Critical Legal Thinking

Dear Reader,The Queer Judgments Project is an initiative that evolved from disparate conversations between the current co-editors about how legal judgments related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and sex characteristics could have been written in different terms in light of relevant legal frameworks. This project brings together friends, colleagues, scholars, and activists who

Following the theme, Surf ‘n’ Turf: Critical Laws of the Land and Sea, the Critical Legal Conference (CLC) 2025 at the University of Exeter offers an opportunity to interrogate the dynamic interplay between land and sea within the context of critical legal thought. Inspired by the coastal landscape of Devon and Cornwall, this year’s theme

While Kantian’s are concerned with duties, Aristotelians with human flourishing and consequentialists with aggregating value, Simone Weil’s central concern is the distance that separates us. Naturally, she has much to say about duties and human flourishing, but these matters, for her, are located downstream from greatest philosophical puzzle: how is it possible for two free

“Yes, and here’s to the fewWho forgive what you doAnd the fewer who don’t even care”Leonard Cohen, Night Comes OnWhen a human being is attached to another by a bond of affection which contains any degree of necessity, it is impossible that he should wish autonomy to be preserved both in himself and in the other.

Two mothers read a letter. One knows how to read and the other doesn’t. The mother who knows how to read reads and then faints. ‘Until the day she dies her eyes, her mouth, and her movements will never again be the same.’[1] The words ‘strik[e] her mind, immediately as a brute fact… Everything

University of Derby,April 24th to April 25th, 2025;The MCCT is an annual interdisciplinary conference that provides a forum for emergent critical scholarship, broadly construed. The conference is free for all to attend and follows a non-hierarchical model that seeks to foster opportunities for intellectual critical exchanges where all are treated equally regardless of affiliation or

Heaps of ruining textiles lie in a clothing graveyard (Figure 1).  The items, made through significant effort and environmental cost and then abandoned, imply a decadence to c21 consumer capitalism.  Codes, diligence plans and disclosures by the companies grow in reach and complexity, after the optimism of governance, but still the ruin rises. Such is the image of

Yet always there is another life,A life beyond this present knowing,A life lighter than this present splendor – Wallace Stevens, ‘The Sail of Ulysses’It is the condition of the critical theorist to be constantly attuned to unnecessary suffering and injustice and yet to hold steadfastly to the promise of things being otherwise. Sometimes the weight of