Fields of Law

International Law

International law includes public and private forms, elements of international relations and global political economy.

Human Rights

Human rights is understood broadly to encompass rights-claims, both within international and domestic law. It also includes forms of rights which are not strictly 'legal' or do not use legal forms.

Family Law

Family law includes elements on child law, legal forms of 'the family', and other forms of social reproduction.

Property Law

We will explore the way property structures the legal imaginary, progressive forms of regulation and alternative conceptions of property. 

Legal Theory

This focuses on resources for teaching both theory and also theorising other forms of law.

Law and Technology

Law and Technology focuses on the ways in which law structures and is structured by contemporary technological developments.

Criminal Law

This section includes both criminal justice, but also other elements of the modern carceral system and state - like prison and police.

Child Law

Unlike the family law section this focuses primarily on the law relating to children.

Environmental Law

This includes traditional rules relating to 'nature' and 'animals', but also explores climate and other ways of relating to environment through law.

Transitional Justice

This focuses on the systems developed to shift from a state of confliuct to a state of 'peace'.

Law and Disability

This section focuses specifically on issues around 'disability', abelism and capcities.

Policing and Security

This section deploys as a critical perspective on issues like terrorism, borders, protest, as well as more standard criminological elements.

Theories

Critical Legal Theory

'Critical' is understood in the broadest sense. This is a way of seeing most (if not all) of what we publish.

Critical Race Theory

CRT explores the way in which race constitutes and is constituted by legal relations.

Law and Political Economy

This section focuses on the way law structures and is structured by flows and collections of the capitalist system.

Feminism

Includes legal feminism, but also forms of queer and transfeminsit theory

TWAIL

Third world approaches to international law