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In recent years, the relationship between intellectual property and capitalism has received growing interest from different disciplines, particularly economic history, law, sociology, politics, and science and technology studies. This workshop aims to bring together interdisciplinary scholarship which explores this relationship historically and across different political economic paradigms.The workshop invites reflections on the ways in which

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 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

In reading Oishik Sircar’s Violent Modernities I found something akin to a fortune cookie: wrapped in the wafer is a gift in the form of an implicit message. The medium of this message is Oishik’s style, citational practice, acknowledgments, footnotes of gratitude; his careful use of the first-person narrative that is persistently soul-searching and self-reflexive.