Critical Legal Teaching

Legal Theory

Platform Capitalism and Law

Platform Capitalism and Law

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Data have become the raw material of twenty-first-century capital accumulation, and the platform is the business model best designed to extract, analyse, and monetise that raw material. This has direct yet perhaps underappreciated consequences for legal thought. Law is not merely being disrupted by digital technology, it is being actively incorporated into platform capitalism’s extractive infrastructure. Platforms as Legal Architecture Srnicek (2017) identifies several distinct platform types...

Legal Education and Technology

Legal Education and Technology

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The industrialisation of the legal mind refers to the systematic process through which legal education conditions and trains students to think within narrowly defined, market-driven frameworks that prioritise rationality and efficiency over creativity, emotional engagement, and independent critical thought. The so-called “fourth industrial revolution”, characterised by digitalisation, artificial intelligence, and algorithmic governance, has intensified this process, creating new mechanisms of...

Emergency

Emergency

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Emergency is a key constitutional concept that is operative across constitutional orders across the world, in various forms ranging from written constitutional provisions especially devised for addressing situations of crisis, to articulated constitutional or purely institutional practices. Traditionally, emergency has been theorised as a matter of international communis opinio as a legal mechanism that is declared when states face a situation of ‘public emergency which threatens the...