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New Garda powers bill could conceal abuses Gardaí can consistently deny racial profiling because there is no data on who is stopped and searched — but the new powers bill doesn't allow this data to be collected. Why, asks Cian Ó Concubhair

Brilliant, sharp incisive criticism of the new Garda Powers Bill from Cian Ó Concubhair: the absence of explicit powers to record racial data in particular is such an important point: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

A wonderful way to remember the work and intellectual contribution of Emilios, who sadly passed away this week. The entire Legal Theory community in Edinburgh mourns the loss of an incredibly kind colleague and friend, who will be sorely missed.

Emilios has gone way too soon. I have very warm memories of the many encounters with him, either in the Old College or on the basketball court. When Emilios was in the room, you couldn't not notice him. My love to his family and many, many friends

Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios

Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law.
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Tear Gas Is Way More Dangerous Than Police Let On In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surf...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control.

“It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

CLC 2026: Protocols: Infrastructures of the Normative

Very excited for the next Critical Legal Conference, this year being hosted by Westminster Uni. We have this teaser of the theme: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/02/03/c...

Normopathy Today: Norms Behaving Badly It is clear now, one-year into the second coming of Donald Trump, that the normative international order in place since World War II has been breached.

So excited to be republishing Brian Massumi's most recent post on affective politics in the US, in particular focusing in on norms - so particularly important for a critical legal audience: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/29/n...

Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper  Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally

Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...

Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper  Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally

Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...

Analysing the Iranian Uprising: Costas Douzinas interviews Leila Faghfouri Azar This interview, conducted by Professor Costas Douzains for the Greek weekly newspaper  Epohi, features Dr. Leila Faghfouri Azar and was originally

Next up on critical legal thinking is this brilliant interview with Leila Faghfouri Azar on the current Iranian uprising. I think its a really helpful explainer of the currents and dynamics of the violence criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/28/a...

One’s own morality as the highest court: A variation on Hegel’s concept of international law Whether international law constitutes an independent legal domain endowed with sanctioning power with regard to its subjects is a question that has

Now for something slightly different: Hegel on international law, intervention, war criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/26/o...

Iran’s Uprising: Between Clerical Violence and Neo-colonial Aggression None The beginning of 2026 marked yet another human tragedy for Iranian society. In January, hundreds of thousands of Iranian protesters took to the

Next up in the Critical Legal Thinking series on neo-imperialism and the brutal and slow collapse of American hegemony is Shahin Nasiri, exploring the current round of protests in Iran and the way they are situated geopolitically: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/21/i...

Greenland and the Spectre of Dispossession When it came to grabbing territory, the British had effective techniques by the 1960s. Morning-tea at Downing Street could accomplish what a U.S

Continuing our series, today Stewart Motha explores the relations of dispossession and colonisation in the scramble for Greenland: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/20/g...

CLG Place The site is a place for the sharing of scholarship in the field of critical legal geography. Through a directory of scholars and information about publications, events and research networks, the site ...

We are excited to announce Elisa Loncón Antileo and Nicholas Blomley as our keynote speakers for the Second International Conference of Critical Legal Geography. Learn more about these great leaders on our conference page @ www.clg.place

Greenland between a Rock and a Hard Place Amid US President Trump’s looming take-over of Greenland and attempted coercion of Western allies to agree to this, Western liberal international lawyers

Continuing our series on contemporary US aggression, Christine Schwobel Patel explores the Greenland crisis: criticallegalthinking.com/2026/01/19/g...

Four pedestrian desire lines. One zebra crossing. 👇

Why do you suppose Galway City Council is so uninterested in enabling foot traffic, @illanwall.bsky.social @kleyden.bsky.social?

They have an Active Travel team, with a bunch of "strategies" lining their shelves.

What's their problem?

Is Galway hostile to pedestrians? There’s a video doing the rounds on social media of someone driving through Galway in 1965. The car drives along Bridge Street and Mainguard Street, before turning onto Shop street.

Excellent piece by @illanwall.bsky.social on how Galway is screaming out for better walking instastructure - crossing the road can not be that hard - can it?
www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

@illanwall.bsky.social is right.

It should be noted, however, that a hierarchy of measures favouring active travel in general has allegedly been official City Council policy for many years. There were TWO walking & cycling strategies published before the #GalwayTransportStrategy arrived in 2016.

Always repost Paul Robeson singing I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night to Scottish coal miners.

Whatever this is, it is not genuine protest!

The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibil...

Anyone who would like to write something on his work, please let me know and we will do a series on critical legal thinking to mark his passing.

www.routledge.com/The-Ethics-o...

The Ethics of Justice Without Illusions The founding premise of this book is that the nimbus of prestige, which once surrounded the idea of justice, has now been dimmed to such a degree that it is no longer sufficient to secure the possibil...

Ive just heard the incredibly sad news that Louis Wolcher has died. His work focused on that ethical turn in critical legal studies, he worked with Wittgenstein, Derrida, Levinas, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Zen Buddhism. He wrote extensively, and very beautifully on suffering.

NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital

More evidence that the UK Government not only forgets that NI exists, it also forgets that the Common Travel Area exists. This is just a remarkable story of benefits being withdrawn from hundreds of families for using the CTA amid a performative benefit crackdown:

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Scenes of Disappearance The podcast explores the disappearance of 43 students in Mexico, and the Ayotzinapa Protests which have unfolded over the last decade.

Have a listen to this brilliant podcast from one of my former students: Renato Urtus uastegui soundcloud.com/user-5172277...

I hate so much of what happens in my country that I have to remind myself that on the odd occasion magic happens

Tenant awarded €23,000 after discrimination and victimisation The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.

The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) has awarded €23,000 to a tenant who experienced discrimination and victimisation from his former landlords.

Have you read the latest issue of the ICLQ?

All articles are fully #OpenAccess.

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My article on how British police monitor social tensions and surveil communities to ensure they don’t protest is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Palestine Action's civil disobedience overwhelming London police With Palestine Action a proscribed terrorist organisation in the UK, a September protest attended by 1,500 people meant the Met was unable to arrest them all, showing the limits of the criminal justic...

"There are few more serious and consequential charges than terrorism. Even if protestors avoid jail, a successful prosecution for terrorist offences is likely to hover over them for years to come".

@illanwall.bsky.social in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social

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