Critical Legal Conference 2025
1 | Econormativities Convenors: Connal Parsley; Conor Heaney; Margaret Davies | 1.1 Introducing econormativity |
1.2 Econormative reframings | ||
1.3 More -than- human law in environmental contexts | ||
1.4 Econormativities: Beyond the state – and beyond | ||
1.5 Theorising ecologies for normativity | ||
1.6 Econormativities: Problems – Past and Future | ||
2 | Freeze ‘n’ Seize: Polar law, extraction and resistance Convenors: Romain Chuffart; Apostolos Tsiouvalas; Mana Tugend | 2.1 Resisting Technological Extractivism in the Arctic |
2.2 Antipodal stories of (non)extractivism | ||
2.3 Event + Book Launch | ||
3 | Disruptive technologies, diasporas and digital spaces: reframing the complex relationship between technology and social structures Convenors: Julia J.A Shaw and Yana Sliusar | 3.1 Disruptive Technologies 1 |
3.2 Disruptive Technologies 2 | ||
4 | Carl Schmitt’s Land & Sea on the Shores of the Postcolony: Critical Reflections Convenors: Julia Chryssostalis and Jaco Barnard-Naudé | 4.1 Carl Schmitt’s Land & Sea on the Shores of the Postcolony: Critical Reflections 1 4.2 Carl Schmitt’s Land & Sea on the Shores of the Postcolony: Critical Reflections 2 |
5 | Where’s the air? Rethinking Legal Geographies Beyond Land and Sea | Cancelled |
6 | The Revolutionary Constitution of Community on Land, Sea and Beyond Convenors: Marcus De Matos, Carys Hughes, and Simon Thorpe | 6.1 Revolutionary Constitutionalism 1: Constituting Utopia, Instituting Revolution |
6.2 Revolutionary Constitutionalism 2: State, Revolution and Constituted Power | ||
7 | Law and Process Convenors: Kyriaki (Korina) Pavlidou, Jessica Elias, Clair Quentin, and Conor Heaney | 7.1 Law and Process 1 |
7.2 Law and Process 2 | ||
7.3 Law and Process 3 | ||
8 | Hope from the margins: Reframing the law through decolonial possibilities Convenors: Irene Sacchetti and David Mckeown | 8.1 Hope from the Margins 1 |
8.2 Hope from the Margins 2 | ||
9 | Treasures Found on Land, Treasures Lost at Sea: From Mining Regulations to Laws of Salvage Convenor: Mirosław M. Sadowski | 9.1 Treasures Found on land, Treasures Lost at Sea: From Mining Regulations to Laws of Salvage |
10 | Dance/Law Convenors: Maria Federica Moscati, Sean Mulcahy | 10.1 |
10.2 | ||
10.3 Dance session | ||
11 | The Rule of Law, Colonialism, and Legal Silence: Rethinking Exception Across Land and Sea Convenor: Kiwako Murata | 11.1 Exception as Order |
11.2 Legal Silence | ||
11.3 Legal Narrative : Interrogating Dominant Narrative | ||
11.4 Legal Narrative: Reimagining and Rebuilding new narratives | ||
11.5 General Discussion on the Stream Rule of Law, Colonialism and Legal Silence | ||
12 | Wet Wet Wet – Water is All Around: Rethinking Legal and Spatial Approaches to Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity Convenors: Sara Del Monico, Mathilde Morel, and Thomas Baycock. | 12.1 Wet Wet Wet – Water is All Around: Rethinking Legal and Spatial Approaches to Marine Ecosystems and Biodiversity |
13 | Mutual dependencies, violence and vulnerabilities: Imagining International Law across terrains Convenors: Sudhir Verma and Saniya Khanna | 13.1 Mutual dependencies, violence and vulnerabilities: Imagining International Law across terrains |
14 | Future Tense: Legal Imagination in Times of Acceleration Convenor: Ksenia Lavrenteva | 14.1 Law Across Space and Time |
14.2 Algorithmic Power and Legal Futures | ||
14.3 Utopias, Dystopias and the Law-to-Come | ||
15 | Critical Legal Pedagogies Convenors: Illan rua Wall, Ruben Wissing, Katre Luhamaa and David Diallo. | 15.1 Civilization, Race and Empire |
15.2 Playing with Law | ||
15.3 The Future, The Law School | ||
15.4 Building Legal Ideas | ||
15.5 Irreverent Legalities | ||
15.6 Critique within the University | ||
16 | Law and Literature at Sea Convenors: Tony Ward, Katharine M Cockin | 16.1 Law and Literature at Sea 1 |
16.2 Law and Literature at Sea 2 | ||
17 | ‘The border crossed us’: Border Crossings and the Law Convenor: Emma Patchett | 17.1 Reconceptualising borders and exploring migration fictions |
17.2 Visible and invisible bordering effects and disruptive border practices | ||
17.3 Externalisation, securitisation, and resistant border identities | ||
18 | Surviving on Fragile Ground: Stateless Rohingyas, Collapsing Ecologies and Environmental Justice | Cancelled |
19 | General Stream | 19.1 Panel 1 |
19.2 Panel 2 | ||
19.3 Panel 3 | ||
19.4 Panel 4 |