Extract from Roger Cotterrell’s ‘Afterword: Trust and Critique after Three Decades’ in Critical Trusts Law: Reading Roger Cotterrell, eds Nick Piška and Hayley Gibson, available fair access from COUNTERPRESS.‘Power, Property and the Law of Trusts: A Partial Agenda for Critical Legal Scholarship’ was written in the mid-1980s when the American critical legal studies (CLS) movement was…

It was a pleasure reading Oishik Sircar’s “Violent Modernities”, which is an excellent and essential read for anyone interested in a broader understanding of constitution, law, rights, citizenship and the postcolonial state. Although the focus of the book is on India, many of the critique offered in this book may equally apply to other postcolonial…

The Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent is pleased to announce its Annual Lecture, to be held on Tuesday 26 November at 6pm. This event is open to all and no registration is required. Professor Costas Douzinas will be speaking on ‘States of Exception and Resistance’. The event will be held at the Wigoder Moot…

‘The State of Tuvalu (…) shall remain in perpetuity in the future, notwithstanding the impacts of climate change (…) resulting in loss to the physical territory of Tuvalu.’ (2023 constitution of Tuvalu)Tuvalu’s constitutional commitment to Sovereignty in the face of sea-level rise reflects the stakes that international law addresses: real, tangible, and existential, and intertwined…

It is a quiet Saturday morning in Victoria BC, and I find myself sitting at the kitchen table, Oishik Sircar’s book Violent Modernities: Cultural Lives of Law in the New India open in front of me.  It is a beautiful book, one whose insights continue to linger with me.  It is unconventional in some ways,…