketing Global Justice: The Political Economy of International Criminal Law' with some amazing discussants.
#LawAndMarxismQMUL
BOOK DISCUSSION: Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia
We are delighted to welcome author Dr Priyasha Saksena
@Law_Leeds
discuss her new book, in conversation with
@Dimitri_VdM
Register here:
We are getting ready for a wonderful conversation with Jessica Whyte about her new book: 'The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism' going all the way back to the 1940s and up to the present. A real treat!
// BOOK DISCUSSION //
Towers of Ivory, Towers of Steel: Israeli Universities and the Apartheid System
@mayaywind
.
Learn how Israeli universities serve as pillars of Israel's system of oppression against Palestinians.
Sign up here
// LAW AND MARXISM: SPEAKER SERIES //
We are delighted to have
@pashukanist
deliver the inaugural lecture for our new speaker series with his talk 'Taking Capital's Laws of Motion Seriously: Marxism, Law and Capitalism'
Tickets available here
We are excited to see this brilliant new book by one of our directors
@enanopoulos
'The Juridification of Individual Sanctions and the Politics of EU Law'.