Environmental Law and the Unsustainability of Sustainable Development: A Tale of Disenchantment and of Hope [0.03%]
环境法与可持续发展的不可持续性：一篇关于幻灭和希望的故事
Louis J Kotzé,Sam Adelman
Louis J Kotzé
In this article we argue that sustainable development is not a socio-ecologically friendly principle. The principle, which is deeply embedded in environmental law, policymaking and governance, drives environmentally destructive neoliberal e...
André Dao,Danish Sheikh
André Dao
This is an account of a reading project that began in February 2020. Australia was burning, a pandemic was simmering, the two of us were early in our PhD journeys at the Melbourne Law School. Already, we felt exhausted by critical theory wh...
Racial Capitalism and the Dialectics of Development: Exposing the Limits and Lies of International Economic Law [0.03%]
种族资本主义与发展辩证法：揭露国际经济法的局限性和谎言
Mohsen Al Attar,Claire Smith
Mohsen Al Attar
International economic law is peculiar. It claims universal character, yet eschews engagement with many, if not all, the racialised features of the global political economy. Its scholars mostly ignore imperialism, colonialism, and capitalis...
Brenna Bhandar
Brenna Bhandar
In this article the author examines Fitzpatrick's foundational critique of liberal legality and racism, a theme which remained central to his decades-long excavation of modern law's self-identity. After considering Fitzpatrick's 'separation...
Elena Loizidou
Elena Loizidou
Michel Foucault's modes of power (sovereign, disciplinary and bio-politics) have dominated both our understanding of power and norm. It is pretty impossible to think of the organisation of life outside his thinking. Here I argue that the id...
The New Common [0.03%]
新共识
Stephanie Jones
Stephanie Jones
This article describes a personal relationship to a common green space in a town in the United Kingdom during the lockdowns prompted by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020-21. It considers the new meanings that are attaching to 'commons' as conce...
Stewart Motha
Stewart Motha
The space, work, and pedagogy of universities have undergone rapid and unprecedented change during the Covid pandemic. These developments have been heralded as marking the emergence of a 'new normal'. Reflecting on the unique aspirations an...
A Farewell to Homo Sacer? Sovereign Power and Bare Life in Agamben's Coronavirus Commentary [0.03%]
再见 Homo Sacer？阿甘本关于新冠病毒的评论中的主权权力与赤裸生命
Sergei Prozorov
Sergei Prozorov
The article addresses Giorgio Agamben's critical commentary on the global governance of the Covid-19 pandemic as a paradigm of his political thought. While Agamben's comments have been criticized as exaggerated and conspiratorial, they aris...
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
This is an entry into a collective journal of the twenty-first century years of plague. It introduces the notion of 'lawfare' by way of the contemporary case concerning Lula da Silva and Brazil's fall from grace. The latter is presented as ...
Kathleen Birrell,Daniel Matthews
Kathleen Birrell