Critical Legal Thinking https://criticallegalthinking.com/ Law and the Political Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:00:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/criticallegalthinking.b-cdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/cropped-CLT_logo_ICON-512_512_trransparent.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Critical Legal Thinking https://criticallegalthinking.com/ 32 32 16005102 New Translation of Pashukanis: The Right of Asylum and the Practice of Bourgeois Governments https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/14/new-translation-of-pashukanis-the-right-of-asylum-and-the-practice-of-bourgeois-governments/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/14/new-translation-of-pashukanis-the-right-of-asylum-and-the-practice-of-bourgeois-governments/#respond Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:24:00 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41999 Introductory Note by Igor Shoikhedbrod E.B. Pashukanis (1891-1937) is best known for his General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), where he offered an original account of the genesis of the legal form under generalized conditions of capitalist commodity exchange and explained the reasons for its necessary disappearance under fully developed communism. Until recently,[1] Pashukanis’ reputation as the […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/14/new-translation-of-pashukanis-the-right-of-asylum-and-the-practice-of-bourgeois-governments/feed/ 0 41999 Call for Expressions of Interest: The Future of Good Decisions – Live Action Role Play https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/13/call-for-expressions-of-interest-the-future-of-good-decisions-live-action-role-play/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/13/call-for-expressions-of-interest-the-future-of-good-decisions-live-action-role-play/#respond Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:13:00 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=42003 Deadline for Expression of Interest: 24th April 2026 The Future of Good Decisions project is seeking expressions of interest for participation in a live action role play (LARP). A LARP is a form of game where participants play characters and interact to pursue goals within a fictional setting. There are no lines to learn, and […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/13/call-for-expressions-of-interest-the-future-of-good-decisions-live-action-role-play/feed/ 0 42003 Crimmigration and the Ontology of Guilt: On Subjectivity and the Negation of Law https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/13/crimmigration-and-the-ontology-of-guilt-on-subjectivity-and-the-negation-of-law/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/13/crimmigration-and-the-ontology-of-guilt-on-subjectivity-and-the-negation-of-law/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:15:00 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41994 The contemporary figure of the foreigner is not judged for what they do, but for the fact of who they are. In regimes of crimmigration, guilt no longer follows the act—it precedes it. It attaches to presence, to mobility, to the mere fact of inhabiting without prior authorization. What emerges is not simply a transformation […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/13/crimmigration-and-the-ontology-of-guilt-on-subjectivity-and-the-negation-of-law/feed/ 1 41994 The abuse of UK anti-terror laws to proscribe direct action protest: The case of Palestine Action  https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/10/the-abuse-of-uk-anti-terror-laws-to-proscribe-direct-action-protest-the-case-of-palestine-action/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/10/the-abuse-of-uk-anti-terror-laws-to-proscribe-direct-action-protest-the-case-of-palestine-action/#respond Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:13:41 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41989 The 13 February 2026 decision of the High Court inHuda Ammori v Secretary of State for the Home Department that the Home Secretary’s decision to proscribe Palestine Action was unlawful, provides a fascinating insight into the abuse of UK counterterrorism laws by public authorities to stifle legitimate dissent in the longstanding struggle to end international crimes in Palestine. […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/10/the-abuse-of-uk-anti-terror-laws-to-proscribe-direct-action-protest-the-case-of-palestine-action/feed/ 0 41989 Defending Animal Rescue as a Moral Injury to a Relational Self https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/08/defending-animal-rescue-as-a-moral-injury-to-a-relational-self/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/08/defending-animal-rescue-as-a-moral-injury-to-a-relational-self/#respond Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:20:12 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41981 As individuals participating in the open rescue of animals increasingly adopt strategies of civil disobedience and “voluntary prosecution,” courts are pressed to adjudicate the definition of intent itself within an anthropocentric legal structure that excludes animals from moral and juridical standing. These cases reveal the limits of existing legal categories including an animal’s right not […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/04/08/defending-animal-rescue-as-a-moral-injury-to-a-relational-self/feed/ 0 41981 Learning to be Surprised (Symposium) https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/31/learning-to-be-surprised-symposium/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/31/learning-to-be-surprised-symposium/#comments Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:23:00 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41953 Val was a proper old-school scholar, interested in ideas for their own sake and driven to understand and respond to the injustices of the world. As a serious intellectual she was not interested in academic trends or popularity, but in working through a set of questions and problems – often with cigarette in hand. As […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/31/learning-to-be-surprised-symposium/feed/ 1 41953 The Wrong of Law and Marx’s Second Secret (Symposium) https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/30/the-wrong-of-law-and-marxs-second-secret-symposium/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/30/the-wrong-of-law-and-marxs-second-secret-symposium/#respond Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:20:00 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41949 I feel honored to have been invited to comment on Valerie Kerruish’s The Wrong of Law, a book bringing a great range of methodological approaches to bear on a problematic of great interest to me. The book’s focal point is the self-seriousness of legal discourse. It is a constitutive feature of law that it ‘thinks itself […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/30/the-wrong-of-law-and-marxs-second-secret-symposium/feed/ 0 41949 Surprising Law (Symposium) https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/27/surprising-law/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/27/surprising-law/#respond Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:17:00 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41944 In one of the moving tributes to Valerie Kerruish posted on Critical Legal Thinking[1] shortly after her passing away, Emilios Christidoulidis wrote that “(h)er magnum opus The Wrong of Law, which she spent the last two decades of her life writing, remains devastatingly unfinished.” Its publication[2], with so much love and care besorgt by Uwe Petersen, will not change this, except […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/27/surprising-law/feed/ 0 41944 The Foundational Wrong of Law (Symposium) https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/26/symposium-the-wrong-of-law/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/26/symposium-the-wrong-of-law/#respond Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:33:00 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41929 Stephen Connelly There is an implicit assumption in jurisprudential reasoning that this reason, as form, is without inconsistency. Error is procedural: it results either from misrecognition of the ‘true’ law, from ignorance of the true facts, or from misapplication of the law to the facts. The practical syllogism is itself unassailable; what is wrong in the law […]

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]]> https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/26/symposium-the-wrong-of-law/feed/ 0 41929 The Vertigo of Self-Grounding (Symposium) https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/25/the-vertigo-of-self-grounding-symposium/ https://criticallegalthinking.com/2026/03/25/the-vertigo-of-self-grounding-symposium/#respond Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:14:00 +0000 https://criticallegalthinking.com/?p=41940 There is an image by M.C. Escher in which a staircase rises in perfect geometrical order, each step aligned, each angle exact — yet the ascent loops back upon itself. The movement is continuous, coherent, even rigorous; what unsettles is not disorder but correspondence. One climbs, and finds oneself where one began. In The Wrong of […]

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