Formerly the Critical Theory Research Group, we re-launched in September 2023 to better reflect the interests and expertise of our members, which can collectively be described as radical critique. We invite all colleagues interested in struggle, social movements and thinking law otherwise to join our research community.
Co-Directors: Darcy Leigh and Bal Sokhi-Bulley
Upcoming Events
Law and ‘Justice’ Roundtable
Date: Thurs 25 April 2024
Date: 3-5pm
Venue: tbc
Juliet Ibekaku-Nwagwu (Law) How do Financial Institutions’ Failure to Adequately Prevent the Laundering of Proceeds of Crime Deprave African Countries Resources for Sustainable Development?
Leonard Chimanda Joseph (Law) Leveraging The East African Community Laws In Combatting Statelessness: Lessons From The Ecowas
Vanessa Long (Law) Social class inequalities in the UK criminal courts
Amy McGourty (Law/Geography) Social justice through radical empathy: community archiving with Gypsies and Travellers in Sussex
Christina Miliou Theocharaki (organiser, Law/Geography) Strategic Legal Ambiguity as a biopolitical mechanism in the management of migration
FRE-Moot Room (tbc)
*Visiting Speaker, LSE Law School*
Date: Thurs 21 March 2024
Time: 3-5pm
Marie Petersmann (Assistant Professorial Research Fellow) Law and the Inhuman – the Inhuman in Law Co-sponsored with the Centre for Rights & Anti-Colonial Justice
Online Session Workers’ Resistance
Date: Thursday 07 March 2024
Time: 3-4.30pm
Ihab Maharmeh (Politics)
Palestinian Workers’ Resistance in the Age of Neoliberal Settler Colonialism
Ben Rogaly (Geography)
Internationalism & anti-imperialism in Yiddish songs of struggle
& resistance: Resources for our times?
Bal Sokhi-Bulley (Law)
The ‘human’ as sarbat da bhalla:
Garment factory workers & collective well-being in hostile environments
Join via Zoom: https://universityofsussex.zoom.us/j/96989503358
AH-G3 Struggle and Social Movements
Date: Thurs 1 February 2024
Time: 3-5pm
Ioannis Katsaroumpas (Law) Crossing the Rubicon: The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 as an Authoritarian Crucible Lara Montesinos-Coleman (IR) & Louise Wise (IR) Extractivism as Genocide
Brighton Reading Room: Book Launch
Date: Friday 19 January 2024
Time: 7.30pm
Lara Montesinos-Coleman Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the Politics of Human Rights (Duke Uni Press)
Guest Speakers: Hasret Cetincaya, Koshka Duff & Bal Sokhi-Bulley
Chaired by: Ben Rogaly
Co-sponsored with Centre for Global Political Economy & Centre for Rights and Anti-Colonial Justice