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Stewart Motha

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Professor of Law, Birkbeck, Uni of London / podcaster Countersign: https://countersignisapodcast.com/ Profile image by Cheyenne Abel

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β€˜AI is not inevitable’ … how and why to push back!!

03.06.2025 19:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences For Women Scotland v Scottish Ministers [2025] UKSC 16 is a judgment that has triggered great public discussion about the position of trans people in Great Britain (for an interesting discussion of…

Crash Wigley: For Women Scotland: A Case of Significant Silences ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/06/c...

06.05.2025 08:00 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 36    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 7
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Thrilled that my article 'What is (the) Matter with Climate Litigation?' has been published
Open Access in JLS: lnkd.in/gYCCiTck
I contest several new materialist approaches, and discuss how law conceives of β€˜matter’.
It is the opening of a larger project on law & nature.

29.04.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸš¨πŸŽ™οΈWith Trump’s chaos, β€˜The Tyranny of the Deal’ podcast with Patricia J. Williams could not be more relevant!

10.04.2025 00:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Glad you liked it. Thought it would resonate with your work …!

28.03.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Book cover of 'The Miracle of the Black Leg' depicting white man with transplanted leg of a black man from 15th century painting.

Book cover of 'The Miracle of the Black Leg' depicting white man with transplanted leg of a black man from 15th century painting.

Image of Patricia J. Williams

Image of Patricia J. Williams

Latest Countersign podcast with Patricia J. Williams – β€˜The Tyranny of the Deal: Race, Contract, and the Spirit of the Law’ - is now Live!

Listen where you get your podcasts (e.g. Apple podcasts, Spotify etc), or: countersignisapodcast.com

28.03.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Climate Justice through International Courts: Examples from the Pacific and Ukraine Welcome to the 2025 edition of the Joakim Dungel Lectures for International Justice.

I am at School of Law Gothenburg University to discuss climate justice and ecocide as part of annual Joakim Dungel Lecture alongside terrific speakers.

www.gu.se/en/event/cli...

21.02.2025 04:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Remains of a tree on the shoreline

Remains of a tree on the shoreline

remains of a home destroyed by force of tidal waters

remains of a home destroyed by force of tidal waters

Countersign podcast, 'When the trees have gone'-Veraibari and the Pacific in the ICJ, with international lawyers, Fleur Ramsay and Watna Mori is now live.
We consider impact of biodiversity loss on culture; and examine arguments at ICJ A.O.
Wherever you get podcasts - lnkd.in/gqZTX4V4

12.02.2025 11:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil InΒ his beautiful and powerful book,Β The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market CaptureΒ (2021), our friend, Emilios

Over the next week or so, we will be hosting a beautiful series inspired by Emilios Christodoulodis' immense work The Redress of Law, it will think about Simone Weil and how we can think with her to approach critical legal studies afresh criticallegalthinking.com/2025/01/13/f...

13.01.2025 09:51 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Latest Countersign episode on Marlen Haushofer's 'The Wall' (1963) with Dr Anna Richards (Birkbeck) is Live!
Delving into this deeply eco-feminist story - we explore ways of living and relating in catastrophic times.

Countersign is available wherever you get podcast - or at lnkd.in/gqZTX4V4

06.12.2024 13:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Episode 163: Justice - Hotel Bar Podcast The HBS hosts survey theories of justice from the ancients to the present.

Episode 163 just dropped and this week out co-hosts @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social @rickleephilos.bsky.social & @davidgunkel.bsky.social let their conversation about justice flow like a river!

hotelbarpodcast.com/podcast/epis...

06.12.2024 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
From Veraibari to The Hague: Frontline Communities Demanding Climate Justice
YouTube video by Nihi Indigenous Media From Veraibari to The Hague: Frontline Communities Demanding Climate Justice

I was privileged to accompany Watna Mori & Fleur Ramsay to Veraibari, Papua New Guinea, as they prepared for this ICJ case last month. So much riding on ICJ Advisory Op - not least the futures of many island states, peoples, and cultures. Watch and share the video below.

youtu.be/bYJzophZdgM?...

27.11.2024 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I was listening again to the prescient analysis by Prof Patricia Williams of race in the U.S, and Donald Trump's use of rhetoric and images. See my 2020 interview of her for Countersign: countersignisapodcast.com/podcasts/cul...

You can subscribe for free where you get podcasts

18.11.2024 10:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’ve just visited Veraibari village (pop. 1000), Kikori River, Papua New Guinea, with Pacific lawyers preparing submissions to ICJ Advisory Op on Climate.
This tattered house shows the force of climate devastation.
Countersign podcast with lawyers Watna Mori & Fleur Ramsay to follow soon.

12.11.2024 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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