Critical Legal Conference 2025

Critical Legal Conference 2025

Stream Descriptions

1Econormativities  
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
2Freeze ‘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
3Disruptive 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
4Carl 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
5Where’s the air? Rethinking Legal Geographies Beyond Land and Sea    Cancelled
6The 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  
 
7Law 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
8Hope 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
9Treasures 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
10Dance/Law 
Convenors: Maria Federica Moscati, Sean Mulcahy  
10.1  
10.2
10.3 Dance session
11The 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
12Wet 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
 
13Mutual 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   
14Future 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
15Critical 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
16Law 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
18Surviving on Fragile Ground: Stateless Rohingyas, Collapsing Ecologies and Environmental JusticeCancelled
19General Stream 19.1 Panel 1
19.2 Panel 2
19.3 Panel 3
19.4 Panel 4