**LAUNCH OF THE NEW CENTRE FOR THE CRITIQUE OF LAW AND SOCIETY** Join us to celebrate our new research centre (CCLAS) and hear from thinkers in law and the humanities, examining both (legal) critique and the Critic. Full program and registration here: tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

Critiques and critics: never more necessary than now! Join us @qmul in London’s East End on Friday 23rd January afternoon for the launch of our new centre as we think/practice the mobilisation of critique anew

**LAUNCH OF THE NEW CENTRE FOR THE CRITIQUE OF LAW AND SOCIETY** Join us to celebrate our new research centre (CCLAS) and hear from thinkers in law and the humanities, examining both (legal) critique and the Critic. Full program and registration here: tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

Read and sign up to our new Centre's news letter here mailchi.mp/a4accb4df634...

Palestinian universities are facing an unprecedented threat, with systematic attacks and entire campuses in Gaza reduced to rubble. In short, this is scholastacide. Please donate and support the urgent work of Friends of Palestinian Universities cafdonate.cafonline.org/29528#!/Dona...

Palestinian universities are facing an unprecedented threat, with systematic attacks and entire campuses in Gaza reduced to rubble. In short, this is scholastacide. Please donate and support the urgent work of Friends of Palestinian Universities cafdonate.cafonline.org/29528#!/Dona...

--LAUNCH OF THE NEW CENTRE FOR THE CRITIQUE OF LAW AND SOCIETY-- Join us to celebrate our new research centre (CCLAS) and hear from thinkers in law and the humanities, examining both (legal) critique and the Critic. Full program and registration here: tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

--LAUNCH OF THE NEW CENTRE FOR THE CRITIQUE OF LAW AND SOCIETY-- Join us to celebrate our new research centre (CCLAS) and hear from thinkers in law and the humanities, examining both (legal) critique and the Critic. Full program and registration here: tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

Read and sign up to our new Centre's news letter here mailchi.mp/a4accb4df634...

**TOMORROW**

**TOMORROW**

Please join us @qmul.bsky.social on December 11th to hear Prof. Kathryn McNeilly discuss 'Intergenerational Equity, Climate Change Litigation and Time in the ECtHR' Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intergener...

THE STATE OF CRITIQUE Join us to celebrate the launch of the new Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

THE STATE OF CRITIQUE Join us to celebrate the launch of the new Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context) tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

We condemn the intimidation of our colleagues for talking about Israel's genocide ccccjustice.org/2025/11/19/w...

Yesterday the police raided the houses of our close colleagues in Defend Our Juries. They are facing very serious charges just for protesting against a genocide. We demand their immediate release. Read our statement here 👇👇 ccccjustice.org/2025/09/03/e...

"It is tricky to write this piece, however, for another reason. Mainly because, if I’m not careful, it could land me in prison." Tanzil Chowdhury's reflectons on the Proscription of Palestine Action for Critical Legal Thinking criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/10/r...

"It is tricky to write this piece, however, for another reason. Mainly because, if I’m not careful, it could land me in prison." Tanzil Chowdhury's reflectons on the Proscription of Palestine Action for Critical Legal Thinking criticallegalthinking.com/2025/07/10/r...

SCREENING: “To Kill A War Machine”, a documentary about @palaction.bsky.social by ‪@rainbow-collective.bsky.social‬ ⏰2 July, 18;30-21:00, 📍BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne 🎟 free, but register for access: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-kill-a-... 🤝 @cclas1.bsky.social

Tanzil Chowdhury writes for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social on 'Legal Workers and the workplaces of law' about his latest co-edited book (w/ @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social ) frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law' with David Scott Joined by @ruthfletcher.bsky.social and Tanzil Chowdhury as discussants. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis...

The Crisis of Modernity and the Turn to Time in International Law' with David Scott Joined by @ruthfletcher.bsky.social and Tanzil Chowdhury as discussants. Register here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-crisis...

In this week’s #Frontiers, 🌍 Borderlands section, Tanzil Chowdhury (QMUL) discusses a new book project on lawyers' working conditions pursued through a workers inquiry methodology. 📖 Read the full post here: frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

Tanzil Chowdhury writes for @oxfordcsls.bsky.social on 'Legal Workers and the workplaces of law' about his latest co-edited book (w/ @jamiewoodcock.bsky.social ) frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/legal-worker...

Australian Progressive Legal Studies is back with a call for papers on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarianism. If you want to help us understand WTF is going on, send us your abstract by the 11th of July. We are-ahem-low budget, so we can only help with domestic travel.

Can't wait to read these essays in detail, essays from the legal workers inquiry about legal work and organising.

NEW BOOK: LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY Read the first ever collection of essays from legal workers about legal work & organsing (Tanzil Chowdhury @jamie_woodcock eds.) Download for FREE (or buy hardcopies with all proceeds going to Notes From Below) notesfrombelow.org/issue/legal-...

**TONIGHT**

NEW BOOK: LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY Read the first ever collection of essays from legal workers about legal work & organsing (Tanzil Chowdhury @jamie_woodcock eds.) Download for FREE (or buy hardcopies with all proceeds going to Notes From Below) notesfrombelow.org/issue/legal-...

Thanks to @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social and all those who came this evening. Details of where you can get the book to follow...

**TONIGHT**

We're OFF! First up: Bruce Robin from @unison.org.uk talking about the #MercerCase and the #SupremeCourt case. #LawyeringForWorkersRights

New work with Gavin Sullivan in the German Law Journal! Informed by unique access, we trace the design of Cerberus: an AI-based risk tool deployed by the UK Home Office. Cerberus, we argue, enacts a governmentality of suspicion that evades our regulatory repertoire. cambridge.org/core/journal...

To all London colleagues... On 13 May, Alessandra Mezzadri will give the Annual Lecture of the Centre for Law & Society in a Global Context @QMUL: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory. Guaranteed to be 🔥🔥🔥. Details below. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/clsgc-annu...

Coorganising with QMUnison and @cclas1.bsky.social: Lawyering for Workers' Rights 7 May, 5-7pm, @qmul.ac.uk Mile End Campus & on zoom. Free, but register for your spot: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #WorkersRights #EmploymentLaw #TradeUnionism

We are launching our book LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY in London, hosted by @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social on 12th May, 6.30-8.00pm Register here gardencourtchambers.co.uk/event/free-b...

So looking forward to this at QMUL on Tuesday 13th May! Sure to be a tour de force in feminist and Marxist thought as informed by the plural radical analyses of social reproduction in the Global South Some reading for context here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📢 FREE BOOK LAUNCH - 'Legal Workers Inquiry: Worker Writing from Across the Sector in Britain' 📖⚖️ 🗓️ Monday 12 May, 6.30pm Join editors Dr Tanzil Chowdhury & Dr Jamie Woodcock to discuss future challenges for workers in the #LegalSector, with Sreyan Chatterjee. Book now 🔽 tinyurl.com/36syh5yd

We are launching our book LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY in London, hosted by @gardencourtlaw.bsky.social on 12th May, 6.30-8.00pm Register here gardencourtchambers.co.uk/event/free-b...

Thanks to @legalactiongroup.bsky.social for featuring our LEGAL WORKERS INQUIRY book with @notesfrombelow.bsky.social on the front cover. lag.org.uk/article/2167...

⚖️ Demands for justice are increasingly articulated in terms of law and legality. The 'Juridification of Justice' symposium asks what’s at stake and whether we should embrace or resist law as the language of justice Join us on 29 & 30 April at the Lauterpacht Centre Info at buff.ly/q915Za8

**MAY 2025 NEWSLETTER** Read (and subscribe to) our latest newsletter, incl. news on: -our annual lecture with @feministonmarx.bsky.social -solidarity with @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social -the first ever UK legal workers' inquiry -lawyering for trade union rights And more! mailchi.mp/4ac33269886c...

CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul.ac.uk 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005

Looking forward to hosting Libby Porter, Director of the Centre for Urban Research at RMIT for this seminar on housing crisis under settler-colonialism on Tuesday 8 April 3pm at Queen Mary Law @cclas1.bsky.social @statecrime.bsky.social. All welcome, pls join us www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/precarious...

**CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025** The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul.ac.uk 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005

**CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025** The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul.ac.uk 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005

We are enthusiastic signatories to this letter in support of @helyehdoutaghi.bsky.social Please consider signing it too openletter.earth/statement-of...

CLSGC Annual Lecture 2025: The Capitalist Laws of Social Reproduction in the Planetary Social Factory w/ Dr Alessandra Mezzadri @feministonmarx.bsky.social 📍 Peston Lecture Theatre, Graduate Centre, @qmul 🗓️ Thursday, 13th May ⏰ 5.30pm - 7.30pm Register here: tinyurl.com/mezzadri2005

Launch: Legal Workers’ Inquiry: Worker Writing from Across the Sector in Britain criticallegalthinking.com/2025/03/10/l...